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Union leaders announce ‘big improvements’ in Senate’s health care tax plan
January 15, 2010Leaders of America's major unions, coming out of intense negotiations with the president and congressional leaders, said late yesterday that they were close to winning big improvements for workers in the health care reform legislation nearing...
Read moreGuitars should be a means to liberation, not exploitation, says Rage’s Morello
January 15, 2010Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Street Sweeper Social Club, alongside musician Serj Tankian, of alternative metal band System of a Down, joined representitives of Korean guitar workers in a protest against Cort...
Read moreUN panel exonerates Guatemalan president in bizarre murder-suicide
January 14, 2010On Jan. 12, there was a bizarre twist in the investigation by a special UN panel of the death of a right-wing attorney last year. According to the UN sponsored International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala,...
Read moreProsecutors target Northwestern University journalism students
January 14, 2010CHICAGO, Ill. – Cook County prosecutors here have issued a subpoena seeking the grades and emails of journalism students at Northwestern University. The students conducted a three-year investigation that they say found a man serving a...
Read moreLandmark marriage equality trial opens in San Francisco
January 14, 2010A San Francisco courtroom has become the latest venue in the nationwide campaign for marriage equality.
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