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Right-wing GOP Illinois Gov. Rauner plans to force state workers to strike
June 25, 2015Rauner's tactic is the latest in a nationwide campaign by the right, its business backers and its political puppets to trash workers, cut wages, destroy pensions and kill unions.
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Girlhood’s peaks and valleys: “Infinitely Polar Bear” reviewed
June 25, 2015Screenwriter Maya Forbes makes an auspicious directorial debut in this intensely personal film recreating her troubled Boston girlhood during the 1970s
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Today in Pride Month history: Homosexuals in Holocaust first publicly recognized
June 24, 2015In 1976, speakers at a public program in Hartford, Conn., told the history and paid homage to the homosexuals exterminated in the Nazi concentration and labor camps.
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Chicagoans rally for an end to racist violence
June 24, 2015After reading the names and short biographies of the slain, the mournful airs gave way to determination as the emcees brought forth speakers from the crowd.
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Indigenous news: WNBA and Native heritage, hula protest, lacrosse comeback
June 24, 2015Braids flying, sticks scooping, American Indian lacrosse players of all ages bring back a tradition that's more than a game.
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