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Video: Chicago teachers protest charter expansion
June 1, 2015Teachers union activists assembled at the Chicago Public School Board before classes began to protest plans to expand for-profit charter schools.
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The fetishism of commodities: “Mad Men,” capitalism, and its discontents
June 1, 2015What made "Mad Men" arguably the greatest dramatic series in American TV history is that there was a method to its madness.
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Confederate flag buried belatedly in Florida
June 1, 2015A park was the scene here on Memorial Day (May 25) of a symbolic ceremony of burial for the Confederate flag.
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Cuban workers caring for Nepal quake victims
June 1, 2015A new chapter in the story of Cuba's outreach to people began with the arrival in Katmandu, Nepal of 49 Cuban health care workers.
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Today in history: LGBT Pride Month!
June 1, 2015Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, being subjected to routine anti-homosexual harassment, fought back in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
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