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Moral Monday leader a hit at AFT convention
July 16, 2014Teachers heard the iconic leader of the Moral Monday movement in North Carolina characterize them as part of a movement fighting for the very soul of the nation.
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Elizabeth Warren stumps for Tennant in West Virginia
July 15, 2014Ms. Tennant is in a tight race with outgoing Republican Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito for the seat. The race could be a decisive one in this year's national battle for control of the U.S. Senate.
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Birds feeling the sting of bee-killing pesticides
July 15, 2014There's a lot of buzz around a recent study showing the toxic chemicals we use have a ripple effect farther up the food chain, causing birds to rapidly decline in number.
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Jose Antonio Vargas, immigrant rights leader, arrested by border patrol
July 15, 2014United We Dream Minority Affairs Council said Vargas was in Texas this past weekend in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives.
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Today in labor history: Start of the 1959 steel strike
July 15, 2014Members of the United Steelworkers of America went on strike against the major U.S. steel producers on July 15, 1959, the start of record 116-day steel industry strike.
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