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Today in labor history: first legal protest by slaves in New York
February 11, 2014On this date in 1644 the first "legal" protest by Africans in America occurred.
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Sudan: Colonialism’s dead hand
February 11, 2014Hopefully the recent ceasefire agreement between the warring parties in South Sudan will halt that country's downward spiral into civil war.
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Minnesota oil spill largely unreported, spills by rail hit new high
February 11, 2014Here's something troubling for environmentalists to contemplate: Have oil spills become so common, so normal, that the media only bothers to highlight the largest-scale disasters?
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IBEW member hits the ice in Sochi
February 11, 2014Journeyman electrician Ekaterina Pashkevitch is taking to the ice in Sochi, Russia, this week, playing center for the Russian women's Olympic hockey team.
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My patients suffer because GOP rejects Medicaid expansion
February 11, 2014While it is common knowledge that Missouri did not participate in Medicaid expansion in 2013, it is less widely known how this decision impacts thousands of poor and working class Missourians.
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