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Behind the inflammatory video, a vast right-wing network
September 14, 2012The anti-Islam video linked to the September 11 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya originated in a web of U.S. right-wing extremists.
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Workers for Walmart subcontractor forced to strike over warehouse conditions
September 14, 2012The strike followed years of lousy working conditions -- including 100-degree-plus interior temperatures -- and management refusal to even meet with them on the problems, much less listen.
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Today in labor history: Textile workers ambushed
September 14, 2012The AFL-CIO expanded Wiggins' grave marker in 1979, to include the phrase, "She died carrying the torch of social justice."
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In Chicago, a movement is born to reclaim public education
September 13, 2012Parents, students and community groups, whose pent up outrage at school privatization dictated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been unleashed by the strike, joined teachers on the picket lines.
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West Nile virus worsening with climate change
September 13, 2012Outbreaks of the sometimes-fatal West Nile virus across the United States have intensified, making this one of the worst years for the mosquito-borne disease.
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