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Netroots activists push for immigration reform
August 16, 2009PITTSBURGH PA - 'You all are the folks we need on the ground raising awareness about enforcement and detention in our immigrant system,' said Jacki Esposito, from the Detention Watch Network, here at the national Netroots...
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Thompson picks up endorsement of powerful NYC union
August 15, 2009NEW YORK — In a development with big implications for New York’s mayoral race, AFSCME District Council 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts announced the union’s decision to endorse Democrat Bill Thompson for mayor. The announcement came...
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Howard Dean tells Netroots: We’re going to win a public option
August 15, 2009PITTSBURGH PA – 'The only health care reform worth doing is the public option. If you give away the public option you have no health care reform. It is a real choice for the American people,'...
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Labor seeks help from civil rights group
August 15, 2009Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is urging the NAACP to help the labor movement organize workers – particularly African Americans – after the expected passage this year of the Employee Free Choice Act. In his...
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More job stimulus desperately needed
August 15, 2009Economic reports for July showing unemployment rising, retail sales falling and mortgage foreclosures at an all time high, touched off warnings from economists: only stronger action by the federal government to create jobs, extend unemployment benefits...
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