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The ‘Skip’ Gates arrest: Racism is more than an attitude
July 29, 2009The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop in Cambridge, not far from the racial profiling incident of Henry Louis Gates that triggered a national conversation on race and racism, and, being a bit...
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VIDEO Health care reform cannot wait
July 28, 2009Americans United for Change, a labor-backed coalition, and MoveOn.org are fighting Republican moves to scuttle health care reform with new TV commercials.
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150,000 South African workers walk out
July 28, 2009Original source: Johannesburg has been brought to a grinding halt with 10,000 local government workers marching to Mary Fitzgerald Square to reaffirm their union's demand for a 15 per cent wage increase and a housing subsidy....
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Minneapolis author bringing 1934 Teamsters strike to life
July 28, 2009ST. PAUL -(Workday Minnesota) After “Bloody Friday,” in 1934, when Minneapolis police brutalized about 60 striking truck drivers, an old woman drove up to the strike’s headquarters in a truck filled with supplies. It must have...
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Message from Kalispell: Give us health care reform NOW!
July 28, 2009Steffi Baca of Kalispell was one of hundreds of Montana constituents who rallied outside the district offices of Democratic Sen. Max Baucus July 24 to demand that he include a strong public option in the health...
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