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Peekskill remembered
September 5, 2009The concert scheduled for Aug. 27, 1949, in Peekskill, N.Y., was supposed to be routine. Though it had been organized by People’s Artists, a brand new spin-off organization of the People’s Songs formation that had launched...
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EPA will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant
September 5, 2009The Environmental Protection Agency is set to declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, EPA head Lisa Jackson announced on Monday. That action would trigger federal regulation of industrial CO2 sources like coal-fired power plants, cars, refineries...
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Time to end obsolete policies on Cuba
September 5, 2009When President Barack Obama pledged a more diplomatic United States that respects the sovereignty of other nations, I, along with 142 other U.S. citizens and residents took him up on that claim.
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Two Labor Day wishes
September 5, 2009If two big things could happen this fall we’d have a shot at re-creating the middle class society workers enjoyed in the past.
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Labor-led alliance pressures Wal-Mart for change
September 5, 2009Unveiling a new "American values agenda" this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union launched a new coalition of labor unions, worker advocacy groups, environmental groups, faith-based communities and consumer protection organizations to "hold Wal-Mart...
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