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The populist upheaval where is it headed and who can lead?
March 26, 2009The populist outrage over AIG bonuses, and bailouts that seem to pay off the perpetrators of the financial crisis — while millions are left out of work with no medical benefits, and unemployment benefits running out...
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Labor to Big Biz: You wont derail employee free choice!
March 26, 2009The labor movement remains undaunted in its push for the Employee Free Choice Act despite the defection of Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter, the only Republican member of the Senate who had supported the measure. Specter announced March...
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Death penalty losing favor arond the world
March 26, 2009WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (IPS) - Though most of the world is moving a step closer to the abolition of the death penalty, death sentences continue to be handed out in the hundreds around the globe, says...
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Pass the budget! Grassroots coalition demands action
March 26, 2009WASHINGTON—President Obama appealed to the people to throw their support behind his first federal budget to help pull the country out of the deep economic crisis. Speaking at his second White House news conference the President...
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Abuse raises question about law for disabled workers
March 26, 2009Reposted from A scandal rocking an Iowa town of barely 250 has ballooned into a statewide story. But it has national implications. Last month, FBI agents, social services and health department officials in Iowa converged on...
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