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Colorado takes a giant step toward police reform
August 3, 2020The measure is part of a broad police accountability and reform legislation restricting the use of force by officers and banning chokeholds, signed into law by Governor Jared Polis (D) on June 19.
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Oregon hospital workers lose their union over one smudged ballot
August 3, 2020PORTLAND, Ore.--Back in February 2019, we reported on a razor-thin union election in which over 800 hospital support workers at Providence Portland Medical Center won a union by just one vote. Now we have to update...
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L.A. approves workers’ councils to enforce coronavirus safety measures
August 3, 2020The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor called the councils “the first step in a bold new solution to stop the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate any new outbreaks.” COVID-19 is the official name for the...
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Black women in the forefront of the political struggle
August 3, 2020Now Black women are mobilized and demanding an overdue return on their investment. Over the last several years and across America, Black women ran and won elections in historic numbers, from Congress to county school boards.
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Demands grow to free ‘Grace,’ Black teen jailed over homework
August 3, 2020A Michigan judge’s outrageous sentence is only one of the latest examples of the immoral school to prison pipeline destroying the lives of young people across America.
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