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Huge anti-government protests sweep Lebanon
June 16, 2020Demonstrators marched demanding action over an economic crisis that has seen the currency collapse and yawning inequality.
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Supreme Court bans discrimination on the job against LGBTQ people
June 16, 2020Landmark ruling hailed by civil rights groups, the AFL-CIO and other unions.
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Remembering Connecticut community leader Juana (Wanda) Tirado
June 15, 2020Wanda was for several years a leader in the Connecticut District of the Communist Party. She is being remembered as not only a comrade but a mother, friend, and warrior.
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Facebook backs down from allowing ban on word ‘unionize’
June 15, 2020Zuckerberg told Fox on June 12 the app is in “early development” and said Facebook should never have used “unionize” as an example of words to censor. He did not announce other actions.
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Statues also die as racist memorials come down in Europe
June 15, 2020The first week of European and particularly French and Francophone protests in the wake of the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement concerned parallel police actions against French minorities.
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