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Rev. Barber: Poor people can produce top to bottom change on Election Day

September 15, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

New Poor Peoples Campaign has a plan to produce that change in the coming election.

Ashland, Wisconsin rallies for student safety, demands end to SRO program

September 15, 2020 By Elise Kehle

The community is urging the removal of Ashland High School’s SRO, or “School Resource Officer.” These are heavily armed policemen deployed in schools, ostensibly in response to the rise of modern school shootings.

Trump denies reality again, doesn’t ‘think science knows’ if climate change real

September 15, 2020 By Jonathan Lemire, Aamer Madhani, Will Weissert And Ellen Knickmeyer

With the smell of fire in the air, Trump ignored the scientific consensus that climate change is playing a central role in historic West Coast infernos.

Fire Fighters demand Trump release funds for 9/11 victims’ care

September 15, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Democratic New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler calls upon the administration to “stop betraying our nation’s heroes. Shame on them.”

United Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’

September 14, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...