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Bulldozing butterflies for Trump’s border wall
February 7, 2019Construction equipment has arrived to build a border wall through the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, a protected habitat for more than 200 species of wild butterflies and other unique wildlife.
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With Lopez Obrador in, thousands of workers walk out
February 7, 2019The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as president of Mexico has raised the hopes and expectations of millions of Mexican workers. There could be no better evidence of this than the strike of tens of...
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Union leader Shearon on shutdown: No private sector bosses as bad as Trump
February 6, 2019Shearon, whose union represents both public and private sector workers – including thousands of federal immigration judges and tens of thousands of Boeing aerospace workers – produced a pungent comparison between Trump’s lockout and lockouts launched...
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Donald Trump’s speech goes low, Stacey Abrams’s response goes high
February 6, 2019That, in essence, is the contrast between Trump’s 92-minute speech from the U.S. House rostrum and Abrams’s shorter, positive, reply from an Electrical Workers union hall in Atlanta.
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CPUSA chair responds to Trump State of the Union speech
February 6, 2019John Bachtell, the national chair of the Communist Party USA, offered his party’s response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in a live video presentation on Feb. 5, 2019.
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