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This week in women’s history: First American woman dentist
March 15, 2016"People were amazed when they learned that a young girl had so far forgotten her womanhood as to want to study dentistry."
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Latino voters in central Florida mobilize against Trump
March 15, 2016"What the campaign hopes to accomplish is voter outreach with Latinos because of the influx due to the Puerto Rican financial crisis: Folks are literally fleeing to the mainland."
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Labor backs two major actions aimed at restoring American democracy
March 14, 2016The AFL-CIO's executive council has endorsed two coming April actions aimed at wresting control over the nation's elections from corporations and billionaires.
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Immokalee Farmworkers: Boycott Wendy’s for human rights abuses
March 14, 2016The coalition wrote Wendy's a decade ago, saying the chain should pay decent wages and stop human rights abuses in the fields, following guidelines of the coalition's Fair Food Program.
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Case involving abortion clinics raises key constitutional rights question
March 14, 2016If Texas can make it nearly impossible for women to exercise their constitutional right to abortion, what other constitutional rights can government burden without justification?
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