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Birds feeling the sting of bee-killing pesticides
July 15, 2014There's a lot of buzz around a recent study showing the toxic chemicals we use have a ripple effect farther up the food chain, causing birds to rapidly decline in number.
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Jose Antonio Vargas, immigrant rights leader, arrested by border patrol
July 15, 2014United We Dream Minority Affairs Council said Vargas was in Texas this past weekend in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives.
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Today in labor history: Start of the 1959 steel strike
July 15, 2014Members of the United Steelworkers of America went on strike against the major U.S. steel producers on July 15, 1959, the start of record 116-day steel industry strike.
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AFSCME grows by 90,000 since January
July 15, 2014The union sees its successful organizing campaign as a clear indication that face-to-face organizing is the proper response to what has been an onslaught of attacks on public service workers.
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Israeli government lied, manipulated teens’ deaths, to wreck Palestinian unity
July 14, 2014"Everybody knows now that Netanyahu and his co-bullies were aware the three young settlers were murdered on the first day they were kidnapped."
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