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Day Laborers demand an end to deportations

February 5, 2014 By PAI

NDLON says current deportations, now approaching 2 million, run counter to U.S. history, have broken up at least 100,000 families, and damage the U.S. economy.

Unions jump into the controversy over Keystone pipeline

February 5, 2014 By John Wojcik And Marc Brodine

Environmental activists, among them many union members, are escalating their protests against approval of the pipeline.

Today in black history: Medgar Evers’ killer convicted

February 5, 2014 By Special to People’s World

White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in the murder of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred.

Major Duke Energy ash spill turns Dan River gray

February 5, 2014 By Art Cook

Duke Energy and local officials assure residents that the water is fine. End of subject. But the crisis isn't over.

Pete Seeger’s green activism in New York and New Jersey

February 4, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Seeger did much for New Jersey, taking a stand against ocean dumping . And he thought that a graceful boat would draw people to their forgotten riverfronts and imagine a different future for the Hudson River