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Today in labor history: Tule Lake internment camp opens
May 27, 2014Tule Lake was the largest and most conflict-ridden of the ten War Relocation Authority camps used to carry out the government's system of exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese descent.
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Sens. Warren and Sanders, Rev. Barber inspire at New Populism Conference
May 27, 2014The "new populism" spoken of at the conference was described, defined and delivered with hope and realism.
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Fixing U.S. intervention capabilities in Cuba
May 23, 2014What people think seemingly has little effect on ending what Cubans say is the longest and cruelest economic blockade in human history. Polls show overall U.S. disapproval, Cuban-Americans included.
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U.S. ranks with Haiti, Iran and Mexico on workers rights
May 23, 2014"We cannot and we will not stand silent while workers are impoverished through the supply chains of big business and attacked by their own governments."
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Massachusetts educators elect a new progressive union leadership
May 23, 2014Madeloni ran on a platform of maintaining and strengthening union rights, labor solidarity, organizing, and opposition to the privatization of public education and to high-stakes testing.
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