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California prisoners’ hunger strike enters seventh week
August 21, 2013As a hunger strike by California prison inmates entered its seventh week Aug. 19, authorities said some 130 inmates in six prisons are refusing meals.
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Today in labor history: First national meeting of African Americans
August 20, 2013On August 20, 1830 the National Negro Convention held its first meeting in Philadelphia. The event was chaired and led by Bishop Richard Allen.
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Idaho blackened by brushfire
August 20, 2013The 104,000-acre Beaver Creek wildfire has been appropriately described as a "beast." What most of the media is not reporting is the disaster's tie to climate change.
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Join LA “listening session”: Working people must be heard!
August 20, 2013The AFL-CIO, in advance of its September convention, has issued a call for "listening sessions," a way for working people and allies to come together and add their creative ideas and strategies.
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Booming Silicon Valley economy hides rising social inequality
August 20, 2013While fueling a new source of profits for Wall Street, working families are not enjoying the benefits of California's Silicon Valley economic resurgence.
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