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L.A. healthcare security workers demonstrate
March 14, 2013"No contract, no peace!" chanted over fifty demonstrators from SEIU/USWW (Service Employees International Union/United Service Workers West) here Mar. 12.
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Today in women’s history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer
March 14, 2013On this day in 1977 Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer passed away.
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Cuban 5 wives meet with UN human rights chief
March 14, 2013Adriana Perez, wife of Gerardo Hernandez, and Olga Salanueva, wife of Rene Gonzalez, requested UN intervention on human rights grounds to be able to visit their husbands (two of the five imprisoned Cubans known collectively as...
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Today in women’s history: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died
March 13, 2013On March 13, 1906, Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, N.Y., shortly after her eighty-sixth birthday.She was a pioneer leader of the cause of women's right to vote.,
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A fog of lies surrounding Chicago school closings
March 13, 2013Ninety percent of students affected would be African American, an action that would be another destabilizing blow to African American communities.
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