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Gov’t. workers: Cuts would trigger new recession
February 15, 2013Automatic budget cuts would have a devastating impact on vital services all over the country.
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Colombian senator: U.S.-backed labor rights plan a flop
February 15, 2013The labor action plan for workers' rights added to the controversial U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement is failing, say a Colombian senator and union leaders.
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Today in black history: National Negro Congress formed
February 14, 2013On this day, in 1935 the National Negro Congress held its first convention in Chicago. 817 delegates attended. The group grew out of a conference at Howard University on the economic status of African American Americans...
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One Billion Rising fights domestic violence, rape culture
February 14, 2013One in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. Since there are three billion women on the planet, one billion women will experience such outrages.
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Va. election season underway
February 14, 2013All 100 seats in the 100-member House of Delegates, lower house of the Virginia General Assembly (the state legislature) and some local offices are up for grabs.
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