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Transition movement brings new environmental approach
August 9, 2012A new movement is afloat. The Transition movement blends aspects of the environment movement and broad grassroots organizing.
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LGBT hunger striker: I want the same rights as you
August 9, 2012Sometimes, it's a good thing to go hungry. Throughout the state, Michigan's "anti-equality environment" is being protested with a 100-day hunger strike.
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Today in labor history … no more Hiroshimas or Nagasakis
August 9, 2012The United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan today Aug. 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the only two cases of using a nuclear weapon against civilians.
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New rights pact signed as Colombia hunger strike continues
August 9, 2012The Labor Department, Colombia and the ILO signed another agreement to protect workers' rights, even as a hunger strike by Colombian workers continued.
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Steelworkers push for jobs plank in Dem platform
August 9, 2012A program to revitalize U.S. manufacturing should be put into the Democratic Party platform this fall, two Steelworker activists told the party's platform committee.
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