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New legislation weaponizes Texas classrooms
May 10, 2011The Texas Senate approved, in a 19 to 12 vote, a bill to allow the carrying of concealed handguns on public college campuses.
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IKEA: Union-busting is “how American system works”
May 10, 2011DANVILLE, Va. - IKEA is known round the world for being a fabulous employer but its first U.S. plant is a modern sweatshop with poverty wages, forced overtime and mandatory "educational meetings" for anyone who hints...
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“Study-in” becomes “lock-in” and a professor speaks out
May 10, 2011NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - On April 27, nine students launched a "study-in" at the office of Rutgers University president Richard L. McCormick. The students soon found themselves in a kind of "lock in" as they were...
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Power surge: Record number of Latinos voted in 2010
May 10, 2011A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center reported that a million more Latinos voted in 2010 than did so in the 2006 midterm election.
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Baltimore May Day: Made in the U.S.A.
May 10, 2011Demonstators denounced corporate and Republican union busting and called for a stepped-up fight to defend union rights, Social Security, and Medicare.
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