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MoveOn.org speakout: No tax cuts for billionaires

December 3, 2010 By Tim Wheeler

“No Tax Bailouts for Billionaires” was the message of thousands of MoveOn.org members who joined street corner “speakouts” outside congressional district offices across the nation Dec. 2.

Workers invoke eminent domain to keep plant open

December 3, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg

For the first time ever, eminent domain may be used to keep a factory running and workers on their jobs.

Despite Christmas hiring, unemployment rate jumps

December 3, 2010 By John Wojcik

Just as Nero fiddled while Rome burned, the GOP pushes for tax breaks for billionaires as America's economy crumbles.

Civil unions OK’d in “heart of heartland” Illinois

December 3, 2010 By Teresa Albano

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - "Exhaustimicated!" that's what Equality Illinois' Rick Garcia told Chicago-based Windy City Times, after this week's historic two-day vote in the Illinois state legislature in favor of same-sex civil unions.

Out of work bricklayer tells lawmakers what “hell” is like

December 3, 2010 By Mark Gruenberg

The 13-year veteran of Bricklayers Local 1 in New York has been out of work since October. And the West Babylon, Long Island, resident, who provides for his wife, two kids and 86-year-old mother who lives...