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Floridians rally for free, fair elections
March 14, 2013Orlando residents rallied March 5 --the first day of the 2013 Florida legislative session - to demand "true election reform" that would make voting "free, fair and accessible to all."
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Graduate workers at UIC rally
March 14, 2013The Graduate Employees Organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago held a rally titled "Don't Make Us Strike" to protest the stalling of their negotiations for a contract by the administration.
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Immigration reform moving ahead in Texas
March 14, 2013On March 8th, the newly-elected progressive congressman from Dallas/Fort Worth, Marc Veasey, hosted a forum with local political and community leaders to talk about immigration reform.
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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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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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