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SEIU’s Medina predicts more Latino voter activism next year

November 15, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

Service Employees Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina, a skilled organizer and one of the most influential Hispanic Americans in the labor movement, predicts Latino voters will have heightened activism in next year's election.

People of New Jersey deliver big losses to Christie

November 14, 2011 By Lee Dlugin

New Jersey voters dealt the tea party a resounding defeat in state elections November 8.

Police again evict Occupy Oakland’s tent city

November 14, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Before dawn this morning, Nov. 14, police in riot gear moved in to evict Occupy Oakland campers from their tent city in a plaza in front of City Hall.

Greenhouse gases building up in the atmosphere

November 14, 2011 By Thomas Riggins

Even as scientists around the world continue to warn that the build up of greenhouse gases, especially CO2 from carbon based fuels, is leading to drastic changes in the earth's climate the major international oil and...

Health care reform law already helps uninsured

November 14, 2011 By Marilyn Bechtel

Advocates say nearly three-quarters of California's four million people with no health coverage are people of color, with Latinos making up nearly 60 percent of the total uninsured.