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Video: Farmer-labor alliance reborn in Wisconsin
March 15, 2011March 12 the big tractors thundered into Madison, Wisconsin.
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Richard Trumka, 10,000 union members flood Maryland State Capitol
March 15, 2011More than 10,000 union members and supporters swarmed the State Capitol in here to protest proposed changes to teacher's pensions and to respond to the recent assault on unions in Wisconsin.
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Feb. jobless figures down but concerns rise over govt. cuts
March 15, 2011The nation's official unemployment rate declined ever so slightly for the third straight month in February, down 0.1 percent to 8.9 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week.
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Feeling kinship with Japan’s tsunami victims
March 15, 2011Posted prominently beside the road leading out of town at the mouth of the Dungeness River is a sign, "Tsunami Evacuation Route." In the past we paid little attention to it. But we are now.
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Miami protests anti-immigrant bills
March 14, 2011Opponents say if Republicans get their way on immigration in Florida, social, civil and even economic life in Miami and around the state could be severely disrupted.
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