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An unhappy anniversary of Citizens United

January 8, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Mid-January of 2014 marks the unhappy fourth anniversary of one of the defining moments in U.S. politics. No, not an election, but a court ruling.

Declare yourself #IdleNoMore

January 7, 2014 By Andrea Perkins

Idle No More has grown to become much more than just a slogan for a movement on environmental and Indigenous rights.

2013: Year of the bold new labor movement

December 20, 2013 By John Wojcik

This year organized labor joined with community, civil rights and other organizations and, together, they fashioned themselves into a new movement.

My top 10 for 2013: political, personal and fun

December 17, 2013 By John Rummel

A couple of weddings, a few marches, sangria and football in snow: looking forward to new adventures in 2014.

Today in labor history: KKK found guilty of conspiracy in death of Viola Liuzzo

December 3, 2013

Liuzzo, who came from a working-class Detroit family and had lived in the South as a child, traveled to Alabama after the Selma to Montgomery marches and the "Bloody Sunday" attack at Edmund Pettus Bridge.