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Vigils remember victims, vow action on gun violence
April 17, 2013Across the country, participants at gun violence vigils vowed to pressure the Senate to pass a bipartisan bill, mandating background checks for firearm purchases at gun shows and online.
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Senate immigration bill hailed
April 16, 2013Last week's unprecedented march on Washington D.C. to "Keep Families Together" through immigration reform has borne its first fruit, immigrant rights activists are saying.
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Today in labor history: Memphis 1968, we remember
April 4, 2013An assassin's bullet felled the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. King had come to Memphis to support a strike by the city's sanitation workers.
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Suit filed to stop Michigan’s emergency manager law
April 2, 2013What is happening in Michigan "is a threat to everyone in this nation," said Al Sharpton. "If you get away with it in Detroit, you can get away with it all over the nation."
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Thousands rally against school closings, vow “the fight has just begun”
March 28, 2013Thousands of teachers, parents, students and city residents protested the announcement by Chicago Board of Education that it will close 54 schools effecting 30,000 students.
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