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Wisconsin protesters: You couldn’t wait us out, so, you locked us out!

March 4, 2011 By John Wojcik

One nurse summed up the legal victory to keep Wisconsin state Capitol open: "What Walker has done is sad. So we came dressed for a funeral but we are ready to dance. We expect that we...

Defiant protesters still occupy Wisconsin Capitol

March 3, 2011 By John Wojcik

Protesters still occupy the state Capitol, while thousands demand to be let in.

16,000 marched on Wisconsin’s capital fighting for democracy

February 16, 2011 By Michael Synowicz

A country's attitude toward its unions is a good measure of their attitude toward democracy - their real attitude toward true democracy.

Honduras powerbrokers beat up on the poor

February 14, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

In the year after Porfirio Lobo became president of Honduras the disaster for the Honduran people has become clear.

Filibuster curbs defeated

January 28, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

A campaign backed by organized labor, to curb the power of Senate minorities to halt virtually every piece of legislation by filibustering, went down in flames in the tradition-bound chamber on Jan. 27.