National
In Virginia, military families mobilize
October 9, 2008NORFOLK, Va. — Stacie Burgess, wife of an active-duty sailor in the U.S. Navy, was in the crowd at an Oct. 4 rally of 20,000 in Newport News where Obama urged a last-minute push to register...
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The crisis of family debt
October 7, 2008There is broad consensus among labor unions and progressive organizations, economists and politicians that we need a bottom-up solution to the economic crisis. That is, the priority should be fixing Main Street, not Wall Street. The...
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Ohio: Reclaim America
October 7, 2008COLUMBUS, Ohio — Twenty thousand excited voters turned out at the Ohio State University campus here Oct. 5 to hear Bruce Springsteen perform and call for people to register, vote and “take back our country.” It...
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Union leader Trumkas speech on racism goes viral
October 7, 2008More than 266,000 You Tube views and growing Union workers are among tens of thousands using You Tube to reach tens of thousands of others with a powerful message against the effects of racism in the...
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OPINION: Midway Airport privatization — another rip-off of the public
October 6, 2008CHICAGO -- Without much public discussion, the Daley Administration is set to privatize Midway Airport for $2.5 billion. The new operators will be Midway Investment and Development Co., a consortium of transnational corporations: Vancouver based YVR...
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