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Top female organizers/activists create ‘Supermajority’ group
May 2, 2019"Consistently, we’re still treated as a special interest group...Our voices aren’t breaking through."
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Advocates use Pay Equity Day to lobby Senate for equality
April 4, 2019Advocates of equal pay for equal work used Pay Equity Day, April 2, to lobby the Senate to make pay equality for male and female workers a reality.
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Chicago elects gay black woman mayor and five avowed socialist aldermen
April 3, 2019Historic results raise hopes in a city battling for survival that it can experience a rebirth.
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Chicago about to elect its first African American woman as mayor
March 28, 2019Since both candidates take similar positions labor and its allies have divided their support.
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Joyce Provost Wheeler, distinguished teacher and lifelong activist, dies at age 78
March 25, 2019She was a gifted school teacher, union leader, international solidarity activist, and a member of the Communist Party USA.
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