women
Walmart moms challenge Walmart chairman
June 2, 2014Opening a new front in their long campaign to improve Walmart, the "Walmart moms," members of OURWalmart, are taking on the company's chairman.
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Author, poet, activist Maya Angelou dies at age 86
May 28, 2014Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement.
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#Bring our girls home
May 9, 2014A wave of revulsion has spread worldwide over the news of the kidnapping of young girls from a school at Chibok, in Borno State in Northwestern Nigeria by the violent Boko Haram sect.
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Our Walmart wins some victories for pregnant workers
April 10, 2014It wasn't good luck that brought about workplace changes at Walmart. It was the hard work and the mobilization of workers and community supporters across the nation in Our Walmart.
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Rallies demand equal pay
April 10, 2014How unequal are women's wages? Women in the U.S., on average, are now paid only 77 cents to every $1.00 of men's average pay.
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