Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Water contamination big issue in Michigan governor’s race
April 13, 2018A class-action lawsuit by state and attorneys for Flint’s schoolchildren is settled agreeing to universal screening of Flint students for lead poisoning, including in-depth blood testing. But many say this is still not enough.
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Women workers score a court victory for Equal Pay Day
April 11, 2018Fresno County schools hired Aileen Rizo, but, basing its decision on her prior pay, paid her a starting salary $13,000 below a man in an identical job. That’s illegal.
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‘Woe unto those who legislate evil’: New Poor People’s Campaign launches
April 10, 2018Organizers plan weeks of peaceful civil disobedience.
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Fight for $15 blocks McDonald’s deal dumping labor law responsibility on franchisees
April 10, 2018A deal between Trump's NLRB and McDonald's would have absolved corporate headquarters of making sure their franchisees follow labor law.
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MLK’s economic ‘radicalism’ embraced at massive march and rally in Memphis
April 4, 2018There was a call to register and vote in 2018 to remove the “exploiters” in the White House and the Congress.
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Warning from Memphis: U.S. still far from Dr. King’s promised land
April 4, 2018“It’s a call to action, to fight poverty, state by state, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block – a call to action to get to the promised land."
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Politics, coalition-building take center stage at King commemoration
April 3, 2018“We’ve got a job to do, standing together, organizing, mobilizing and educating our communities, house by house, block by block, street by street."
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Speakers: Dr. King trended left before his assassination
April 2, 2018Panelists also pointed out the civil rights leader was increasingly radical in the months before his murder, on everything from denouncing the Vietnam War to launching the Poor People’s Campaign.
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