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Amiri Baraka: 1934 – 2014
January 16, 2014"He did for the English syntax what Monk did with the chord. He was an original."
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Ruling by Labor Board is most damning ever against Walmart
January 16, 2014The NLRB asserts illegal activities in 14 states at 34 stores and shows that company executives conceived of an unlawful retaliation policy for store managers to execute.
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Today in labor history: Martin Luther King, Jr. born
January 15, 2014In a 1965 speech, King stated, "The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress."
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Today in labor history: SNCC founder Julian Bond was born
January 14, 2014Today people from around the country and globe are wishing the long time civil rights giant, Julian Bond, a very happy birthday.
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Today in labor history: The Pemberton Mill disaster
January 10, 2014In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children.
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Amiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79
January 10, 2014Amiri Baraka, one of the country's preeminent African American poets, playwrights and activists died Thursday at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness.
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On recession’s sixth anniversary, U.S. still down 8 million jobs
January 9, 2014Six years after the onset of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy needs nearly 8 million jobs to return to pre-recession health.
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Campaign intensifies to free Iranian trade unionists
January 8, 2014CODIR says it regards the current period as an important opportunity to put effective pressure on the government of President Hassan Rouhani.
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