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Pandemic Pride: LGBTQ struggle continues, learns from Black Lives Matter
June 26, 2020The early lessons of the movement are being re-learned: “Our own liberation is inextricably bound to the liberation of all oppressed people.”
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CDC chief Redfield: 24 million may have coronavirus
June 26, 2020WASHINGTON—The head of the federal Centers for Disease Control now estimates that 24 million people in the U.S., ten times the actual numbers recorded, may be ill from the coronavirus. CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield provided...
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UFCW: Tyson rivals Smithfield in its disregard for workers
June 26, 2020LOGANSPORT, Ind.—The now-infamous Smithfield pork production plant in South Dakota apparently has a “rival” of sorts among food processing factories that have become coronavirus pandemic hotspots. Welcome to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport,...
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As COVID-19 rages, America’s meatpacking workers battle for their lives
June 26, 2020Their sons and daughters, the Children of Smithfield, organize to save their parents, their children, and themselves.
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On California’s November ballot: Restoring affirmative action, letting parolees vote
June 26, 2020Though both measures needed to pass each house of the state legislature by a two-thirds majority, voters can approve them with a simple majority in November.
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