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Songs, poems, speeches and sewing honor 100 years of L.A. garment work
March 6, 2017To mark International Working Women’s Day/Día international de la mujer trabajadora, the UCLA Labor Center, pairing with the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, sponsored an uplifting afternoon at the Labor Center’s building across from downtown’s MacArthur...
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Trump knows McCarthyism: His mentor helped create it
March 6, 2017There’s a witch-hunt on, apparently. And the unfairly targeted victim at the center of all the elaborate drama? The President of the United States.
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Women’s groups, several unions plan mass marches, potential women’s strike March 8
March 6, 2017"Organizers are calling all women and allies to come, for an end to workplace violence and harassment and to promote pay equity, one fair living wage, paid leave, and labor rights at work,” the coalition said.
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Small California city applauds its pro-immigrant Congresswoman
March 6, 2017Over 500 people packed the City Council chambers in Morgan Hill, a small city south of San Jose, for a town hall meeting with Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren.
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Colombian coal mine expansion imposes suffering on rural indigenous
March 6, 2017The peace agreement signed between the Colombian government and FARC rebels does nothing to stop the invasion of the Wayúu indigenous people’s land by international coal companies.
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