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Ohio governor candidate issues working-class program
August 18, 2014Fitzgerald showed the stark difference between his program and the the anti-labor, anti-civil rights, anti-woman, anti-local government, anti-public education policies of the incumbent.
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Transgender people win protections in Orlando, Florida
August 18, 2014"Gender identity" is now a protected category in Orlando's human rights ordinances along with age, color, handicap, marital status, national origin, race, religion and sex.
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Today in labor history: 19th amendment, securing right to vote for women, ratified
August 18, 2014America's woman suffrage movement was founded in the mid 19th century by women who had become politically active through their work in the abolitionist and temperance movements.
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Labor journalist blames U.S. policy for child immigrant crisis
August 18, 2014U.S. policies for decades forced kids and many of their parents to flee, because the U.S. made Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dangerous places.
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Across the country: Peaceful protests against police killing in Ferguson
August 15, 2014Everywhere the message was the same: There is no excuse in the United States of America for rifles and heavy weaponry to be aimed at people exercising their right to peaceful protest.
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