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“Truthful Tuesday”: Moral Monday movement spreads to South Carolina
March 21, 2014"A goal of our Truthful Tuesday protests was to get people talking, change the dialogue, and reduce the tea party influence on Republicans. That is happening," said Brett Bursey, director of the S. C. Progressive Network.
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Nationwide spring bus tours to culminate in marches on Washington
March 21, 2014The campaigns, for legalizing undocumented people and for raising the minimum wage, show labor's determination to get out in the streets and make unionists' voices heard.
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Writing on Amtrak
March 20, 2014Soon we'd be snaking through the freight yards and pulling into the Amtrak platform at L.A.'s Union Station. It was a dramatic opening scene - almost cinematic - filled with promise.
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Melba Hernandez, 93; leader of the Cuban Revolution
March 20, 2014On Mar. 9, Cuba and the world lost a remarkable revolutionary figure, Melba Hernandez Rey, age 93. The cause of death was complications of diabetes.
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Lawmakers unveil bill to hold employers responsible for supervisors’ sexual harassment
March 20, 2014A coalition of congressional Democrats introduced legislation to hold employers responsible for their lower-level supervisors' sexual harassment of workers.
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