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Workers Memorial Day to highlight jobs that kill
April 23, 2014Eddie Mallon is 70 years old. As a Laborers Local 147 member in New York, he worked as a sandhog for 44 years. He doesn't now, because that job - eventually - will kill him.
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Today in eco-history: Thoreau wrote “Wildness is the preservation of the world”
April 23, 2014On this day in 1851 Henry David Thoreau posits in an address to the Concord Lyceum his famous thesis that "in Wildness is the preservation of the World."
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Mike Giocondo, 85: Fighter for justice at home and abroad
April 23, 2014Mike Giocondo has died in the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida in Jacksonville one week after being admitted for heart failure.
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Fair trade “fashionistas” mark Bangladesh disaster with action
April 23, 2014This week marks the one-year anniversary of the worst disaster in clothing industry history.
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Fight for 15 movement hits Springfield, Missouri
April 23, 2014This Friday afternoon in Springfield, Missouri, a small group of fast food workers gathered in the meeting room of a public library to discuss their fight for a living wage.
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