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Letter from the heartland: Fried in capitalism’s frying pan
May 30, 2013At the Liars' Table you need thick skin and working-class sensibilities that the collective good and the common weal will overcome.
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“Devil in the Grove”: Must-read Pulitzer Prize winner
May 30, 2013In 1961, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In 2013, Gilbert King's "Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America " won...
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Today in labor history: Ford goes to revolutionary Russia
May 30, 2013On May 30, 1929, the Ford Motor Company signed a technical assistance contract to produce cars in the newly industrializing Soviet Union.
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Let’s give Guantanamo Bay back to Cuba
May 30, 2013Guantanamo will only be closed if there continues to be a broad-based movement that pressures the government to close the prison; but this closure should be only a first step in a longterm strategy.
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Protesters to Obama: “400,000, not one more deportation”
May 30, 2013CHICAGO - Twelve undocumented Chicagoans were arrested May 29 as they blocked rush hour traffic to demand that President Obama stop deportations.
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