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Community United demands answers on hospital merger
June 6, 2012Workers, local clergy and women's groups demand answers about the sale of non-profit hospitals to a for-profit joint venture firm from Texas.
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Extremism, foreign intervention dangers increase in Mali
June 6, 2012The political situation in the West African country of Mali has taken a significant turn for the worse.
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Landmark desegregation decisons made by U.S. Supreme Court
June 5, 2012On June 5th 1950 the U.S. Supreme Court handed down two decisions that were influential in determining the outcome of Brown v. Board of Education: Sweatt v. Painter, and McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents. The former...
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GOP defeats equal pay, continues war on women
June 5, 2012WASHINGTON (PAI)--For the second time in three years, a Republican Senate filibuster threat killed the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation designed to bring the U.S. towards the goal of equal pay for equal work.
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Iran rights group demands release of political prisoner “hostages”
June 5, 2012The Islamic Republic's political prisoners are hostages held to terrorize the nation, says UK-based Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People's Rights.
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