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New oil drilling is not a solution
May 17, 2011There's a big fight happening in Washington over oil company subsidies.
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Carlos Santana slams Georgia’s anti-immigrant law
May 17, 2011Immigrant rights activists say legendary guitarist Carlos Santana hit a home run during his speech at Major League Baseball's annual Civil Rights Game in Atlanta, Georgia, May 15.
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Artists and screen actors take steps toward merging unions
May 17, 2011The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild took a step toward merging when AFTRA's board of directors met today by videoconference in Los Angeles and New York.
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Wisconsin voter ID bill slammed as vote suppression
May 17, 2011State AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt called it "an attempt to block the recall of unpopular GOP senators and to suppress turnout among constituencies who may tend to vote Democratic."
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Unemployment insurance under attack
May 17, 2011Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and in a number of states are out to kill, or at least cripple, unemployment insurance.
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