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Bandana Project protests sexual violence against women farmworkers
April 10, 2009CHICAGO — Farmworker and women’s rights groups came together here April 8, to protest sexual violence against farmworker women and other low-wage female immigrant workers in the U.S. Legendary farmworker leader Dolores Huerta and others spoke...
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Misplaced priorities? Where your tax dollars go
April 10, 2009As pundits and politicians dispute whether Pentagon spending changes announced by Defense Secretary Robert Gates this week amount to cuts, increases or neither, a new report says more than 37 cents of every taxpayer dollar went...
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Poll: Many Americans prefer socialism over capitalism
April 10, 2009This poll made our day. According to a recent Rasmussen Report, only 53 percent of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism.
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Voters tell lawmakers during break: ‘Pass the budget’
April 10, 2009WASHINGTON—House and Senate members returned to their home districts for their two-week spring break to face voter demands they enact President Obama’s budget providing many billions for “green jobs,” health care, and education. Americans United for...
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Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News’ militia media
April 10, 2009Source: Media Matters After a night of drinking, followed by an early-morning argument with his mother, with whom he shared a Pittsburgh apartment, 22-year-old Richard Poplawski put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed his guns, including an...
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