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Nas lends star power to take on Fox News
July 24, 2008NEW YORK — Standing next to a large sign blaring “Fox News: Your Source for Racist Smears,” Hip Hop artist Nas along with ColorofChange.org and MoveOn.org recently delivered over 620,000 signatures demanding Fox News end biased...
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Obama trip spotlights new direction for U.S. foreign policy
July 24, 2008News analysis Barack Obama appeared to have scored a major success in projecting “commander-in-chief” ability and foreign policy savvy in his visits to Afghanistan and Iraq last week, and continued that path as he traveled to...
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AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
July 24, 2008AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka delivers a powerful speech at the Steelworkers convention in early July about racism and the 2008 elections.
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Economic meltdown: We need a new, green New Deal!
July 23, 2008“Recession” just doesn’t seem to adequately describe the hits workers are taking today. In the old days “recession” meant an economic downturn, unemployment and scrimping and cutting back until better days returned. The current super-recession is...
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Wage theft, Bush-style
July 23, 2008In an unlikely team-up, impartial investigators from the Government Accountability Office joined a low-income workers’ advocate at congressional hearings July 15 to tell lawmakers that President Bush’s Labor Department has failed to enforce minimum wage and...
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