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Missourians fight to blunt health cuts

ST. LOUIS — “Hurting Missouri’s most vulnerable citizens is not the way to fix our state’s budget problems,” said Cathy Martarella at a March 21 press conference announcing the formation of Missourians for Health. The new...

Union rights for North Carolina farm workers

Mexican workers headed to the fields of North Carolina under the H-2A visa program can now stop by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee’s office in Monterrey, Mexico, to find out about their newly won rights. Opening...

Protesting 12-hour days

African American laundry womens strike of 1881

With slavery less than two decades behind them, thousands of African American home laundry workers went on strike for higher wages, respect for their work and control over how their work was organized. In the summer...

WORLD NOTES

Greek students support strikeJapan: Peace committee says, ban the Marines. The Japan Peace Committee on March 4 demanded that the government oppose the planned return to Okinawa of U.S. Marines from Iraq where they were involved...