Politics
2018 Midterms: Stakes for labor couldn’t be higher
August 31, 2018With Trump's disapproval rate up to 60 percent this Labor Day weekend, labor and its allies are focusing laser-like on the November Midterm elections.
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Maxine Waters and Nury Martinez on electing women and winning the midterms
August 30, 2018"What we have to do is organize—county by county and state by state, talking to the majority of people who don’t believe in the rhetoric that’s coming out of the White House.”
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California governor signs bail reform; gun control measures advance
August 30, 2018When Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 10, the California Bail Reform Act, on Aug. 28, the state took a step no other state has yet taken.
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Progressive Andrew Gillum the victor in Florida Dem gov primary
August 29, 2018He becomes the third African American the Democrats will field for governorships this fall.
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Focus on race and class at L.A.’s Left Coast Forum
August 28, 2018As one might expect, this second year of this city’s Left Coast Forum (LCF) kept coming around to the themes of race and class.
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