Politics
Primary victories for progressives in Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Idaho
May 17, 2018The raft of primaries on May 15 produced wins for four progressives in Pennsylvania, and one each in Idaho – running for governor -- and Nebraska.
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Documents expose right-wing effort to destroy public worker unions
May 16, 2018"The attacks on working people are real as they always have been. Unionized workers have long faced the wrath of the richest few."
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Trump and his GOP Congress: Complicit in crimes against democracy
May 16, 2018There is only one way out of this disaster. They must all be turned out of office this year in the 2018 midterm elections.
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Max Berrú, founder of the Chilean group Inti Illimani, dies
May 15, 2018Max Berrú Carrión was born in Cariamanga, Ecuador, June 5, 1942. He died May 1 at the age of 74 in Santiago de Chile.
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Remembering the 1968 East Los Angeles high school blowouts
May 11, 2018I had graduated a year earlier from Lincoln High School not knowing how to read and write proficiently. Now I was marching with others, shouting: "Education not eradication!"
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