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Why picket lines matter
January 8, 2013I spent so much time on picket lines as a kid that when I thought my dad's rules were too strict, I would run to build a sign on a stick and try to talk the...
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Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history
January 8, 2013Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.
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Today in labor history: New Orleans slave uprising
January 8, 2013The revolt consisted of somewhere between 300-500 people.
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GOP desperate to kill any further taxes on the rich
January 7, 2013The Republicans are going even further, however, threatening that unless Social Security and Medicare are cut, the GOP might kill the entire economy.
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Today in labor history: Labor radical Tom Mooney freed
January 7, 2013Radical labor activist Tom Mooney, accused of a murder by bombing in San Francisco, was pardoned and freed after 22 years in San Quentin.
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