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Hundreds arrested in pro-environment civil disobedience
September 7, 2011The demonstration is the longest sustained civil disobedience action since the civil rights movement and the largest since 1977.
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Public support grows for government jobs program
September 7, 2011"Let's make our country what it should be," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday.
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Labor Day protestors demand jobs and fair trade deals
September 7, 2011Steelworkers and 1,000 others protested against a new free trade agreement being negotiated for the Pacific Rim countries.
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Federal judge temporarily halts Alabama anti-immigrant law
September 7, 2011A federal judge temporarily halted Alabama's anti-immigrant law - a measure so harsh that it makes Arizona's notorious law and its prejudice against Hispanics look mild by comparison.
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Hotel workers animate San Francisco’s Labor Day
September 7, 2011Hundreds of hotel workers and their supporters thronged through the heart of downtown Sept. 5, marking Labor Day with a lively, noisy march.
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