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Students: Obama loan relief plan good first step, more needed
October 27, 2011Student activists say the president's executive order on the issue is not nearly enough to tackle the larger student debt crisis.
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Oakland demos spark call for nonviolence & end to repression
October 26, 2011In the wake of the early morning police eviction of Occupy Oakland protesters from their encampments Oct. 25, confrontation between protesters and police came to a head in the early evening after protesters regrouped at the...
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Occupy Oakland at the crossroads
October 26, 2011Getting lost is the goal of the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement, which is to make the banks accountable to the people and pay for the mess they created.
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California car wash workers win union contract
October 26, 2011On Tuesday, workers at Bonus Car Wash in Santa Monica, Calif. reached a contract, becoming the first-ever Southern California car wash to unionize, reported the AFL-CIO.
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Labor group and an Ohio town call for new immigration approaches
October 26, 2011A town in Ohio says that by rolling out a welcome mat for immigrants, rather than persecuting them, it can help solve the immigration problem and fix its economy at the same time.
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