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Alabama passes nation’s most extreme anti-immigrant measure

June 9, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

Critics say the new law is worse than Arizona's SB 1070.

IKEA says it’s ready to talk

June 9, 2011 By John Wojcik

After receiving 20,000 complaints from people angry about how it treats its workers here, IKEA has agreed to meet with the union trying to organize them.

Bang your own head, not a seal’s

June 9, 2011 By Blake Skylar

Humane Society International and heavy metal musicians are calling upon the Canadian government to cancel the 2011 commercial seal killings.

Court says Colombian victims may sue Chiquita

June 9, 2011 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

It was, lawyer Paul Wolf observed, "One of the most detailed judicial opinions ever written in any U.S. human rights case."

Exonerated political prisoner, Geronimo Pratt, dies in Tanzania

June 9, 2011 By Joe Sims

Geronimo Pratt, a former leader of the Black Panther Party falsely accused, then imprisoned for 27 years, died June 3 in Tanzania.