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Obama speech boosts health care reform

September 18, 2009

President Obama’s recent speech to Congress calling for an end to bickering, fear-mongering and insurance company lies, gave a powerful boost to health care reform with a new poll showing strong majority support for his package...

Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism’ is labor of love for working America

September 18, 2009 By Teresa Albano

On the year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, filmmaker and slacker hero Michael Moore gave a gift to working America: an explanation of what happened.In short: capitalism happened.

Labor movement ‘fired up’ in Pittsburgh

September 18, 2009 By John Wojcik

PITTSBURGH – Fourteen hour days, five hours of sleep maximum, grabbing a bite of fast food only now and then – it's no problem, so far, for 3,000 delegates, guests and supporters well into their second...

Coalition Maps ‘Jobs for All’ Conference in NYC Nov. 13-14

September 18, 2009

With the nation’s official jobless rate 9.7 percent and expected to surge higher than 10 percent, calls are growing for President Obama and Congress to create a federal jobs program to create millions of green, living-wage...

Juan Almeida Bosque: a hero with music in his soul

September 18, 2009 By Radio Havana Cuba

HAVANA - Cubans are mourning the death of Commander of the Revolution, Juan Almeida Bosque. He is a legendary character in the history of the Cuban Revolution, who always combined literature with music and gave us...