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  • Apollo Alliance: green jobs are the future

    Apollo Alliance: green jobs are the future

    October 10, 2008

    SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — While financial calamity and soaring unemployment dominated media headlines last week, a nationwide coalition of labor, environmental, business and community organizations was making news of a different sort with its bold new...

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  • Labor-led coalition demands recovery plan for Main Street

    Labor-led coalition demands recovery plan for Main Street

    October 10, 2008

    Leaders of many of the nation’s most powerful unions have joined with heads of dozens of progressive community and political organizations to map out an economic recovery plan for Main Street. In a message titled “A...

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  • Largest U.S. fast aims to turn out voters

    Largest U.S. fast aims to turn out voters

    October 10, 2008

    LOS ANGELES — The largest hunger strike in U.S. history will begin Oct. 15, to call attention to voter mobilization, immigrant rights organizers say. One hundred dedicated activists will encamp at the historic heart of Los...

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  • Black Caucus: in the thick of making history

    Black Caucus: in the thick of making history

    October 10, 2008

    WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation held its 38th Annual Legislative Conference at the Walter Washington Convention Center here Sept. 24-27. The four-day event is one of the largest predominantly Black political gatherings in the...

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  • Latina girls magazine talks back to Palin

    Latina girls magazine talks back to Palin

    October 10, 2008

    Teen reporters respond to Palin's abstinence-only stance AUSTIN, Texas— Latinitas, (www.latinitasmagazine.org) the first digital magazine made for and by Hispanic girls, knows firsthand the effects of abstinence only sex-education, being America’s sub-group that experiences the highest...

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