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Civil Rights community rallies around Employee Free Choice Act
April 19, 2009Original source: The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is gaining support across the country as well as on Capitol Hill, with more than 150 grassroots organizations joining President Obama, Vice President Biden, and congressional leaders in...
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Wage and Hour Division gets new leader
April 19, 2009Earlier this week, President Obama announced he intends to nominate Lorelei Boylan as administrator for the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and Thomasina Rogers as chairwoman of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission...
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1,500 Indian farmers commit mass suicide: Why we are complicit in these deaths
April 18, 2009(Reposted from www.alternet.org) The headline has been hard to ignore. Across the world press, news media have announced that over 1,500 farmers in the Indian state of Chattisgarh committed suicide. The motive has been blamed on...
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Texas governor threatens secession
April 18, 2009HOUSTON – Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has threatened secession from the union. “Texas is a unique place,” Perry declared. “When we came into the Union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would...
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Racial gap is widening, equality advocates warn
April 18, 2009Racial inequality is widening in the current economic crisis, leaders of social justice groups warned in a national phone forum this week. Under the theme “Race and Recession,” the Compact for Racial Justice forum, April 14,...
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