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Obama, FCC expanding public Wi-Fi
February 5, 2013The move is intended to decrease network congestion and enhance media (such as streaming HD videos). It is also an important shift, however, in the direction of free Internet for everyone.
Read moreFaith groups to Publix: Fairness for farmworkers
February 5, 2013"Knowing that our brothers and sisters who are farmworkers are not being treated fairly - their working conditions are abhorrent, we're standing with them today."
Read moreAusterity busting bill introduced
February 5, 2013The Progressive Caucus bill, called the Balancing Act, invests in job creation and calls for paying for those investments with defense cuts.
Read moreWill Republicans keep blocking Violence Against Women Act?
February 5, 2013Earlier, Republicans blocked reauthorization because they opposed extending protections to 30 million women who are undocumented immigrants, Native Americans, LGBT, or students on campuses.
Read moreToday in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule
February 5, 2013In 1866, Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to a bill requiring 40 acre plots be parceled out to former slaves from both confiscated and public land in the former slave South.
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