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Civil rights lawsuit wins groundbreaking immigration policy
June 9, 2014After years of organizing against racist profiling by the East Haven Police Department, a landmark legal victory has been won.
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Labor comes out on top in San Jose primaries
June 6, 2014In San Jose, working people, and city workers in particular, have faced an antagonistic city government for the past eight years.
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Americans welcome Sgt. Bergdahl home
June 4, 2014After the negotiated release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, I called an old friend who spent years as a POW in Vietnam's prison camps to ask for his response.
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Latest GOP scheme to kill Saturday mail delivery killed in Congress
June 4, 2014In a joint letter to lawmakers, the leaders of the nation's four postal workers' unions called the House GOP's scheme "outrageous and misguided."
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House GOP approves hiring of lawbreakers as federal contractors
June 4, 2014The House GOP majority rejected a Democratic attempt to aid low-wage workers by ending federal government hiring of contractors who violate the law.
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