U.S.
Courts block Voter ID schemes in Texas and Wisconsin
October 10, 2014A federal judge likened Texas' strict voter ID requirement to a poll tax meant to suppress minority voter turnout and struck it down less than a month before Election Day.
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Teamsters’ teach-in spotlights environmental injustice at hazardous Missouri landfill
October 10, 2014The landfill contains 8,700 tons of un-containerized radioactive waste and there's a fire at the site.
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Fast food workers to travel to Ferguson for weekend protests
October 9, 2014Members of the Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago will travel with other community groups to Ferguson, Mo., on Friday, October 11.
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Voter ID laws tossing hundreds of thousands off rolls
October 9, 2014Exclusion from the voting rolls this fall may affect countless close and key political races, such as the neck-and-neck Wisconsin gubernatorial battle.
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“Put the middle class first” bus tour rolls into Connecticut
October 9, 2014Lt. Gov. Wyman recalled that the day after the "Raise the Minimum Wage" bus tour, "we were able to raise Connecticut's minimum wage so people would not live in poverty."
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