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Documents expose new ALEC scheme to kill clean energy

August 8, 2013 By John Wojcik

"It is clear ALEC is working in secret to push state policies in an extreme right direction, but working families are standing up to this agenda."

Enshrine voting right in the Constitution

August 7, 2013 By Jesse Jackson

On August 5, 48 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, announcing, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless."

Hiroshima memory stirs call for peace

August 7, 2013 By Joelle Fishman

Peace activists joined many thousands of similar gatherings worldwide to remember the horror of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.

Goodwill’s disabled workers join the fight for a living wage

August 6, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Disabled workers at Goodwill Industries have an on-line petition (by the Autistic Self Advocacy Network) demanding decent wages from the charity.

New Senate bill would virtually end USPS

August 6, 2013 By Bill Brickley

WASHINGTON - Sen. Tom Carper has moved the United States Postal Service one big step closer to extinction this weekend by introducing his new Postal Reform Act (S. 1486).