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President Obama hosts event aimed at reducing mental health stigma
June 3, 2013President Barack Obama called for a more robust national discussion on mental illness, saying the time had come to bring the issue "out of the shadows."
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Michigan unions join environmentalists in call for infrastructure repair
June 3, 2013More than the climate is changing. A packed town hall meeting on climate change and infrastructure needs showed a growing level of concern and unity between labor and the environmental movement.
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Florida rally says: “Buzz off, Monsanto”
May 31, 2013Central Floridians turned out or the March Against Monsanto targeting the biotechnology mega-corporation and its role in the propagation of genetically modified seeds.
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Protesters to Obama: “400,000, not one more deportation”
May 30, 2013CHICAGO - Twelve undocumented Chicagoans were arrested May 29 as they blocked rush hour traffic to demand that President Obama stop deportations.
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Chicago joins 12-city protest against Koch Tribune grab
May 29, 2013CHICAGO - People from all over this city jammed the entrances of the Chicago Tribune today demanding that it not be sold to Koch industries, the company owned by David and Charles Koch, top fundraisers for...
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