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Tale of two cities: Toronto and Detroit
June 25, 2010DETROIT - Twenty thousand people attending the second U.S. Social Forum here this week have staged a peaceful takeover of a city in crisis.
Read moreBig Coal: damaging communities from Appalachia to Colombia
June 24, 2010Kentuckians for the Commonwealth presented "The Struggle for Justice in the Coalfields of Central Appalachia and Colombia" at the U.S. Social Forum.
Read moreSupreme Court ruling seen as threat to Bill of Rights
June 24, 2010A Supreme Court ruling may threaten rights of speech and association that had been considered firm since the failed McCarthy-era prosecution of Communist Party members.
Read moreTexas poor say “No more!”
June 24, 2010DALLAS -- Local activists with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Dallas Peace Center and others called a "Poor People's Rally" outside City Hall here, June 23.
Read moreGOP says no to jobless benefits, groups plan D.C. march
June 24, 2010How do you trim a bill to provide unemployment benefits to laid-off workers in the millionaires' club of the U.S. Senate?
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