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Coalition Maps ‘Jobs for All’ Conference in NYC Nov. 13-14
September 18, 2009With the nation’s official jobless rate 9.7 percent and expected to surge higher than 10 percent, calls are growing for President Obama and Congress to create a federal jobs program to create millions of green, living-wage...
Read moreCNN’s Lou Dobbs in bed with hate group
September 15, 2009Hate-based, anti-immigrant propaganda has poisoned not only the health care debate but is also distorting the public discussion about immigration reform, charged a group of civil rights, immigration reform advocacy and media watchdog organizations this week.
Read moreUS distributors boycott “Creation,” movie on Charles Darwin
September 15, 2009A new British film following the life of evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin called “Creation” has stirred up controversy because producer Jeremy Thomas has not been able to secure a U.S. distributor.
Read moreA wind farm in Pa. fuels green-collar union jobs
September 15, 2009EBENSBURG, Pa. -- As the G-20 Summit prepares to open in Pittsburgh Sept. 24 to deal with global capitalism's severe economic crisis, labor journalists from the International Labor Communicators Association visited some 15 area work sites...
Read moreHundreds protest Philadelphia Army Experience Center
September 15, 2009PHILADELPHIA -- Carrying banners and chanting “Shut it down!” and “War is not a game!” close to 300 demonstrators marched into the Franklin Mills Mall here to protest the continued operation of the Army Experience Center....
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