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San Francisco hotel workers march for a new citywide pact
August 18, 2009SAN FRANCISCO ― As contracts covering some 9,000 hotel workers were expiring Aug. 14, hundreds of workers and community supporters marched down Market St., the city’s main thoroughfare, and past several prime tourist hotels, proclaiming their...
Read moreAs reports of compromise appear, push grows for public option
August 18, 2009As President Obama continues his push for comprehensive health care reform and as reports emerge about “compromises” designed to win backing from Senate Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans, Health Care for America Now, a huge national...
Read moreSupreme Court orders new hearing for Troy Davis
August 18, 2009In a significant move the Supreme Court today ordered a new hearing in the case of African American death row inmate Troy Davis accused of killing Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. Davis’s case...
Read moreObama admin. assures veterans on health reform
August 18, 2009The White House continued to knock down false information about the president's health reform plan by addressing false rumors circulated in the right-wing media that claim reform could force veterans out of the VA health care...
Read moreBig Oil holding ‘town halls’ on climate bill
August 18, 2009Original source: Following in the footsteps of the corporate-backed protest movement against health care reform, a group founded and funded by business interests opposed to regulating greenhouse gas pollution is planning a series of rallies to...
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