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Unfazed by Glenn Beck, silent majority turning out to back health reform

August 28, 2009 By Susan Webb

You wouldn't know it from the sensation-hungry commercial media and the right-wing pundits, but supporters of health care reform and a public option are turning out at vigils, rallies and town hall events across the country.

Immigrant workers demand back wages from NBC Contractors

August 28, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

HAYWARD, Calif. - "When I heard about NBC Contractors denying workers their rights and the pay they deserve, I thought about my father, and the struggles he went through when he emigrated from China 25 years...

Political prisoner Leonard Peltier denied parole

August 28, 2009 By Joseph Hancock

Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) Leonard Peltier, 64, was again denied parole in a recent hearing by the U.S. Parole Commission. Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents...

Big-money consultants fight to kill EFCA, health care

August 28, 2009 By Seth Michaels

Behind the wide and well-funded disinformation campaign against pro-worker policies like the Employee Free Choice Act is a network of corporate funders and high-priced lobbying firms, aimed at distracting and confusing the public and the press...

Rights coalition calls for end to immigrant arrest program

August 28, 2009

More than 500 immigrants’ rights and social justice organizations have sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he stop a controversial program whereby state and local police are allowed to participate in immigration enforcement...