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Obama outlines pro-worker tax policy, slams right-wing scare tactics
April 17, 2009While right-wingers tried to resuscitate their discredited movement with Fox-amplified anti-tax “tea party” protests yesterday, President Obama outlined a set of strongly pro-working-class tax reform initiatives.
Read moreSingle-payer health care could save $400 billion per year, advocates say
April 17, 2009CHICAGO – Health care activists rallied here to express their concern that the big hospital, insurance and pharmaceutical companies were “marginalizing” the single payer option in the discussion on health care reform currently before Congress. The...
Read moreGoldman Sachs seeks to silence critical Fla. blogger
April 17, 2009Original source: Mike Morgan, a registered investment advisor in Florida's Jensen Beach community, is angry over the role the investment bank Goldman Sachs and its executives played in the current global economic crisis while collecting more...
Read moreFending off the mortgage industry: Savvy activists are winning in court and on the streets
April 17, 2009Before she was evicted from her own home, Kendra Washington took a walk around her Detroit neighborhood. She found an empty home and decided to squat with her two children. “I refused to get my kids...
Read moreGuantanamo inmate ‘beaten with batons’
April 17, 2009A detainee at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay phoned a global TV network on Tuesday to say that he was severely beaten for refusing to leave his cell.
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