U.S.
Wal-Mart organizing drive spreads to Texas
June 12, 2009DALLAS -- Wal-Mart workers across the country are organizing themselves into unions with the United Food and Commercial Workers, even in Texas! The organizing committee held a press conference outside a Wal-Mart at the extreme southern...
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Dean backs Josh Skaller for council seat
June 11, 2009BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Howard Dean, founder of Democracy for America and Democratic National Committee chair emeritus, gave an enthusiastic endorsement to City Council candidate Josh Skaller, saying, “We need people who are going to be on...
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Howard Dean endorses Josh Skaller for N.Y. City Council
June 11, 2009BROOKLYN, N.Y.— Howard Dean, founder of Democracy for America and Democratic National Committee Chair Emeritus, gave an enthusiastic endorsement to City Council candidate Josh Skaller, saying that “we need people who are going to be on...
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Holocaust Museum shooter had close ties to prominent neo-Nazis
June 11, 2009Original source: Southern Poverty Law Center Law enforcement officials have identified the suspect in the Holocaust Museum shootings as James Wenneker von Brunn, born in 1920, from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. D.C. Police Spokeswoman Traci...
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Health care now fight rages on Capitol Hill
June 11, 2009WASHINGTON — The fight for universal health care is raging on Capitol Hill with grassroots activists and progressive lawmakers making clear they will not support anything less than reform that provides a strong public option like...
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