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Teachers demand end to school closings in Puerto Rico
May 12, 2017Teachers unions in the United States and Puerto Rico joined forces to fight the drastic school closings, forced upon the island’s children by hedge fund creditors.
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Formidable challenges face LGBTQ movement in today’s America
May 12, 2017Every advance achieved during the Barack Obama years was targeted for repeal. Egged on by Trump’s attacks on the free press and “political correctness,” bullies of every stripe from the boardroom down to the schoolyard suddenly...
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Oakland community gathers in solidarity with Muslim neighbors
May 11, 2017Right now in California,” Bonta said, “my colleagues and I think it’s absolutely critical to be a counterweight to balance the hatred coming out of Washington DC. As we go, others will follow.
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Comey’s firing: Trump’s attacks on democracy bring America to the brink
May 10, 2017“The administration is systematically attacking all of the institutions that are meant to put a check on the power of the president.”
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#FreeBresha: Black girls and women endangered at home, abused in the system
May 10, 2017The legal system has long practiced an exclusionary politics of protection that disproportionately hurts black women.
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