2009
Labor shifts its health care drive into the streets
August 11, 2009Organized groups of union members, responding to right-wing attempts to de-rail the movement for health care reform, are turning out for virtually every health care rally and town hall meeting in the nation, knocking on doors,...
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‘Monongahela Dusk’ a steamy thriller about the steel industry!
August 11, 2009Sex, political corruption, intrigue, conspiracy, bombing and confrontations with the National Guard and local police — a steamy beach thriller set in Baghdad, right? Well, not really. John Hoerr, a former writer for Business Week best...
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Sea Stories and Other Dirty Lies, Movie Review: In the Loop
August 10, 2009Movie Review: In the LoopI am grateful to the British facility with language for not having any tattoos anywhere on my skin, and for one of the best movies of recent times. In 1961, I got...
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Immigrant rights leaders welcome Obamas detention plan
August 7, 2009Civil rights leaders and immigrant advocacy groups say they welcome President Barack Obama’s new plan to institute badly needed reforms within the country’s broken immigration detention system. Current detention policies continue to routinely violate the basic...
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Union families show anti-Obama rally what real Americans want
August 7, 2009WAKARUSA, Ind. – In just a few hours on Aug. 5 the Steelworkers Union organized a bus load and several cars from Gary, Ind., to take the two hour trip to this small sleepy town near...
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