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“Nuclear option” used against Philly teachers
October 10, 2014News stories have documented the ravaging of the district's finances by local banks and out-of-town educational consulting companies.
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Teamsters’ teach-in spotlights environmental injustice at hazardous Missouri landfill
October 10, 2014The landfill contains 8,700 tons of un-containerized radioactive waste and there's a fire at the site.
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“Standing in the Breach”: good politics and music from Jackson Browne
October 8, 2014Jackson Browne has released his 14th studio album. "Standing in the Breach" is the most political album in Browne's increasing leftward cultural and political career.
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Wisconsin moving to stop as many as 300,000 from voting
October 7, 2014Gov. Scott Walker and corporate extremist backers could suppress 300,000 registered voters.
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N.Y. and D.C low-wage workers win big
October 3, 2014More than 200,000 low-wage workers got big wins from New York Mayor de Blasio and the Obama administration's Labor Department.
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