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U.S. unionists back domestic worker from India

February 6, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

A group of U.S. unionists made it quite clear to India's ambassador to the U.S. that his nation's diplomats should stop treating their own domestic workers as serfs.

Poem: “Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Riverfest, St. Paul, Minnesota”

February 5, 2014 By Robert Edwards

From "The Death of Communism" (Partisan Press) and reprinted with permission.

Pete Seeger’s green activism in New York and New Jersey

February 4, 2014 By Blake Skylar

Seeger did much for New Jersey, taking a stand against ocean dumping . And he thought that a graceful boat would draw people to their forgotten riverfronts and imagine a different future for the Hudson River

Move underway to expand early voting in Missouri

February 3, 2014 By Tony Pecinovsky

Voters in the Show Me State may have a special reason to get out the vote this fall, as a coalition is busily collecting signatures to qualify an early voting initiative to be placed on the...

NNU: Big hospital chain retaliates vs. nurses who led patient safety campaign

February 3, 2014 By PAI

"These disgraceful firings are being carried out in direct retaliation for the public advocacy of these courageous nurses."