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Secretive Trans-Pacific ‘free trade’ deal threatens wages, jobs

August 22, 2013 By Barb Kucera

Hundreds of activists marched through downtown Minneapolis on August 20 to protest the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Feminist and Marxist: Dorothy Smith receives lifetime sociology award

August 22, 2013 By Anita Waters

At a national meeting this summer here, social theorist Dorothy E. Smith was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Petition: Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, please quit!

August 16, 2013 By John Rummel

An online petition, supported by the Detroit branch of the NAACP, is calling on Kevyn Orr to resign for "vile and callous"comments.

Writers Guild to PBS: Air film on Koch brothers

August 16, 2013 By PAI

The Writers Guild of America-East is demanding that a Public Broadcasting System flagship station, WNET 13 in New York, air the documentary about the far-right oil tycoons, the Koch brothers.

A year after Chevron explosion, the grassroots mobilizes

August 13, 2013 By Juan Lopez

A protest grew to 3,000 once it reached the gates of the Chevron refinery, and 209 were subsequently arrested in a sit-down act of non-violent civil disobedience.