Budget Cuts
Teach-in promotes labor-student unity
October 17, 2011Thousands of students, labor leaders, and community activits tuned in to the AFL-CIO’s “America Wants to Work” National Teach-In last week.
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Tea party takes America hostage on debt
August 2, 2011The debt ceiling crisis is the latest in a series of hostage crises instigated by the extreme right wing.
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Fight against privatization roils a Maryland county
July 22, 2011Hundreds of Frederick County workers packed the county hearing room to speak to the five county commissioners two days in a row this week.
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St. Louis rally opposes cuts (with video)
July 12, 2011Over 200 community activists, union members and students rallied outside of right-wing Republican Senator Roy Blunt's office in St. Louis demanding "no cuts" to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.
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What’s at stake in Minnesota shutdown: video
July 5, 2011A video produced by the Labor Education Service outlines the many public services being affected by the state government shutdown.
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