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Iraq vet jailed for refusing to redeploy to Afghanistan
August 7, 2009An army soldier was sentenced to a one month jail term and demoted Wednesday for refusing to fight in Afghanistan. Victor Agosto, a veteran of the Iraq war who was due for release in June was...
Read moreNon-discrimination bill gets bipartisan boost in the Senate
August 7, 2009Civil rights and labor organizations this week praised the introduction of the Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA) by a bipartisan group of Senators. ENDA would create a federal standard for outlawing workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation...
Read moreUnion 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...
Read moreDont close womens health clinic! Protesters tell University of Chicago
August 7, 2009Chicago — The University of Chicago Medical Center, citing financial shortfalls, is closing its Women’s Health Center on 47th Street, which annually serves thousands of women on the South Side. Protests over the last two months...
Read moreTwitter silenced, hackers suspected
August 7, 2009Hackers may have brought down Twitter this morning. The rapidly expanding new communications tool, which gained global attention in the Iran election crisis, was inaccessible for several hours Thursday. The company is blaming a “denial-of-service” attack.
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