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Climate protesters surround Capitol coal plant

March 5, 2009

Original source: A nonviolent protest underway in Washington aims to shut down the U.S. Capitol's own coal-fired power plant to demand federal action on the deepening climate crisis. Despite snowy weather, a crowd estimated at more...

Employee Free Choice on the move

March 5, 2009 By Seth Michaels

Thanks to a strong pro-worker majority in Congress, the support of President Obama and a unified movement of union members and grassroots allies, the Employee Free Choice Act is closer to becoming a reality than ever.

Health advocates tell Capitol Hill: go for single-payer, not Mass. plan

March 4, 2009

A packed Capitol Hill forum Feb. 25 heard a warning that national health care reform should steer clear of the problems Massachusetts has experienced with its state program. Titled “National Lessons from State Health Reform: the...

New Labor Dept. head pledges to work for workers (for a change)

March 4, 2009

MIAMI — Hector Capote, a Cuban immigrant, told the nation’s new secretary of labor and the crowd that packed the African-Methodist Episcopal Church here March 2 that after 14 years of dead-end jobs, “many of them...

Clinton in Mid-East: U.S. will vigorously press two-state solution

March 4, 2009 By Susan Webb

During her visit to Israel this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reaffirmed U.S. ties with Israel but said the Obama administration believes that working for a two-state solution is both inevitable and in Israel's best...