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Capitol Hill swamped with calls for health care public option
July 29, 2009Union members and other health care reform advocates bombarded Capitol Hill July 28 with phone calls demanding enactment of health care reform with a strong “public option.” The telephone calls came during a nationwide “call-in day...
Read moreThe ‘Skip’ Gates arrest: Racism is more than an attitude
July 29, 2009The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop in Cambridge, not far from the racial profiling incident of Henry Louis Gates that triggered a national conversation on race and racism, and, being a bit...
Read more150,000 South African workers walk out
July 28, 2009Original source: Johannesburg has been brought to a grinding halt with 10,000 local government workers marching to Mary Fitzgerald Square to reaffirm their union's demand for a 15 per cent wage increase and a housing subsidy....
Read moreMinneapolis author bringing 1934 Teamsters strike to life
July 28, 2009ST. PAUL -(Workday Minnesota) After “Bloody Friday,” in 1934, when Minneapolis police brutalized about 60 striking truck drivers, an old woman drove up to the strike’s headquarters in a truck filled with supplies. It must have...
Read moreMessage from Kalispell: Give us health care reform NOW!
July 28, 2009Steffi Baca of Kalispell was one of hundreds of Montana constituents who rallied outside the district offices of Democratic Sen. Max Baucus July 24 to demand that he include a strong public option in the health...
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