disasters
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: 106th anniversary today in NYC
March 24, 2017Today in New York, workers and safety advocates will come together in remembrance of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York City that claimed 146 lives, mostly immigrant women and girls.
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Natural gas leak leaves Alaska’s Cook Inlet in deep trouble
March 21, 2017The pipeline belongs to a gas production facility built in 1964 by Shell, the most ancient of 16 offshore oil and gas platforms that currently take up residence in the Cook Inlet.
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It’s official: Trump is president and America is for sale
January 20, 2017At the same time, the resistance to Trump is being launched in communities across America. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected here tomorrow to protest Trump’s announced plans to curtail the rights of women and...
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This week in history: Pearl Harbor antecedents, the attack, consequences
December 5, 2016“I grew up behind U.S. barbed wire fences,” recalls one survivor, the well known actor George Takei.
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“Mothers of Flint” visit N.Y. poisoned water village
October 12, 2016Instances of water contamination, thanks to corporate greed, political inattention or worse, are sprouting nationwide.
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