disasters
Environmentalists, railroad workers protest oil trains
July 15, 2015Environmentalists and rank-and-file railroad workers took to the streets protesting continued transportation of oil trains.
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Vigil held for explosion victims as criticism of oil trains broadens
July 7, 2015Held by 350.org and the Sierra Club, the event marked the two-year anniversary of the disaster, the Lac-Megantic, Quebec, oil train explosion that killed 47 people.
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Rail workers, environmentalists to launch week of protests vs. oil trains
July 2, 2015They plan to note that oil-laden trains are so dangerous that transporting oil across the continent by train should be severely curtailed, if not ended.
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Time to unite against racist terror
June 19, 2015"In the spring of '69, Daily World editors asked me to travel down to Charleston, S.C. to cover a strike by Hospital workers, Local 1199."
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To Mother Emanuel’s Denmark Vesey: your fight goes on!
June 19, 2015Fighting off racist attacks is nothing new for the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
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