Environment
Labor Secretary: Cleaning the environment will boost economy
June 10, 2016Cleaning up the environment is "an economic tool" to provide good jobs for U.S. workers, he says.
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Leave it in the ground: A new abolitionism needed for climate change
June 7, 2016Like Frederick Douglass and the abolitionists of the 19th century, today's movement to stop climate change must build a broad alliance.
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Arrests in murder of Berta Caceres, but the struggle is not over
June 3, 2016U.S. continues to fund regional security forces in Honduras despite their complicity in murder of environmental activist Berta Caceres.
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Obama must recommit to eliminating nuclear arms in Hiroshima
May 26, 2016Tomorrow, Obama will visit Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb. He should recommit to the goal of global nuclear disarmament.
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U.S. economic system traps unions in the green vs. blue conflict
May 19, 2016The latest green vs. blue conundrum has taken the form of a dispute between labor leaders, and controversy has kicked in.
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