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Rank and file longshore leader honored at memorial
March 27, 2013The South African government honored longtime International Longshore and Warehouse Union activist Leo Robinson with its Nelson Mandela Humanitarian Award.
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Movies you might have missed: “On the Bowery”
March 25, 2013"On the Bowery," a unique film from 1956 uses a creative technique to get the viewer behind the scenes of what was then a notorious skid row in America's largest city.
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Today in women’s history: Minnie Fisher Cunningham born
March 19, 2013Cunningham was elected president of the Galveston Equal Suffrage Association and toured her home state to speak out for the right for women to vote.
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40 years after, Watergate crimes remain relevant
March 15, 2013Common Cause gathered almost everyone it could find from the Watergate era for a 2-day retrospective reviewing the constitutional crimes, known as "Watergate," that brought down Richard Nixon.
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Semiotic Weapons: Advertising is the focus of two recent films.
March 15, 2013Two very different foreign films focus on the advertising industry. They intersect at the idea that advertising feeds upon our innate desire for happiness.
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