justice
Civil rights will suffer under Attorney General Sessions
February 15, 2017In 1986, a Republican Senate said his racist past was too much for him to be allowed on the federal bench. Now, Trump and the GOP have just made Jeff Sessions the next attorney general.
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Trump team prepares dramatic cuts
January 19, 2017What the Trump team may refer to as a budget is really an ideological agenda not based on any mandate -- 63 million people voted against him -- that means suffering for the American people.
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Justice Department issues scathing report: Baltimore police routinely violate rights
August 16, 2016The report fully agrees with what Baltimore residents claim to have endured for years: the racial targeting by an out-of-control police department .
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Republicans push cuts to Social Security, jump in wait time expected
August 15, 2016Federal worker unions and congressional Democrats are protesting large cuts in Social Security staffing and funding for the premiere program for the elderly and the disabled.
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At a critical moment, labor’s cause is racial, economic justice
August 9, 2016"The names, the hashtags represent real people in our very own community; they have jobs; they work alongside us; they have families; they were our high school classmates."
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