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Single-payer health care advocates plan new campaign

January 31, 2013 By Press Associates And The Will County Labor Record

Some 200 union advocates of single-payer government-run national health care met in Chicago in mid-January to plan their next moves.

Harkin, Senate Labor Committee chairman, to retire

January 31, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

Senate Labor Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said on Jan. 26 that he would not seek re-election next year.

The woman whose name I carried on a cold winter day

January 28, 2013 By Jason Gooljar

Thousands of people traveled to Washington on Satuday, Jan. 26, for a national March for Gun Control. Here is one marcher's reflections on the day.

Who knew? Those wacky Renaissance faires have radical roots

January 28, 2013 By David Szydloski

Faires have consistently provided a place for a mostly working-class audience to celebrate working-class and peasant culture from all around the world.

Virginia GOP tries to dilute African-American vote

January 28, 2013 By Art Cook

Senate Republicans took advantage of the absence of Democrat Henry Marsh, a civil rights hero who was attending the ceremony, to pass a huge mid-decade redistricting bill.