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Labor and bloggers join forces at Netroots Nation
August 14, 2009PITTSBURGH, Pa. - 'We are using technology to go beyond our traditional organizing efforts,' Eric Russell, from the United Steelworkers union (USW) communications department, told workshop attendees here at the Netroots Nation conference August 13. 'We're...
Read moreSoldier resists Afghanistan deployment
August 14, 2009Sgt. Travis Bishop served 14 months in Iraq before he was ordered to deploy to war stricken Afghanistan. Yet he refused to go and calls the war “illegal.” He is the second soldier in the past...
Read moreOklahomans battle poultry companies to save their rivers
August 14, 2009Oklahoma’s attorney general is suing Tyson Foods and other poultry processors, charging them with polluting an area of his state known for its chain of scenic lakes and rivers.
Read moreEDITORIAL: The good news of Sotomayors confirmation
August 14, 2009The confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor as the first Latina and third woman ever to serve on the U.S. Supreme court should be regarded with a deep sense of satisfaction by all lovers of justice in this...
Read moreRight-wing terror groups on the rise
August 14, 2009GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the single largest act of domestic terrorism in US history in Oklahoma City in 1995, stands only as the most well-known right-wing militia member.
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