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Pressure mounts to end Cuban travel ban
July 18, 2009CHICAGO -- Pressure is mounting on multiple fronts to end U.S. government travel and trade restrictions against Cuba: the only country in the world American citizens cannot freely visit. The battle is increasingly centering in the...
Read moreReports of the death of union card check still premature
July 18, 2009A report in the New York Times today that says senators have “dropped” the majority sign-up provision of the Employee Free Choice Act is not accurate. A spokesperson for Sen. Tom Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who...
Read moreCOMMENTARY Affirmative action and disregard of evidence
July 18, 2009The five reactionary Supreme Court judges ignored evidence and ruled to let stand the results of a 2003 firefighter promotion test, even though no African Americans were promoted, and despite the fact that second-generation fire fighters,...
Read moreCOMMENTARY Public options for a dual economy
July 18, 2009The egregious economic crimes perpetrated by U.S. finance capital have compelled new positive change in the balance of forces in our country. The swindle of trillions of dollars with its destruction of the hosing stock, the...
Read moreFull text of President Obama speech to the NAACP Centennial Convention
July 17, 2009As prepared for delivery for July 16. It is an honor to be here, in the city where the NAACP was formed, to mark its centennial. What we celebrate tonight is not simply the journey the...
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