National
Single-payer health reform bill introduced in Senate
April 2, 2009Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer health reform bill, the American Health Security Act of 2009, in the U.S. Senate last week. The bill is the...
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Cleveland rallies for Employee Free Choice
April 2, 2009As part of a growing grassroots movement, over 100 community and labor activists rallied for the Employee Free Choice Act in Cleveland Public Square March 30th. The event, one of 44 “Resistance and Recovery” actions held...
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Letter from the Fargo flood This tragedy has given the word community a deeper meaning
April 1, 2009Students are now back in school in Fargo, N.D., and the Red River has been falling since its record flood crest of 40.82 feet on March 28, but the National Weather Service says another crest this...
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As joblessness soars, call goes out for food stamp justice
April 1, 2009PAWTUCKET, R.I. — Empty store windows line downtown streets in this old mill town, the birthplace of our country’s industrial revolution.
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New study highlights cruelty of US immigration policy to child
April 1, 2009A newly released study by the law firm of Dorsey and Whitney, LLP for the Urban Institute should be required reading for anyone who thinks that reform of our immigration laws and procedures is something that...
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