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Documents expose new ALEC scheme to kill clean energy
August 8, 2013"It is clear ALEC is working in secret to push state policies in an extreme right direction, but working families are standing up to this agenda."
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Race to the bottom for sweatshop workers
May 28, 2013Minimum wage workers, earning $74 a month were beaten by riot police for a protest demanding a $14 a month raise.
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Cancer doctors slam drug industry for immoral profiteering
May 6, 2013More than 100 leading cancer specialists from around the world have denounced the "astronomical" costs of cancer drugs, suggesting that drug companies are engaged in unethical profiteering.
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Hugo Chavez and Yewri Guillen: two lives connected
March 19, 2013The late Hugo Chavez and the late Yewri Guillen were both Latin Americans who, although they never knew each other and came from different countries, are deeply connected.
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Today in Labor History: Greed and the Pemberton Mill disaster
January 10, 2013In the worst industrial disaster in Mass. state history, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence collapsed on January 10, 1860, trapping 900 workers, most of them recent immigrants, many women and children
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