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Today in labor history: Tule Lake internment camp opens
May 27, 2014Tule Lake was the largest and most conflict-ridden of the ten War Relocation Authority camps used to carry out the government's system of exclusion and detention of persons of Japanese descent.
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Immigration debate begins in Senate as calls to end deportations grow
June 12, 2013President Obama insisted the "moment is now" to give 11 million immigrants in the U.S. without documents a chance at citizenship.
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United Farm Workers’ Huerta receives Medal of Freedom
May 31, 2012United Farm Workers legend Dolores Huerta is among the 13 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients.
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Eight minutes when the people of Illinois owned their Capitol (with video)
November 10, 2011Occupy Springfield used the "People's Mic" to make a statement about corporate "terrorism" at the Illinois State Capitol Nov. 9.
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Eurozone chiefs rage at Greek PM, global unions demand Robin Hood tax
November 3, 2011The Greek people and eurozone leaders both seem to be furious at Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou's referendum announcement.
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Mexican-American Emma Tenayuca fought for women workers
March 8, 2008By 1934, Emma Tennyuca she was 18-years-old and was arrested for her leadership role in the organization of Mexican women in the Finck Cigar Strike. It was the first time in San Antonio’s labor history when...
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Racist found guilty in 1964 Mississippi killings
June 24, 2005On June 21 a jury of nine whites and three Blacks in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted octogenarian and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter, exactly 41 years after the triple slaying of young...
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