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Support the Chilean student uprising for free, quality education for all
Statement from the Bay Area Ad-Hoc Committee in support of Free, Quality Education for All in Chile
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UNITE HERE! Local 2 leads Labor Day march and picket
UNITE HERE! Local 2 led a march on Labor Day in San Francisco in which 500 workers marched, including unions…
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U.S. judges bribed to fill for-profit prisons with kids
A “for-profit” prison developer and a county attorney bribed two Pennsylvania judges $2.9 million to help build and then push…
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Over 300 U.S. troops dead in Afghanistan in 2011
This month, U.S. fatalities in 2011 in Afghanistan topped 300. August was the deadliest month of the entire 10-year war,…
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Venceremos Brigade challenges travel ban, promotes exchange
The author was one of the 37 members of the Venceremos Brigade who returned on Aug. 1 from a trip…
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One in four California families can’t feed their kids
According to a new analysis of Gallup data released Aug. 18, one in four California households with children reported food…
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Protesters decry police killing in New Haven, Conn.
On Aug. 20, Oscar Santiago-Rivera was picked up by the police outside a bar. The next thing his family knew,…
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Pelican Bay SHU prisoners plan to resume hunger strike Sept. 26
Pelican Bay State Prison leader Mutope Duguma announces resumption of hunger strike by Security Housing Unit prisoners.
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Anti-corporate ‘convergence’ held in St. Louis
Some 400 activists from across the country attended the anti-corporate Midwest Rising: Convergence 2011 in St. Louis, Aug. 12-15.
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Foreign student workers demonstrate at Hershey Company
Hundreds of foreign student workers in Pennsylvania walked off the job and demonstrated Aug. 17 and 18 protesting low wages…
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