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Indian Country Looks Forward With Optimism After Record Turnout Beats Voter ID, Other Barriers
Minnesota's most heavily Native American precincts more decisively rejected a state constitutional amendment that would have required photo ID to vote than did precincts with fewer Native voters.
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Chicago’s New Lady Labor Slugger Reactivates Social Movement Unionism
Teachers' battle against corporatization of education takes a page from history.
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Next Steps for the Occupy Movement: The Tenderloin Today Project
An Occupy-inspired San Francisco entrepreneur brings hot food and hot prospects to the Tenderloin.
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Latif Autopsy Report Ready: Public Resolution to Gitmo Mystery Endures
Long-awaited answers to the mysterious death of man detained for more than a decade at Guantanamo may reside in an autopsy report that apparently won't be made public anytime …
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How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
Truthout's own Leslie Thatcher reviews new book by Sy Montgomery “Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World.”
People for the American Way (PFAW) and the Latino Vote
While the Latino vote was crucial to the election, many Republican pundits undervalued the demographic claiming that they would not turn out in high numbers.
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Move to Amend Wins Big at the Ballot Box: Americans Fed Up with Big Money and Undue Corporate Influence
From Massachusetts to Oregon, Colorado to Illinois and Wisconsin, and Ohio to California, citizens throughout the country voted overwhelmingly yesterday for their legislators to pass a constitutional amendment to …
National Nurses: Message from Working People to Wall Street – America is Not for Sale
National Nurses United, the nationu2019s largest union and professional association of registered nurses sends a message to Obama to protect the medical rights of citizens across the nation.
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The End of Prohibition
As some states fully legalized marijuana, we seem to be approaching the end of another prohibition, one that the country seems to be ready for.
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How the GOP’s War on Voting Backfired
New voter restriction laws passed by Republicans this year aimed at keeping Obama's minority support away from the polls, but only became more of an incentive to vote.