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The “Legislative Wall”: Dick Armey’s Top Five Tea Party Republican Candidates
As most independent groups focus on the presidential nomination contest, FreedomWorks for America is focused on electing far-right Republicans to the U.S. Senate. The independent-expenditure-only super PAC is part …
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California’s Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional – Again
Opponents of Proposition 8, a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, react after news of the ban being knocked down in court, outside the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals …
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Agribusiness Fights to Allow Children to Work in Manure Pits
Most child labor was prohibited in 1938, but there are a few exceptions for certain industries where children are still allowed to work.
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Big News on Bank Transfers
Two summers ago, at the U.S. Social Forum, I attended a panel discussion about ways to expand the use of credit unions as alternatives to the “too big to …
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The Mammogram Diversion: Is Komen Laying the Groundwork to Reject Planned Parenthood Proposals?
Is the Susan G. Komen Foundation using a “mammogram diversion” as a precursor to denying Planned Parenthood state affiliates access to future grants for breast cancer education and screening? …
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Many Catholic Universities, Hospitals Already Cover Contraception in Their Health Insurance Plans
Catholic leaders and the GOP presidential candidates have intentionally distorted the Obama administration’s new rule requiring employers and insurers to provide reproductive health benefits at no additional cost sharing. …
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Agreeing to Disagree on Much, Occupiers and Tea Party Stand Together Against NDAA
Well almost standing together. The Worcester Telegram and Gazette reported that Occupy Wall Streeters in Worcester, MA "mostly occupied the north end of the small Federal Plaza Park and Tea Partiers …
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Anti-Choice Komen Vice President Karen Handel Resigns, Admits Role in Planned Parenthood Decision
Today, Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s controversial Senior Vice President of Public Policy, resigned in protest of the organization’s decision to consider reinstating funding for cancer …
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Daring to Look Behind the Curtain: The Drop-Out Crisis Redux
“Only four out of ten U.S. children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college” — does this sound familiar? Possibly at …
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“Best Practices” and “Exemplar Communities”: Ivory Tower Housing Solutions for Haiti
In a 2011 Forum on the Crisis of Housing in Haiti, a group of camp residents and advocates asked “grassroots organizations and all other movements to mobilize with us on …