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Sex Workers File Civil Rights Suit Against Louisiana’s “Crime Against Nature” Law (2)
(Photo: alistercoyne; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The third week of February, attorneys from New Orleans-based and national organizations brought a federal civil rights complaint against Louisiana's …
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And if We Were to Change … Everything
(Photo: random cliché) Month after month, Alternatives Economiques describes and analyzes the economic news. That does not prevent us from reflecting on what could, on what must, …
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The Link Between War and Big Finance
Veterans For Peace has joined in endorsing “Sounds of Resistance,” a concert and protest against Wall Street banks that draws the connections between militarism, Wall Street, the wealth divide …
Radio and TV Marti Should be Prime Targets for Budget Cutters
TV Martí building. (Photo: Allen Pinkley) Editor's Note: This article was originally published prior to the passage of the federal budget deal. • Not much …
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Migrant Workers Caught in Whirlwind of “Arab Spring“
A young Nigerian woman at an UNHCR constructed refugee camp in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia on March 9, 2011. For many migrants, particularly from sub-Sarahan Africa, life in Libya, despite …
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Kaiser and SEIU Flouted the NLRB Rules: An Appeal to Overturn the Kaiser Election
Throughout the United States, pro-labor activists are beginning to realize that the right to collective bargaining — currently under assault — is intertwined with the right of employees to …
Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
(Photo: Tulane Publications; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Since 2008, an Ohio-based company, White Hat Management, has collected around $230 million to run charter schools …
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Clashes in Yemen Leave One Protester Dead
Demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen, March 15, 2011. (Photo: Sallam) Sana, Yemen - Clashes broke out late Saturday evening between security forces and demonstrators here, killing one protester …
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Another Rebel Setback as Qaddafi Troops Besiege Ajdabiya
Ajdabiya, Libya - The front line for control of Libya moved to its easternmost point in three weeks on Saturday as forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi stormed this …
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US Healthcare System Unprepared for Major Nuclear Emergency
U.S. officials say the nation's health system is ill-prepared to cope with a catastrophic release of radiation, despite years of focus on the possibility of a terrorist “dirty bomb” …