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Care for Child Refugees
As indigenous peoples flee persecution in Central America, they should be treated as the refugees they are - with a right to asylum in the United States.
Death of US-Backed Ex-Dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier Won’t End Haitian Victims’ Quest for Justice
The former US-backed dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as “Baby Doc,” has died at 63.
Consumer and Worker Rights Groups File Amicus in Opposition of New Poultry Inspection System
This rule will likely mean that more tainted chicken will show up on America's dinner plates.
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The Late Triumph of the Bush-Bin Laden Dance
Osama Bin Laden explicitly described his terror tactics as drawing the US, and the West generally, into an endless war.
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Bangladeshi Workers Organize to Protect Their Most Valuable Export: Themselves
Migrant domestic workers from Bangladesh enjoy little protection from their government, but they're not alone.
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Public Infrastructure, Private Investment? Whose Hands Are in Whose Pockets?
In reading the US Treasury Department's glowing new report on public-private partnerships, truth must be separeted from fiction.
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We’re All in This Together
Labor organizers are increasingly enlisting consumers in campaigns to improve conditions for low-wage workers.
A Change in the Climate: The Climate Movement Steps Up
Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn't too early to say it: the People's Climate March changed the social map.
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Conflict Keeps Mothers From Health Care Services
Increasing levels of violence across India are taking their toll on women and cutting off access to crucial reproductive health services.
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Making Windmills Out of Warplanes
It's time for new spending priorities.