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Six-Month Anniversary of Major Chemical Spill in West Virginia
Russell Mokhiber and Angie Rosser discuss the effects of the West Virginia chemical spill on industry regulation and citizen organizing.
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Banning Birth Control: It’s Not Happening in America…Yet
In the U.S., we would never do anything as blatant as ban birth control. Instead we will continue to chip away at its availability.
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Sugar Plant Removed Safety Device Thirteen Days Before Temp Worker’s Death
Janio Salinas was buried alive in sugar. A newly released accident report and an undercover investigation by Univision reveal the obstacles OSHA faces in its temp worker safety initiative.
Unions Backing Historical People’s Climate March
Labor supporters of the march are encouraging union members, their families and their friends to participate in the September 21 March.
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What West Virginia Can Learn From Sarah Palin
If that state put a tax on coal and gas extraction - effectively a carbon tax - and then cycled all of the money it took in back to …
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Worker-Owners Cheer Creation of $1.2 Million Co-op Development Fund in NYC
Noting the particular conditions that have helped secure local support for cooperatives in New York City and Jackson, the Democracy at Work Institute's Hoover acknowledges that activists are still …
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The High Cost of Cheap Shrimp
Retailers and consumers need to do their homework to make sure they're not buying seafood tainted by modern-day slavery.
The US Re-Militarization of Central America and Mexico
In a letter sent to Obama and the region's other presidents last year, over 145 civil society organizations called out US policies that “promote militarization to address organized crime.”
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Brazilian Workers Buck Union Officials to Strike
The World Cup is in full swing, and official propaganda from President Dilma Roussef's administration portrays Brazil as a wonderland.
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Domestic Care for Family Members Isn’t Valued if Its Givers Are Exploited
Mostly foreign-born women, domestic workers have been excluded from labor protections that workers in the rest of the economy take for granted. A growing movement calling for domestic workers …