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Environment
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Let’s Give Workers Something to Cheer About
Labor Day should be a day on, not a day off, in the effort to reclaim the American dream for working people.
Global Warming and Economic Crisis Lead to One Solution: Climate Jobs
May Boeve from 350.org and Bruce Hamilton of the Amalgamated Transit Union discuss how the environmental and labor movements have united to organize the People's Climate Summit in New …
Pesticides on the Playground
Is your children’s schoolyard routinely sprayed with pesticides? How safe your children are might depend on where you live.
Advancing Backwards: Bolivia’s Child Labor Law
In the midst of a global fight against child labor and poverty, Bolivia stands alone on an empty street.
Government Surveillance Undermines Attorney-Client Privilege
The government's practice of monitoring attorney-client communications over prison email systems was on display in two New York cases this summer when prosecutors argued that inmates wanting to speak …
How One US Group is Using Family Values to Promote Global Anti-Gay Hate
The Human Rights Campaign released a new report this week detailing how one US group, the World Congress of Families, is pushing an anti-gay agenda that has ties to …
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More Subversive Than You Think
Rick Perlstein's “The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan” is a significant book that details the rise of the right wing in the United …
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Hawaii’s GMO Battle: Federal Judge Strikes Down Kauai’s Pesticide Regulations
The anti-GMO forces in Hawaii were dealt a blow when a federal judge stuck down a local ordinance regulating pesticide use where four of the world's largest agrichemical companies …
Mary Anne Grady Flores and the Drones of Upstate New York
Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 58-year-old grandmother of three, was sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base near her home.
NSA Creates Google-Like Search Engine to Help Other Agencies Access Collected Phone, Email Records
The search tool, known as ICReach, is designed to share more than 850 billion records - that is more than twice the number of stars in the Milky Way.