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Cutting the Budget, Bleeding Us Dry
Carol Simpson CartoonWork (http://www.cartoonwork.com) Originally posted at In These Times If you feel like that recovery we keep hearing about hasn’t quite trickled down to your block, there’s a good...
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Labor Action and Inaction in Colombia Free Trade Deal
Cross-posted from In these Times Rally for human rights in Colombia (image: mar is sea Y via flickr/Creative Commons) As the media swarmed over the scandal surrounding the Secret Service’s alleged...
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Child Labor and Agribusiness Churn Washington’s Food Fight
Image: Human Rights Watch Cross-posted from In these Times For a moment in Washington, it seemed like the White House was finally getting serious about reforming the agricultural labor system, with a...
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The Morning After: What Next for DREAMers?
Dianne Ovalle Cross-posted from Culture/Strike: Was it a DREAM fulfilled, or nothing more than a dream? The morning after Obama announced the halting of deportations of young immigrants, activists...
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Reforming Welfare and Gutting the Poor: A Bipartisan Platform
Charles McCain/Flickr/Creative Commons Originally posted at In These Times The Romney camp’s new attack line on the Obama administration–that he “gutted” the work requirements imposed on families...
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A Voice Beyond the Vote
Undocubus protesters demonstrating at the Democratic National Convention (Chandra Narcia via Facebook) Originally posted at CultureStrike Immigration has been catapulted to the front lines of the...
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Toxic Train Wreck Exposes Weakness in Federal Chemical Policy
The August 6, 2012, fire at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, California, caused by a release of flammable vapor, was one of several recent accidents in an industry with little to no government...
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Immigration Reform Would Boost Business, Undermine Rights
Originally posted at In These Times Santiago Armengod / MigrationNow.com After years of Congressional silence on immigration, Washington is finally stirring toward legislative reform, driven by...
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What India’s Sex Workers Want: Power, Not Rescue
Originally published at In These Times Street art in West Bengal advocates labor rights, rather than criminalization or ‘rescue,’ for sex workers. The Durbar Committee is a self-described...
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Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education
(Chicago Teachers Local Union 1/Flickr/Creative Commons) Originally published at In These Times After years of being backed into a corner, on Monday public-school teachers stood up in defiance against...
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