All News Articles for 2013-04-03
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Efforts to Deliver "Kill Shot" to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC In a victory for working families, New York is poised to become the largest U.S. city to require businesses offer paid sick days to workers. Community activists and labor leaders struck a deal with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to allow a vote on a paid sick leave ordinance that would cover almost 1 million people. But workers in more than 700 other large American cities must choose between spreading their illness and getting paid. Read more |
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Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis on Fighting School Closures The city of Chicago is planning to close 61 schools this year, arguing they are half-empty and too costly to keep open. But parents, teachers, and students are fighting back. The Real News recently sat down with a woman helping lead these efforts, Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union. We started off by asking her about comments by former Obama chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who said the closings are a done deal. Read more |
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Water for Profit: Seizing Climate Change as a Chance to Corporatize the Commons “Not enough people are thinking long term of [water] as an asset that is worthy of ownership,” says one executive Read more |
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AP Finally Agrees: “No Human Being is Illegal” Phrase "illegal immigrant" banned from AP Stylebook Read more |
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Monsanto Cashes in on Ongoing Drought As farmers continue to struggle, GMO giant reports higher than expected earnings Read more |
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Activists on Both Sides of Atlantic Denounce US/EU FTA as Corporate Power Grab President Obama's plan for a trade liberalization called Read more |
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Chemical Disasters, Agent Orange, and GMOs: Monsanto's Legacy Traced in Exposé Food & Water Watch highlights toxic 'corporatization and industrialization of our food supply' Read more |
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Hanford Nuclear Waste Site at Risk of Hydrogen Explosion, Report Warns Following report of leaks, nuclear safety board finds dangerous hydrogen build up in waste holding tanks Read more |
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How 'Pro-Life' Legislation Is Putting Women in Jail Lynn Paltrow, Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW) is co-author of a study on the arrests of and forced interventions on pregnant women in the name of "fetal protection" and "fetal protection". "The cases documented in our study, as well as recent cases, make clear that, 40 years after Roe v. Wade was decided, far more is at stake than abortion or women's reproductive rights." Read more |
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US Plays Negative Role as Korea Border Tensions Grow Escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula Wednesday found North Korea fulfilling its earlier promise to block a shared industrial zone that many contend has acted as a buttress against aggression between the North and the South. As the US military conducts provocative war games with its South Korean counterpart this week, China expressed serious concerns over the volatile situation. Critics of the US role say that deploying F-22 fighter jets, Naval battle groups, and bombers in the region is only making matters worse. Read more |
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Israeli Fighter Jets Bomb Gaza Strip Tensions continue to rise in the region as airstrikes break cease-fire in place since November Read more |