All News Articles for 2016-12-08
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With New Tax, Portland Fires Opening Shot in Battle Against Extreme CEO Pay Predicting the move will "spread like wildfire" to other cities, IPS's Sarah Anderson says we may be looking at the "dawn of a new 'pay ratio politics'" Read more |
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Astronaut, Senator, 'American Hero' John Glenn Dies at 95 Dan Rather says of Glenn: 'His triumph was the triumph of science and teamwork and optimism' Read more |
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'Like An Arsonist Fighting Fires': Outrage Grows Over Trump's EPA Pick Rep. Raúl Grijalva introduces earthquake prevention bill to call attention to fracking crisis in Pruitt's home state of Oklahoma Read more |
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'Welcome to the General Billionaires Administration': Pattern Emerges in Trump Cabinet If the Trump administration is a pair of bifocals, one lens is the military, the other appears to be one of corporate power Read more |
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Trump's Fast-Food CEO Labor Pick: 'Anti-Family, Anti-Worker, Anti-Jobs' Fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder has been described as ' a minor league version of Trump' Read more |
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'We Are Protectors': After DAPL Decision, Tribal Members Look to the Future of Pipeline Fight "We've built a movement of movements. So what are going to do next? We're going to keep on going." Read more |
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'Silence Not an Option': Calls Grow to Disrupt Trump Inauguration 'The Majority have spoken—by nearly 2.7 million votes & counting!' Michael Moore tweeted, linking to grassroots group's website planning direct actions on January 20 Read more |
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AFL-CIO, Nation's Largest Union Federation, Endorses Keith Ellison To Lead DNC 'I am proud to be on their side and I am even prouder that the AFL-CIO is on mine,' said the congressman in response. 'Workers will be central to the Democratic Party.' Read more |
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Divest Shmivest. Trump to Reportedly Keep Stake in Business Run by Sons More troubling, business assets managed by 'web' of LLCs, making it impossible to gauge the full extent of potential conflicts Read more |
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Betraying Pro-Worker Facade, 'Vindictive' Trump Attacks Union Leader Chuck Jones, president of United Steelworkers 1999, has been receiving threatening phone calls since Twitter onslaught from the president-elect Read more |
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Michigan Recount Halted as Judge 'Gives In' to Trump and State GOP 'We are not backing down from this fight―a fight to protect the hard-fought, hard-won civil and voting rights of all Americans' Read more |
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On Our Watch, Global Giraffe Population 'Pushed Toward Extinction' 'These gentle giants have been overlooked' Read more |