Politics
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Women Leading the Labor Movement: Frances Perkins
As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Frances Perkins, born in 1880, studied the working conditions in a factory. Perkins later remembered...
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Women Leading the Labor Movement: Sara Nelson
Sara Nelson has served as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014. The AFA represents fifty thousand...
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This is Not Your Father’s Labor Movement
Once upon a time, the labor movement focused on organizing industrial trade jobs, jobs that mainly employed men. Stereotypical union representatives were...
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2.5KYou Need to Vote
You need to vote. There isn’t more that I can say. This Supreme Court is inconsistently conservative, and the only way to...
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2.0KMidterm Elections are in Less than Five Months
The Midterm Elections are in less than five months in the United States. That means every member of the House of Representatives...
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Habemus papam: Electing a Pope
Recently there has been speculation that 85-year-old Pope Francis may be considering resigning the papacy due to health issues. Pope Francis’ predecessor,...
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4.4KMemories of a Mass Murder
St. Valentines Day, February 14th, 2008. I had just arrived home after spending the morning at Northern Illinois University. A little while...
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4.3K1Blaming Mental Illness
I am writing this for those who feel silenced by stigmatizing rhetoric that is being passed around online, so their voices can...
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Election 2022: Reckless vs Feckless
Reckless Republicans have been successful in propagating: and Meanwhile, feckless Democrats have failed to take effective action protecting against: and There has...
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1.6KYou Don’t Like the Way the Country is Going. What Should You Do?
You are sitting at home seething at the news on your computer or television, and you want to do something about it....