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Breaking Down This Week's Fast Food Strikes in St. Louis and Detroit

AlterNet

The new labor movement spreads to two Midwestern cities.

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Is Cutthroat Capitalism Pushing a Growing Number of Baby Boomers to Suicide?

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

Cops Beat Woman For Filming Another Beating

By Ryan Abbott / Courthouse News

Does God Hate Climate Change?

By Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Factory Occupation

By Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now!

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How's Obamacare Turning Out? Great If You Live in a Blue State, and 'Screw You' If You Have a Republican Governor

George Zimmerman's Defense Team Releases Texts and Photos to Fit Their Racist Narrative

Amid Sexual Assault Crisis in Military, Sergeant Accused of Filming West Point Cadets in the Bathroom

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The Media Apparently Has No Idea How to Deal With a Black Hero

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

U.S. Census Confirms: Mitt Romney Won Abysmal 17 percent of Votes among People of Color.

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Woman Slaps Cop to Quit Smoking

The Fix

California Strawberry Pickers Fired for Fleeing Dangerous Wildfire

Annie-Rose Strasser / Think Progress

Watch: Jon Stewart Tears into Racist and Sexist Democrats

AlterNet

Why Does The Washington Post Think It's Bad News that the Absurd GOP Budget Strategy is Falling Apart?

Dean Baker / Beat the Press

Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week

Dave Johnson / Truthout

OCC Follies: Troubled Borrowers Get Shafted Yet Again

Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

I Was Kidnapped As a Child -- Here's What Happened

Rose Maura Lorre / Salon

Look Out: Corporations Promote ‘Right to Farm’

Margot Ford McMillen / Progressive Populist

The New York Times' Review on Iron Man 3 Misses the Point

Jim Naureckas / FAIR

Public School Cancels Graduation Rather Than Remove Prayer From Ceremony

Katie McDonough / Salon

Hidden Power Grab Stops Communities From Deciding Their Own Futures

David Morris / On the Commons

Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls

Sikivu Hutchinson / Black Agenda Report

Punishing Students For Not Making Eye Contact? How Charter Schools' Prejudiced Policies Undermine Equality

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

3 Pictures That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Guantanamo

Digby / Hullabaloo

Is This America's Worst Prison? The Inspirational Campaign to Close Tamms Supermax

Laurie Jo Reynolds, Stephen F. Eisenman / Creative Time Reports

After 25 Seasons of Perpetuating Racist Stereotypes, Fox Cancels "Cops"

AlterNet

Court Says Labor Board Can't Make Employers Post Workers' Legal Rights

Laura Clawson / Daily Kos

How Dropping the Draft Helped to Turn America Into a Militaristic State

David Sirota / AlterNet

The Horrifying Letter Found in Ariel Castro's House

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

The FBI Doesn't Think It Needs a Warrant to Read Your Email

Andrea Peterson / Think Progress

Amazon Warehouse Workers Forced to Wait at Security Checkpoints Without Getting Paid

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Homeland Insecurity: Why the Government Spent Seven Years and Untold Dollars to Silence One Man

Peter Van Buren / TomDispatch

Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption

Kristin Rawls / AlterNet

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