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Between the Lines: Charter Schools, A Better Education for Some at a Cost to Others

Five students are suing the state for a better education — for some.


In September, five anonymous students filed a suit against the state in Suffolk County Superior...

Watch the video for Death Cab For Cutie's new anti-Donald Trump song Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/death-cab-for-cutie/97016#EkDo9zizovyxV1uy.99

Death Cab For Cutie have released a new anti-Donald Trump song.


The track, 'Million Dollar Loan', is one of 30 tracks being released over the next 30 days in the...

New Musical Express | Fighting for an Inclusive Democracy

Es tiempo que reconsideremos lo que significa la seguridad en nuestras comunidades

La extrema vigilancia policial y la criminalización masiva de nuestras comunidades de color es la crisis moral de nuestros tiempos.

Estados Unidos tiene la población más grande de personas...

El Diario | Justice Transformation

Was the ‘Original Bargain’ with Charter Schools a Raw Deal?

The Washington Post - October 5, 2014, by Valerie Strauss - Charter school advocates didn’t like it recently when Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform...

Fed votes to keep key interest rate near 0%, stays mum on future hike

Federal Reserve policymakers Wednesday voted to keep the central bank’s benchmark interest rate near zero percent and offered no new hints of when it would enact the first hike since 2006.

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Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up
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Immigration Advocates on SB 4: We’re Resisting in Texas

Immigration Advocates on SB 4: We’re Resisting in Texas

Grassroots leaders and local officials wasted little time organizing a coordinated campaign to fight SB 4, a new Texas law that targets cities, towns and sheriffs that don’t cooperate with federal...

Equal Voice

‘Look at me when I’m talk­ing to you!’: Crying protesters confront Jeff Flake in Capitol elevator

After Sen. Jeff Flake’s announcement that he would, in fact, vote to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, the emotional debate over the confirmation spilled into the halls...

The Washington Post | Civic Engagement

Biggest U.S. Mass Protest & Rally Ever Staged for $15 Wage Set for April

Sky Valley Chronicle - April 1, 2015 - According to organizers, it's going to be huge. Fast food workers across the country, evidently unmoved by the Reagan era inspired...

Raising the Bar for Workers and Families
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Fed Up With the Senate

Fed Up With the Senate

Right now, there are key vacancies at a vital government institution. President Barack Obama has fulfilled his duty and put forward eminently qualified nominees to fill the vacancies. Yet despite...

US News & World Report | Building a National Campaign for a Strong Economy: Fed Up

Dying to Entertain Us: Celebrities Keep ODing on Opioids and No One Cares

Repeating the success of the Ryan White Act on the opioid front would require a massive advocacy movement in the coming years. Longtime activist Jennifer Flynn Walker, director of mobilization and...

The Village Voice | Civic Engagement

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Perkins was a key writer of New Deal policies. Known as an expert on health and safety policy reforms in New York state, Frances Perkins was tapped by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor in his cabinet - the first woman to serve.

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Frances Perkins was born in a world on fire. In the early 1900s Robber Barons didn’t care about workers rights or the safety of children that worked in their factories. “Safety laws” as we know them today didn’t exist- and the wealthy actively fought against them.

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