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Allentown leaders, residents rally for immigration reform

The Express-Times - June 18, 2013, By Sarah Cassi - Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski and City Council President Julio...

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Fed, Eager to Show It’s Listening, Welcomes Protesters

Fed, Eager to Show It’s Listening, Welcomes Protesters

WASHINGTON — When a dozen protesters in green T-shirts showed up two years ago at the Federal Reserve’s annual...

For Some Starbucks Workers, Job Leaves Bitter Taste

CBS MoneyWatch - September 26, 2014, by Alain Sherter - Liberte Locke, a 32-year-old "barista" at a Starbucks (...

Puerto Rico Activists Crash Federal Reserve Panel With Creative Protest

NEW YORK — Over a dozen activists descended on a building where Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and her three living...

[created] | Published by: The Philidelphia Inquirer

Under Trump, local governments become activists

Under Trump, local governments become activists

Christine Knapp had been on maternity leave for nearly three months, but on Wednesday the director of the mayor’s...

The Philidelphia Inquirer

Black Community Seeks the Power of the Ballot

For black communities in the United States, presidential election participation rates are strong and momentum is...

Internal Emails Show ICE Agents Struggling to Substantiate Trump’s Lies About Immigrants

As hundreds of undocumented immigrants were rounded up across the country last February in the first mass raids of the...

The Intercept
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'Welcome to Florida!'

'Welcome to Florida!'

“The Hispanic Federation, a group that outraised most of the other groups for Puerto Rico relief efforts, called a...

The Weekly Standard | Civic Engagement

Progressive Groups Go On The Offensive Against A Fed Interest Rate Hike

Progressive groups are launching a national campaign this week to pressure the Federal Reserve not to raise interest...

[created] | Published by: The Nation

How to Join the ‘Day Without Immigrants’ on May Day

How to Join the ‘Day Without Immigrants’ on May Day

A coalition led by immigrants and workers is aiming to mark this year’s May Day with the biggest workers strike and...

The Nation | 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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