October 2 News Update

‘Hands Up, Don’t Ship!’ Minneapolis UPS Workers Protest Shipments to Missouri Police - See more at: http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2014/08/hands-dont-ship-minneapolis-ups-workers-protest-shipments-missouri-police#sthash.rJeEoDbc.dpuf

Seattle Boycotts Hyatt while a Boston Boycott Ends
400,000 March Against Climate Change
Students Unfurl the 'Umbrella Revolution' in Hong Kong
White House: Civilian protection policy doesn't apply to Syria strikes
Rates of antibiotic-resistant 'superbug' spike
Lack of ice forces some 35,000 walruses to chill on Alaska shore
Republicans craft 2015 plan to force Obama's hand on Keystone
Heavyweight South African state union demands 15 percent pay rise
Climate Controversy: Does the 2 Degree Goal Need to Go?
2 workers trapped after trench collapse in Boonton, NJ
Lessons From the British Columbia Teacher's Strike
World's Beaches Become Victims of Construction Boom
Stephen Harper to announce Canada's combat role in ISIS fight Friday
Locked out transit workers and city back at table
What's in a name: Indian, native, aboriginal or indigenous?
Washington’s unemployment rate continues to climb
New York Times to cut 100 newsroom jobs
Egypt Seizes Newspapers to Censor an Article *
At Berkeley, Free (Though Subdued) Speech, 50 Years Later *
Deportation Up in 2013; Border Sites Were Focus *
Bankruptcy Judge in California Challenges Sanctity of Pensions *

Stories from the New York Times will be followed with a *. The Times pay wall policy allows free access to only about ten articles a month.

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