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Thursday, August 17, 2017

August 17 News Update


Smoke over the skies of North America is another climate change warning
Trump looms over Al Gore's urgent climate-change doc

Fighting white supremacists: What I learned from Malcolm X
‘They tried to kill my child to shut her up, but … you just magnified her’
World leaders accuse Trump of ‘glossing over’ racist violence
Jewish Labor Committee Condemns Bigotry, Violence in Charlottesville
A Trump Lawyer Echoes the Secessionist Rhetoric *

U.S. court rules Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood funding
KKK Members Convicted In Plot To Kill Black Inmate
Union Pacific lays off 500 managers, 250 other rail workers
State Union Could Drop ‘Fair Share’ Fees In Exchange For 6 Percent Raise
Labor wins the day in ‘Top Chef’ verdict
Metro union to appeal ruling ordering new officer elections
New Convention Center hotel will be union built
AWPPW rejects Georgia-Pacific / Koch Industries concessionary contract
Unions to Trump: No More Trickle-Down Trade Deals
End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers
Sarah Champion resigns as shadow equalities minister
Trump Opens Breach With Party, Military and Industry *
The Night the Oxygen Ran Out in an Indian Hospital *


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