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Friday, January 12, 2018

January 12 News Update


Firefighters still battling oil tanker blaze off China coast after six days
New York City just declared war on the oil industry
New round of oil drilling goes deeper into Ecuador's Yasuní national park
Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling *


MN labor provides topics, and prizes for History Day projects

Trump pans immigration proposal bringing people from 'shithole countries'
Dreamers react to Trump's Daca dispute: 'we feel like bargaining chips'
Trump’s Vulgar Immigration Remarks Alarm Lawmakers *
From Norway to Haiti, Trump’s Comments Stir Fresh Outrage *

Trump visit to London called off amid fears of mass protests
What we learned when women said #MeToo
The Rage of the Poor in Iran
Quebec ABI aluminum union workers locked out
Major Russian Labor Union Disbanded by Court For Foreign Ties
Wisconsin Mulls Limiting Pro-Worker Local Ordinances
Dutch reporters confront new US envoy
Medicaid: Trump opens door to take away coverage
Polish MPs back even tougher restrictions on abortion
Walmart Raised Wages. Then It Closed 63 Stores. *
Baltimore Hospital Patient Discharged at Bus Stop, Stumbling and Cold *


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.
Posted by Bill Onasch at 5:55 AM

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Retiree member of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1287. Active member National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. Webmaster of kclabor.org since March, 2000. Former Vice-President of ATU 1287. In Minneapolis during Seventies-Eighties held several posts in UE Local 1139 including Local President and Shop Chairman at Litton Microwave. Charter member of Labor Party Advocates. Founding member of US Labor Against the War.
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