August 29 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

Accident traps at least 25 miners in Nicaragua
Hundreds protest Obama deportation policies at ICE, White House
Ralph Fasanella, Lest We Forget
Students at the Barricades
US to again issue Calif. oil drilling leases
Kansas City Council repeals move to privatize ambulance billing
Evictions Soar in Hot Market; Renters Suffer *
A New American Oil Bonanza *

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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