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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

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April Democratic Left
Getting Longer But Lower
Applied ecologists in a landscape of fear
May calls for cabinet showdown as MPs reject all Brexit options
Harry Potter among books burned by priests in Poland
US will run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump closes Mexico border
Saudi oil company named world's most profitable business
Canada imposes carbon tax on four provinces
Insects have ‘no place to hide’ from climate change, study warns
Dartmouth’s temporary workers could be a long-term problem
On Cesar Chavez Day, a look at the labor leader's complex legacy
Exxon weighs sale of Nigerian oil and gas fields
Democratic Green New Deal Defectors Chart Their Own Climate Path
The Green New Deal Can Work – Here’s How
Impasse Over Aid for Puerto Rico Stalls Billions in Federal Disaster Relief *


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Monday, April 1, 2019

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Breaches Everywhere’: Midwest Levees Burst, Tough Questions Follow *

Hospital Nurses Demand ‘Safe Staffing’ Levels *

Trump’s Order to Open Arctic Waters to Drilling Was Unlawful, Judge Finds *
Sheep nibble Madrid's largest park into shape
More than 1 million acres of U.S. cropland ravaged by floods
50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong *
Fire destroys Tennessee civil rights center's main building
Record-breaking floods force evacuations on South Dakota reservation
Gaza border protests: 190 killed and 28,000 injured in a year of bloodshed
Migrant child who died in US custody had infection
A Texan’s Big Bet on a Fossil-Fuel Future for California *
Seven killed in China plant explosion
Brazil's Bolsonaro begins Israel visit
How Europe is faring on renewable energy targets
Air pollution hotspots in Europe
Leaked reports reveal severe abuse of Saudi political prisoner
Memphis Leaders And City Union Workers Hit Impasse In Negotiations
UC workers to strike April 10 over alleged ‘intimidation tactics’
Italian workers demonstrate outside Aviano
GOP bill replaces Cesar Chavez's birthday with 'National Border Control Day'
Why Are We Still Slaughtering the American Bison? *


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Friday, March 29, 2019

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Workers at Conagra's Louisville plant reject labor contract

9 Months After Janus, AFSCME Reports 94% Retention

Fueled by climate change, extreme weather disasters hit 62 million in 2018

Solidarity with Algerian people in their struggle for popular sovereignty!

The Green New Deal: A Strategy for a More Equal United States

Death toll in Dhaka office tower fire soars to 25

Construction worker falls 23 stories to his death in KC

Agnès Varda, beloved French New Wave director, dies aged 90

US immigration system 'at breaking point'

IcebergTwice the Size of New York City About to Split From Antarctica *

Top Democrat Assails Interior Secretary Nomination *






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Thursday, March 28, 2019

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Week In Review March 27
Trump Says Puerto Rico gets too much storm assistance
Local 3299 files Unfair Labor Practice charge against UC
Exhausted migrants crowded under a bridge in Texas
Trump Owns the Economy Now, for Better or Worse *
Senate Blocks Green New Deal but Expends Plenty of Carbon Talking *



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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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Musicians Union Vows Fight for Streaming Residuals
UMass Medical, labor union reach agreement for 2,600 workers
Thousands of Uber drivers are striking in Los Angeles
UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages
Wall Street Pressure Prompted GM Plant Closures
Blackstone Called Out For Inflating Rents, Aggressive Evictions
Bolsonaro orders Brazil army to mark 55th anniversary of military coup
Green New Deal: Senate defeats proposal
After Boeing Crashes, Sharp Questions About Industry Regulating Itself *
People Actually Like the Green New Deal *
Grew Up Around Fossil Fuels--Now Their Jobs Are in Renewables *


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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

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2018 spike in energy demand spells climate trouble
USMCA opens a can of worms
New Yorkers Mark Triangle Shirtwaist Anniversary
Rutgers faculty union authorizes strike
Lordstown Workers Unlikely To Benefit From GM's New EV
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Offers Only Two Dozen Permanent Jobs
Homophobic Sign Posted at Queens Subway Station
UK scientists try to put the brakes on Brexit
Wounded Wilderness: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 30 Years Later
'My Generation Has Been Fooled'
'We Demand Food for Thought'
Segregation the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years *


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Monday, March 25, 2019

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One million join march against Brexit as Tories plan to oust May
Lawyers Ramp Up Challenges to Trump’s Oil Drilling Push
Major Pipeline Delays Leave Canada’s Tar Sands Struggling
Teamsters, YRC reach tentative labor contract, union says
UC hit with third labor strike in a year
Labor Unions of the World, Unite
Canada in the Age of Working-Class Power
Experts warn Midwest flood risk may persist for months
Free Transit in Ottawa
Copenhagen Wants to Show How Cities Can Fight Climate Change *
What Makes a Catastrophic Flood? *


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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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