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Occupy Wall Street Labor March Special Coverage
October 5, 2011If the networks won't bring the protesters into the studio, we're going to bring a broadcast "studio" to the protesters. On Wednesday, October 5, 4-7 pm eastern watch special collaborative coverage of the Occupy Wall St Labor March at http://www.livestream/lauraflandersNurses Warn Washington: Don't Cut Care
July 22, 2011The Economic Policy Institute notes that for the poorest 40 percent of 65-and-older households, Social Security payouts constitute more than four-fifths of total income - and as RN Deborah Burger points out, patients are already making deadly choices between medications, rent and food.DeMoro: It's Not About A Paycheck
July 17, 2011The lobbyists and their pals in the media would have us believe the big corporations will leave this country if asked to pay their fair share. We've heard that story before.Safety First: Texas Terminations Put Patients at Risk
July 15, 2011To hear the debate over union rights in Washington, you'd think workers' rights had nothing to do with people's safety, only profits and threats to the same. The struggle of seven nurses in Brownsville Texas puts a different spin on things.Richard Trumka: We Need to Focus on our Friends
July 9, 2011Even before the budget debate -- and the breathtakingly bad June jobs numbers -- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka was warning fair-weather Democrats not to count on organized labor's blank check.America's Not Broke but our Healthcare System is
June 24, 2011For how long have we said that women are the canaries in society's coal mine? It's still true. Mostly ignored in the money media, nurses, like teachers, and other female-dominated professions are feeling the pain that Wall Street and the Beltway are blocking out.Walmart: Too Big to Sue?
June 21, 2011Familiar with "too big to fail?" Welcome now to "too big to sue". Workers everywhere took a hit with the Supreme Court's gift to the biggest businesses.Dorian Warren: The 'Walmart Way'
June 20, 2011"It's a targeting of workers' abilities to come together against big companies," says Columbia University professor Dorian Warren of the Walmart v. Duke case. The case was decided in favor of the company this week.Locked-Out Steelworkers Bring Fight to Honeywell
May 12, 2011We first met the steelworkers from Metropolis, Illinois in Madison, Wisconsin early this spring, where workers from all over the country gathered to defend the right to collectively bargain. Until their lockout in June of last summer, these workers ran Honeywell's uranium conversion plant, the only one of its kind in the country, and they depended on their collectively bargaining rights to defend the health and safety of themselves and their small community.Anika Rahman: Fighting the Womancession
May 12, 2011"I imagine a world in which my seven-year-old daughter doesn't say to me 'I can't be the president because I'm a girl.'" Anika Rahman was horrified and yet not surprised when her daughter expressed that sentiment. As the new CEO and president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, Anika works to empower women to fight for their right to control their bodies and their lives.
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