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• Bernie Sanders uses signatures, not money, to get on Texas ballot
• Dallas marchers stress climate and wage justice
• “When Government Helped”: Comparing FDR and Obama
• Review: how corporate America invented Christian America
• Movie Review: "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"
• Sci-fi in “Tomorrowland” makes a good point
• Texans exhale as legislative session ends
• Activists demand re-hiring at Walmart
• "The Water Diviner": A farmer's post-war search for closure
• “There is Power in a Union”: Strong story needs to take our side
• “Ex Machina”: what will the androids do?
• "Avengers: Age of Ultron": Wham! Bam! Kaboom!
• Immigrant rights, anti-police brutality groups unite for May 1
• "Shadows of Liberty": Corporations rule information sources, says documentary
• "Birdman," "Turner," "McFarland": Triple-header film review
• Texans rally for marriage equality
• Lead Belly discography released
• Racism isn't new in Texas
• So many good reasons to see “Wild”
• Television news criticized in "Nightcrawler"
• "Interstellar" says the world may not end
• "The Ballad of Jane Elkins," Texas slave woman hanged
• Turnout is the wildcard in Texas election
• "Pride" tells of solidarity vs. prejudice, winning vs. losing
• "The Liberator" generates some thinking
• Texans hope to change things on Election Day
• "Wetlands” movie review: Exploring secretions and inner selves
• Tulsa park commemorates 1921 race riot
• “What If,” romantic comedy, sells movie tickets
• "Calvary": Chaos and possible redemption
• “The Last Ship”: Life and love while everybody's dying
• Texans rally against ALEC, the right-wing stink tank
• On FX’s “Tyrant” cruelty is normal
• Cuba Caravanistas welcomed in Dallas
• In "Snowpiercer," classes struggle on a train
• "Begin Again" features music industry and people
• “We Are the Best!”: Little anarchists start a band
• Dallas opts to take immigrant children
• Texas Democrats set progressive platform
• Texas Republicans jump back in time
• “Ida”: Women discover socialist Poland and themselves
• UAW and all unions need membership participation
• China and Russia have workers councils but not Chattanooga
• Boosting fighting power, UAW raises dues after hot debate
• UAW’s Bob King: We’re in a war for democracy
• “O” for organizing: UAW unfolds fightback program
• UAW faces big challenges at its 36th Constitutional Convention
• Texas Republicans continue to go for off-the-grid right-wingers
• "Belle": young love in shadow of the slave trade
• March movies that came in like a lamb, went out like a lamb
• Dallas coalition holds action day for immigration reform
• Students support successful union drive for campus workers
• Right wingers besiege Dallas
• Texas MoveOn takes aim at ALEC
• Families react to tragedy in "August: Osage County" and "Nebraska"
• "The Wolf of Wall Street": "Mean Streets" director does "Ugly Street"
• "American Hustle" is not a masterpiece, it's just a lot of fun
• In "Her" boy meets computer, falls in love
• "Philomena:" heartbreak, fortitude, and search for closure
• "The Book Thief": A child looks at fascism
• Buried in my grave, before I'll be a Walmart slave!
• Nothing is happening? Activists are busy in Dallas
• Dallas joins national day of protest over shutdown
• Texas braces for stormy elections
• Saudi girl's story exposes oppression of women
• "The Butler" brings civil rights era to life
• Love, war, and hell in a prison cell
• “Elysium” gives sci-fi twist to immigration, health care
• Cop show reveals the U.S.-Mexico divide
• "The Attack": Can a love story explain the Arab-Israeli conflict?
• Texans stand with women
• “The East” probes ultra-left minds in twisted plot
• Dallas rally says “Restore the Fourth”
• End of slavery celebrated on June 19
• "Nuns on the Bus" tour nation for immigration reform
• Texas clergy and students back Walmart strikers
• New “Star Trek” shows flaws of today’s sci-fi
• Will Texas turn blue?
• Texas style May Day and Cinco de Mayo
• Southwest Airlines: not so luvly to employees
• Artsy liberals deal with nuclear annihilation and their daughter
• Upper meets lower
• Saving Texas schools
• Immigration reform moving ahead in Texas
• Texas pols get kickbacks from corporate welfare
• Theater review: "Chaplin, the Musical"
• Some assembly required for "Seven Psychopaths"
• The 2012 elections changed Texas
• "Vote Transit" says union!
• Early vote begins in Texas
• Strike actions hitting Walmart around the country
• “The Master” is a deep one
• Texas Walmart workers stage “Rally for Respect”
• The "47 Percent" welcomes Romney
• Marine's father deported week after Afghanistan deployment
• Dallas leads Texas in Labor Day celebrations
• North Texas takes stand to save the right to retire
• "Ruby Sparks": Guy creates perfect girlfriend, who created him?
• Movie audience laughs and cringes at “Killer Joe”
• Texas elections hinge, so far, on big money
• “Trishna”: Love story twisted by class oppression
• Memorial honors fallen immigrants
• Hollywood hokum conquers all
• Judge sides with American Airlines, blocks employees' vote
• What's new about the Texas Democrats?
• Good summer movies: Moonrise, Marigold, Bernie, Hysteria
• Texas primary election teaches lessons
• Dallas area officials slam American Airlines union-busting
• CitiGroup stockholders nix CEO’s $25 million as MoveOn pickets meet
• Class struggle boils over
• Occupy for "Fair Trade, not Free Trade"
• Christians diverge in Holy Week observances
• "In Darkness": How a few Polish Jews escaped the Nazis
• Got Hope? "Detachment" doesn't!
• Texas groups protest banks, sonogram law
• Union, civil rights struggles converge in songfest
• Teachers stand up and fight
• Targeted victims protest American Airlines bankruptcy plans
• “A Separation”: revelatory film about life in contemporary Iran
• Dallas "funeral" protests foreclosures
• Texans will fight voter suppression
• Spielberg's "War Horse" is terrific, moving epic
• Finding Joe Hill in new biography
• "Young Adult": You can't go home again to Kilimanjaro
• Gene Sharp has half a recipe for revolution
• Go see "Hugo," "Descendants," skip "Melancholia"
• Occupy Dallas evicted and arrested, not beaten
• "J. Edgar": masterpiece film about master manipulator
• Protests slam closing of Dallas main post office
• "Skin I Live In" gets very weird
• Was the Nazi lesson learned?
• Oklahoma City Laborfest a stunner!
• Radical history will come to life at Oklahoma Laborfest
• Crying and laughing about the holocaust?
• Dallas demonstration demands jobs
• Jobs with Justice needed more than ever
• Class war: Luxury country club demands tax cut
• Democracy by appointment only
• Texans soak up union culture
• Employers cheat workers and the tax man
• In John Sayles' "Amigo" God was busy somewhere else
• Immigrant worker is modest hero in "A Better Life"
• UAW sues military contractor over union-busting
• Union culture making a comeback
• Do Texans "believe" in Rick Perry?
• Reuther story gets new addition
• “American Dream” in Dallas: Organizing never felt so good
• Jobs crisis worsens, Texans call for people power
• Texas legislature finally finishes, leaving trail of wreckage
• Texas AFL-CIO meet was bright spot in dark sky