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Comcast arrests spotlight Occupy issues: fairness vs. big biz

Nine Occupy Wall Street activists held a sit-in and were arrested at the Comcast Center in downtown Philadelphia urging the giant cable company to pay its fair share.

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What happens to children after parents are detained and deported?

You're put in a detention center hundreds of miles away with absolutely no right to see your kids for months, sometimes years.

Economy adds paltry 80,000 jobs, official jobless rate 9 percent

Just 80,000 jobs were added in the U.S. economy in October and the official unemployment rate was 9 percent, almost unchanged from September.

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Border Occupy movement: deadlines, police violence, solidarity

Police visited the site of the Occupation in the city's central San Jacinto Plaza and warned occupiers to vacate.

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Construction workers more likely to die on the job

Over their careers, construction workers have a one in 200 chance of dying on the job, five times what the government considers the "significant" risk.

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Thousands join largely peaceful Occupy Oakland protest

Nov. 2 in Oakland was packed with rallies, marches, gatherings of children and families, and a disability community action. Later a picket line of 5,000 shut down the Port of Oakland, the nation's fifth busiest port, when longshore workers refused to cross it.

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Tennessee Gov. Haslam cuts budget short

Considering the many cuts found in the Governor's budget, some wonder why he continues to spend public funds by ordering the arrest of peaceful protesters at Occupy Nashville

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Wall Street occupation grows by the day

The occupation movement, which seems to have started spontaneously, reflects issues people have been concerned about for quite some time.

Service Employees sue South Carolina over anti-immigrant law

Once again, the Service Employees have joined a private lawsuit, and supported an Obama administration lawsuit, challenging anti-immigrant laws.

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Occupy movement holds dance party in America's heartland

Occupy Columbus marched from their permanent site on the west lawn of the Ohio Statehouse to the Columbus Police Department to hold a dance party.

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