Medina, other immigration reform fasters, step aside for reinforcements
Eliseo Medina and his fasting colleagues ended their D.C. vigil by handing off the fast to a group of successors.
Election mandate calls for unity and jobs
Led by New Haven Rising, unions of Yale University workers and community groups, hundreds of volunteers knocked on doors across the city this summer and fall to discuss issues and organize a large voter turnout.
Plans to make Black Friday biggest worker mobilization ever
Walmart workers, the nation's labor leaders, and community leaders from all across the U.S. announced plans to turn the busiest holiday shopping day of the year into one of the largest mobilizations of workers in U.S. history.
National disgrace: Boehner blocks immigration vote
Once again John Boehner has allowed a right-wing extremist cabal in Congress to control the fate of important legislation.
Dem lawmakers: Slow down on Pacific trade bill
The lawmakers said the two pacts, especially the TPP, cover far more than trade.
Gun-wielding protestors intimidate Texas mothers
Four members of MDA were lunching at the Blue Mesa Grill in Arlington, Texas, when dozens of Open Carry protesters brandishing long arms showed up in the parking lot.
Detroit seeks answers in killing of Renisha McBride
The investigation is ongoing but so far, no one has been charged. Michigan is a stand-your-ground state and at a Saturday press conference inside Historic King Solomon Baptist Church, Rev. Charles Williams II took special aim at the law.
Government shutdown pushes jobless rate up
WASHINGTON - The federal government shutdown for the first half of October, imposed by tea party Republicans who refused to fund the government unless they could kill the Affordable Care Act, pushed the nation's jobless rate up that month by 0.1percent to 7.3 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
McConnell tries to make ENDA contingent on right to work for less
Mitch McConnell and his BFF, Rand Paul, are trying to weaken or kill ENDA by attaching to it a provision that would have created a national "right to work" for less law.
Cutting food assistance increases hunger
Last week the Illinois Watchdog published an article that trivialized the effects of the Nov. 1 SNAP benefit cuts, stating they were "neither a surprise nor a problem."
