Today in women's history: Mother Jones ordered to stop "stirring up" miners
She was banished from more towns and was held incommunicado in more jails in more states than any other union leader of the time.
Thousands in Harlem rally against gun violence
People at the rally. like most New Yorkers, seemed to agree that good jobs and good quality education for all are necessary steps to ending gun violence on the streets.
Today in women's history: Mary Joyce ends thousand-mile sled dog trip
During her thousand-mile trek, she endured -60º temperatures, primitive terrain, and minimal communication, making the journey a harrowing one.
“Stop breaking up families, immigration reform now,” demand protests
The civil disobedience at Federal Plaza was one of 10 actions that took place around the country organized by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement.
Today in women’s history: Triangle sweatshop fire kills 146
A total of 146 workers - almost all of them immigrant women - are killed in a fire at New York's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, March 25, 1911.
Bus tour solicits New Yorkers' priorities for schools
NEW YORK - After more than a decade of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's corporate restructuring of public education, a coalition of community groups hit the streets to ask New Yorkers, especially parents, what their priorities really were.
GOP plans to litter budget with anti-environment amendments
Republicans plan to attach 110 anti-environment amendments to the Senate budget bill, not merely in the interest of climate change denial, but as a way of giving gifts to big corporations.
Today in women's history: Anne Hutchinson banned from Bay Colony
Not enough is said today about the role of women in formulating the basic beliefs we have about the nature of freedom itself.
Minimum wage workers press Senate for hike
WASHINGTON - For seven years, Carolle Fleurio has been a cook at a family restaurant in Stockbridge, Ga., and even though she enjoys the job, she told a Senate panel here, it's tough to raise a family on $8 an hour.
Chained CPI equals benefit cuts for retirees, veterans
The billionaire-funded campaign against Social Security has gone into high gear, and it's called chained CPI.
