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University of California campuses and medical centers were hit with a one day strike on Wednesday,November 20 by AFSCME Local 3299 which represents 22,000 Service and Patient Care Technical Workers. Local 3299 says the central issue is safe staffing.

Remembering a passionate activist against the death penalty.

The obstacles Occupy faced were not significantly greater than any other movement, and the successes of past movements prove that these obstacles are not insurmountable.

Native American Books that Tell the Real Thanksgiving Story; Wampanoags to March First at Plymouth; Dallas Kennedy-Haters Documented in Pictures; Black Theatre Groups in Trouble; We Are Living in the Anthropocene Era, can't You Tell?

UN, humanitarian groups warn of spiraling crisis in the Central African Republic.

"There are always going to be menial jobs, but we can make them better or worse. And it seems to me the demands of efficiency at the cost of individual's health and wellbeing - it's got to be balanced." - Prof Michael Marmot

Three reviews of the film 'The Hunger Games' based on the third book in the popular series by Suzanne Collins.

Pope Francis makes it clear in his Apostolic Exhortation "EVANGELII GAUDIUM" that he shares little in common with U.S. conservatives.