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Belafonte looked out at the crowded room of pacifists, many of whom are no longer young and said, “Keep on singing.”

A growing number of city workers, teachers, and other union workers can’t live here anymore.

“We have a revenue crisis, and we know where the money is, it’s on Wall Street.”

"... [H]uman rights abuses under the existing government continue to threaten basic civil liberties, opposition candidates do not enjoy a level playing field, and state security forces are taking on an increasingly central, and ominous role in context of the election."

At his best, Ireland brought a philosophical and critical mind to the daily news.

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One year on, it's painfully clear that society's choices mean the hurricane hit our poorest communities harder than the well-to-do.

The AFL-CIO isn’t lifting a finger to help the White House — it remains in negotiations at the White House and on Capitol Hill to change elements of the law it finds objectionable to workers. Those talks were put on hold earlier this month during the government shutdown — a far larger concern for the federal government employee unions — and have begun to restart only in recent days, according to officials from multiple unions.