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Nick Coles previews the scholarly and creative works that were recognized in this year's Working-Class Studies Association awards.

We all want to believe a recovery is here, but indicators are that it's not. We're getting swindled again by banks and politicians.

While so far protests remain isolated, poor conditions across Cambodia, and poorer Asian states for that matter, could result in more widespread demonstrations. Bangladesh may be garnering most of the headlines due to recent tragedies, but conditions across poorer Asian states remain equally dire. Still, governments are hesitant to step in out of fear that manufacturers will relocate elsewhere, taking jobs and tax revenues with them.

'If you thought you had a fight a month ago, you ain't seen nothing yet,' say protest leaders as 151 arrested

The Tulsa Race Riot stands as one of the most violent episodes of dispossession in U.S. history.

Bulent Arinc apologises to original environmental protesters as two men die in continuing demonstrations.

Internet Blocking in Turkey, Jordan and the U.K.; Before the Elections in Iran, the US Says It's OK to Sell Them Cellphones; Internet Revolution in Cuba

More than any of the other civil rights widows, Myrlie Evers showed America her rage. She let the nation see her unfiltered emotion when two all-white juries refused to convict Medgar’s killer, during a time when black anger was not an acceptable display of emotion. She wrote a book and began it with this line: “Somewhere in Mississippi lives the man who murdered my husband.”