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Moderators note: In North Carolina it is illegal for a public employee union to bargain or negotiate a contract with the workers employer.

"Labor and community groups supporting the efforts by Boeing workers to form a union will also be in attendance," the IAM's announcement states. Evans, the IAM's lead organizer in North Charleston, and Ken Riley, the longtime president of the local longshoremen's union, are scheduled to speak at Friday's event.

Extinction: Lisa Allen Ortiz, child of Mendocino county, California knows a thing or two about birds and about how precarious are the lives of many species, speaks of our impending "civic sorrow."

Fire-breathing rhetoric, or raving three a.m. tweets, may assuage the anger of those left behind by the Reagan revolution, at least for a while. But for how long? And what happens then?

Trump took the oath of office on Friday with his associates under investigation by the FBI, aided by the NSA, CIA and Treasury Department.

It’s possible that the EU cannot be reformed, but popular resistance could provide an alternative to disintegration

To watch him take the oath was to bear witness to democracy’s fragility.