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Press Release: November 25, 2014 Tasha Moro; Communications Coordinator; communications@nlg.org; 212-679-5100, ext. 15

Just in time for Black Friday and the holiday shopping season, the measure —aimed at giving retail staffers more predictable schedules and access to extra hours —will make the worker-friendly city even friendlier.

Last year the Labor Campaign for Single Payer posted our Briefing Paper, ”10 Things Unions Need to Look Out for When Bargaining Under Obamacare.” We asserted that, “because it relies on employment-based coverage to provide the lion’s share of healthcare insurance while, perversely, undermining key aspects of that coverage, we have concluded that the ACA will place new stresses and pressures on collective bargaining.”

Sorry, immigrants; Pardon us, zombies; Whoopsy daisy, Kim; Mea culpa, Catholics; Ahem, Cos?

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words.

French Communists debated the outline of what might be the left of tomorrow that is the subject of debate, while at the same time were united in opposition to the current Socialist-led goernment free-trade policy, a policy “of moral and social regression.”

Chile's Constitution, has its roots in the Pinochet dictatorship and consecrates the neoliberal model, As a result the economy is concentrated in the hands of 0.01 per cent of the population, while two thirds of the nation's GDP is in the hands of foreign capital

We need your help. We don't intend to stand still. The Left has a big role to play in the battles ahead -- including forging a vision of a society in which there is more, not less, democracy, equality and economic security. It's a diverse and vibrant Left, and it is the mission of Portside to promote it. In the next year, we will improve and expand Portside, making it easier to use, to search and to share. We need your contributions to guarantee we survive and grow.

We need your help. We don't intend to stand still. The Left has a big role to play in the battles ahead -- including forging a vision of a society in which there is more, not less, democracy, equality and economic security. It's a diverse and vibrant Left, and it is the mission of Portside to promote it. In the next year, we will improve and expand Portside, making it easier to use, to search and to share. We need your contributions to guarantee we survive and grow.

When the District Attorney says, "we'll present the evidence and let the grand jury decide," that's malarkey. If he takes that approach, then he's already decided to abdicate his role in the process as an advocate for justice. At that point, there's no longer a prosecutor in the room guiding the grand jurors, and — more importantly — no state official acting on behalf of the victim, Michael Brown...