The Workers Defense Project, founded in 2002, has emerged as one of the nation's most creative organizations for immigrant workers.
New laws banning abortion after 20 weeks are based on pseudoscience -- and real research proves it conclusively
Women’s-health clinics have been under assault for years. Abortions make up just 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood performs. Planned Parenthood estimates that 130,000 women in Texas go without preventive health care, like breast-cancer screenings, due to Texas' anti-abortion cuts to women’s-health-care funding, and a lot of those women will die as a result.
Alarmingly, the Lone Star state has plenty of company when it comes to extreme measures that will harm women and families.
Fans of Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator whose marathon filibuster stopped an anti-abortion bill in its tracks, are expressing their sentiments in Amazon reviews of the shoes that Wendy wore.
Chris Kromm and Sue Sturgis at the Institute for Southern Studies argue in the latest issue of The American Prospect that a state can become both more progressive and more conservative at the same time, and that is actually happening in North Carolina -- creating an especially turbulent moment in the state's political history.
This May Day, we might want to return to the similarities between the acts of violence outside of Dhaka and in Boston, both events resulted in senseless bloodshed of innocent victims. While we might debate how to prevent tragedies like the Boston marathon bombings, it is abundantly clear that enforcement of safety standards and basic regulations would help prevent the sheer scale of terror and violence from being unleashed yet again in Bangladesh.
Though the West Chemical and Fertilizer Company hadn’t had a safety inspection since 1985 and had lied to the Environmental Protection Agency about explosives on the property, it will likely and literally get away with murder.
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