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• Alternet
• May 18, 2012 Low-Wage Workers in New York Come Together to Fight Greedy Bosses May Day, the Occupy movement and the 99 percent narrative have raised the voices of low-wage workers who joined together under the banner "Organize, Legalize, and Unionize."     Alternet        more   
• May 18, 2012 Where Are the Missing 5 Million Workers? In the Underground Economy The “underground†is always with us. For better and often for worse, it’s how marginalized populations tend to survive—often not very well.     Alternet        more   
• Common Dreams NewsCenter
• May 18, 2012 'An Economy for the 99%': People's G8 Demands 'Robin Hood Tax' developing... Thousands of protesters are in Chicago today for a "People's G8" in a call led by National Nurses United (NNU) to demand an economy for the 99%. read more     Common Dreams NewsCenter        more   
• May 18, 2012 The Organic Watergate: Alarming Report Reveals USDA's Cozy Relationship with Corporate Agribusinesses in 'Organics' Today, the Cornucopia Institute released a report titled The Organic Watergate, revealing widespread corruption in the USDA's organic food monitoring panel -- the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). read more     Common Dreams NewsCenter        more   
• Capitol Hill Blue
• May 18, 2012 Support our view of freedom or we’ll throw your lying, anti-patriotic ass in jail You hear a lot of talk about patriotism and freedom in an election year.  Each side of a political contest claims a monopoly on both buzzwords. But do those who bandy about claims of freedom and patriotism really understand either concept? One would hope they do but based on the way too many use...     Capitol Hill Blue        more   
• May 18, 2012 Anti-war protestors target Obama campaign headquarters A small group of anti-war demonstrators staged a peaceful “die in” on Thursday at President Barack Obama’s election campaign headquarters in Chicago to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan and unmanned drone aircraft attacks overseas. Despite calling ahead, some of the...     Capitol Hill Blue        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• May 18, 2012 How Corporations and Local Governments Use the Poor As Piggy Banks This story first appeared on the Tom Dispatch website. Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. But...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• May 18, 2012 Remember Stuxnet? Why the US is Still Vulnerable This story first appeared on the ProPublica website. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security experts worry it may...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Organizing for America
• May 18, 2012 Friday Facts: Holding Wall Street accountable President Obama took office in the midst one of the worst financial crises in our history, brought on in large part by the bad bets made by Wall Street banks. That’s why he made tackling risky dealings on Wall Street a priority from day one, and signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer...     Organizing for America        more   
• May 18, 2012 Romney economics: A letter from Cindy In a letter to the editor of The Miami Herald yesterday, Cindy Hewitt explained how Romney economics has affected her: From May 1996 to July 1998, I worked as a human resources manager for Dade Behring, a medical manufacturing firm with facilities in Miami. Every time I read about Mitt Romney...     Organizing for America        more   
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