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Legacy of Local 22 to be honored on April 20 in Winston-Salem

05 Apr, 2013

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05 Apr, 2013

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Legacy of Local 22 to be honored on April 20 in Winston-Salem

On April 20, 2013 - seventy years later - a coalition of labor, faith, and community members will unveil a commemorative state marker to celebrate tobacco Local 22 and the anniversary of their historic sit-down strike that sparked a wave of interracial union organizing in the Jim Crow South.

Legacy of Local 22 to be honored on April 20 in Winston-Salem

The Art Pope-backed plan to rig all future elections

The Art Pope-backed plan to rig all future elections

05 Apr, 2013

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The Art Pope-backed plan to rig all future elections

What does over $100,000 buy you? If you're Art Pope, it buys you a state Senator and a bevy of bills to restrict ballot access and make it even easier to buy elections.

The Art Pope-backed plan to rig all future elections

Governor plans to sellout Medicaid recipients

Governor plans to sellout Medicaid recipients

05 Apr, 2013

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Governor plans to sellout Medicaid recipients

How do you take North Carolina's model Medicaid program - the highly efficient one with the lowest rate of spending growth in the nation, run by the award-winning non-profit Community Care North Carolina - and make a buck off of it? By selling it to Wall Street!

Governor plans to sellout Medicaid recipients

State Senators doing bankers' bidding, AGAIN!

State Senators doing bankers' bidding, AGAIN!

05 Apr, 2013

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State Senators doing bankers' bidding, AGAIN!

Between SB 89 and this new monstrosity, SB 489, it would seem that state senators care more about bankers' ability to trap their constituents in a never-ending debt cycle than about governing for the good of their constituents.

State Senators doing bankers' bidding, AGAIN!

Let’s get ready to rumble!

Let’s get ready to rumble!

28 Mar, 2013

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Let’s get ready to rumble!

North Carolinians, tired of paying the costs for the lack of tax fairness – the root cause of austerity politics in Congress and tax changes on Jones Street – will finally get a chance to settle the score between the people and the powerful when champions for both sides face off at a public showdown on Bicentennial Mall at 12:30 PM on Monday, April 15th – Tax Day.

Let’s get ready to rumble!

Rally to save six-day delivery on March 24th

Rally to save six-day delivery on March 24th

22 Mar, 2013

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Rally to save six-day delivery on March 24th

Letter carriers, other postal employees, and their families will rally in Charlotte and in Raleigh this Sunday against an unlawful edict by the Post Master General that would end Saturday mail delivery and add thousands more Americans to unemployment rolls at a time when our fragile economic recovery is not secured.

Rally to save six-day delivery on March 24th