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Tuesday, thousands will demonstrate at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing to protest a frontal assault on working people. Republican majorities in the state House and Senate have vowed to jam through right-to-work legislation this week. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, who originally said this wasn’t part of his agenda, has flip-flopped and said he would sign the legislation.
Join us in challenging corporate America to end the multi-billion dollar trade deficit with minority vendors and consumers and working to assure equal opportunity for diverse employees, entrepreneurs, and consumers.
Rev. Jesse Jackson and 13 Sensata Technologies employees were arrested today in a protest at the Sensata plant in Freeport, IL. The group was apprehended on plant property in an attempt to meet with management to make the case for keeping the plant open and saving the workers’ jobs...
Every Saturday night Rev. Jesse Jackson hosts a lively panel discussion on events in the headlines and some below the radar.
We are all shocked and dismayed by the massacre in Colorado. This incident comes after multiple college campus and high school shootings that have stunned the country over the past years. Last year, FBI crime reports show that 8,775 out of 12,996 total murders in the U.S. were committed using firearms. The U.S. experiences about three times the level of gun violence as a country like Great Britain.
The Aurora shootings should serve as a wake up call to every citizen. None of us is safe in a nation where assault weapons are readily available. We need to revive the ban on assault weapons now.
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