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Alleging systematic wage theft by both McDonald’s corporate and its franchisees, workers filed seven class-action lawsuits this week seeking unspecified damages from the fast food giant.
Workers filed two suits in Michigan, one in New York, and four in ...[Read more]
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The US had 875,000 people in its terrorist watchlist system as of December 2012. Those secretly blacklisted have no real path to challenge their status, states a new report, thus indefinitely restricting those listed from travel or simply getting a job. ...[Read more]
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Scores of Americans are in an uproar since Food Safety News revealed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will soon allow U.S. chickens to be sent to China for processing before being shipped back to the states for human consumption.
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Academic freedom is under attack in the U.S. Imagine a professor showing the Oscar nominated film 5 Broken Cameras and then having his entire class shut down because it's not pro-Israel.
After Professor Chehade’s in-class screening of the Oscar-nominate ...[Read more]
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Most organic advocates have heard of “Who Owns Organic,” a popular infographic featuring independently owned organic food companies vs. organic companies now owned by Big Food. Unfortunately, Who Owns Organic has recently been updated and organic food ...[Read more]
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We are accustomed to hearing about exorbitant sentencing for drug offenses, but similar sentencing for gun possession is less frequently mentioned. ...[Read more]
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More revelations from the Occupy FOIA request made to FBI. Turns out, there were plans to kill occupy protesters via snipers.
An identified [redacted] of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors in Houston, Texas, if deemed necessar ...[Read more]
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News has just broken about a freedom activist and former Marine named Brandon Raub, who was arrested (apparently without a warrant or being read his rights) on the evening of August 16th. Details are still coming in, but it appears that his “crime” wa ...[Read more]
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Xander is always reaching out to people, so it wasn't surprising to see him talking to police officers outside the Bank of America building on one of the first nights those sidewalks were occupied. In planning for the start of Occupy San Francisco (then k ...[Read more]
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Bahraini Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been sentenced to three years in jail for ...[Read more]
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Ecuador said on Thursday that it had decided to grant political asylum to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Seeking asylum, Mr. Assange has been holed up for two months in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where the police scuffled with and arrest ...[Read more]
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