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Assange Wins People’s Choice Human Rights Award

In this Feb. 1, 2012 file photo, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, arrives at the Supreme Court in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) For the past 11 years, the nonprofit organization, Global Exchange, has held an awards program honoring people across the globe for their work in human rights. This year’s award winner, nominated and chosen by […]

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke
In this Feb. 1, 2012 file photo, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, arrives at the Supreme Court in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

For the past 11 years, the nonprofit organization, Global Exchange, has held an awards program honoring people across the globe for their work in human rights. This year’s award winner, nominated and chosen by people around the globe, was WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange. The awards creator, Global Exchange, also selects an individual or group each

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Temp Worker Scalded By Chemical Eruption, Management Does Nothing: Legislation In Works

Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee Chairman Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 22, 2013. Harkin is co-sponsoring the Protecting America’s Workers Act, which would strengthen penalties for OSHA violations. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Carlos Centeno was a Mexican immigrant that came to America to find […]

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

Carlos Centeno was a Mexican immigrant that came to America to find a better life for himself, his partner and his son. A hardworking man, Centeno held jobs as a bartender, newspaper deliveryman and a warehouse forklift driver. In 2010, after being laid off from his warehouse job, Centeno put in an application with Ron’s Staffing Services, a

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A Conversation With U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomoyor

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan arrives on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, for the Presidential Barack Obama’s ceremonial swearing-in ceremony during the 57th Presidential Inauguration. (AP Photo/Win McNamee, Pool) MINNEAPOLIS – (Mint Press) – Raised in a housing project in the tough neighbourhoods of the […]

Jo Erickson
بواسطة Jo Erickson

MINNEAPOLIS - (Mint Press) - Raised in a housing project in the tough neighbourhoods of the Bronx, Sonia Sotomayor has overcome racial profiling and the limitations of class to achieve the unexpected — Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic Justice and the third woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. Writing her autobiography, “My Beloved

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Study Says Fracking and Earthquakes ‘Potentially Related’

With the skyline of Youngstown, Ohio in the distance, a brine injection well owned by Northstar Disposal Services LLC is seen in Youngstown on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2011. The company halted operations at the well, which disposes of brine used in gas and oil drilling, after a series of small earthquakes hit the Youngstown area.(AP […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

A new scientific study authored by the Geological Society of America indicates Oklahoma’s 2011 record-setting 5.7 magnitude earthquake was “potentially related” to the hydraulic fracturing in the state, which injects a formula of water and chemicals into the earth’s surface. In 2011, five earthquakes in the U.S. were registered at magnitude 5 or

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Striking Ohio Teachers Still On The Picket Lines

Sign in support of striking teachers in Strongsville, Ohio from the Facebook page of the Strongsville Education Association. (Photo/via Facebook) The third meeting between striking Strongsville, Ohio teachers and the school board wasn’t the charm, and yesterday’s fourth meeting didn’t lead to any resolution either. After meeting for about 12 hours with federal mediators on […]

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

The third meeting between striking Strongsville, Ohio teachers and the school board wasn’t the charm, and yesterday’s fourth meeting didn’t lead to any resolution either. After meeting for about 12 hours with federal mediators on Tuesday, the teachers strike, which began March 4, will continue after both sides failed to come to an agreement.

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Louisiana Struggles To Justify Angola Three’s Isolation Despite Allegations Of Racism

Frame grab from trailer to the documentary, “Land of the Free,” about the Angola Three, which made its American premiere in 2010 at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. (Photo/via solitarywatch.com) (Mint Press) – James “Buddy” Caldwell, the attorney general for Louisiana, is on the defensive. Forced to defend the nearly 41 years that Herman […]

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

(Mint Press) - James “Buddy” Caldwell, the attorney general for Louisiana, is on the defensive. Forced to defend the nearly 41 years that Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have spent in solitary confinement — likely the longest such confinement in the nation’s history and one of the longest in the history of penal punishment — the attorney general

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