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AFL-CIO launches new ad campaign
Denver PostNeWSBreaking
Jan 17WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO on Tuesday launched a new advertising campaign to promote unions as a voice for all working people, a move that comes amid declining membership and growing hostility to organized labor in a number of states. »
AFL-CIO launches new ad campaign
Denver Post Politics
Jan 17WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO is launching a national television advertising campaign as unions fight declining membership and growing hostility in a number of states. »
Stop Online Piracy Act opposition moves forward
Colorado Independent
Jan 17Major opponents of the law, like Colorado's Jared Polis, warn that the now-shelved controversial anti-piracy legislation will be back »
Task force to Homeland Security: Stop Secure Communities
Colorado Independent
Jan 08Former members of a task force on Secure Communities sent a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling on her to suspend the immigration enforcement program. »
USPS wins a reprieve
Colorado Springs Independent
Dec 15Colorado's senators, Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, pushed for the moratorium. by Chet Hardin When the postmaster general on Tuesday suspended the plan to shrink the U.S. Postal Service, "it was huge," says Chuck Bader, vice president of the Colorado A... »
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Seeing Stars: SOPA Strike Begins
Peoples Press Collective
Jan 18Today will be filled with stories of all the web sites that are going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA. I'm just as opposed to SOPA as everyone else but if everyone shuts down, where will everyone else get their information? Oh, right. Twitter. On to th... »
Miklosi receives support of AFL-CIO, speculation remains of whether primary challenger will emerge in CD-6
Denver Post The Spot Blog
Nov 18State Rep. Joe Miklosi, who for now is the lone Democrat in the 2012 race for the 6th Congressional District, received a powerful endorsement today from the Colorado AFL-CIO. »
Working America Delivers Thousands of Postcards in Support of Paid Sick Days
Squarestate.netFront Page
Oct 06Overwhelming numbers of Coloradans support crucial protections for workers and public health Working America organizers and members gathered at the Downtown Denver Post Office today to send 3,000 postcards to members who support paid sick days for work... »
#OccupyWallst comes to #OccupyDenver and grows with Labor
Squarestate.netFront Page
Oct 06I'm ambivalent about #occupydenver. The criticisms of vary from "they're too white" to "they're too radical*". Of course, of the two, the former is more true. I've been to a few general assembly meetings and found that, like every other organization, t... »