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		Young America Wants Health Care Reform By Ari A. Matusiak Co-founder of Young Invincibles


		The Sound of Change By Roger Smith CEO, American Income Life


		Lessons from the Panama Canal By Julie Greene Labor Historian at University of Maryland


		Young Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act By Martin J. Bennett Instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College


		Health Care—We Can't Wait By Richard Kirsch National Campaign Director of Health Care for America Now

		Remember Civics? Here's Why We Need It By Andrea Batista Schlesinger Author of The Death of Why: The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy

		Liberty and Justice for All By Chad Alan Goldberg Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

		Frances Perkins Rides to the Rescue—Again By Kirstin Downey Prize-Winning Journalist at The Washington Post

		African Americans Win with Unions By Edgar Moore Instructor at the University of Nebraska

		Globalization: Win–Win, Except for Most of Us By Josh Bivens Economist for the Economic Policy Institute

		Starbucks: A Mixed Blend for Workers By Kim Fellner Development Director at Working America

		Sen. Richard Shelby Hates My Dad By David Radtke Partner in the Michigan law firm of Klimist, McKnight, Sale, McClow & Canzano and Member of the Lawyers Coordinating Committee

		Unions: Schools for Democracy By Elaine Bernard Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

		Wage Theft in America: A Crisis We Can Solve By Kim Bobo Founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice

		'Battle in Seattle' By Stuart Townsend Actor/Director, 'Battle in Seattle'

		Workers: Backbone and Brains of Our Economy By Thomas A. Kochan Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

		A Week in the Tobacco Fields By Baldemar Velásquez Founder and President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)


		We Can't Afford Another Train Wreck By Bill Press Author, Train Wreck, and Host, 'The Bill Press Show'

		The Big Squeeze By Steven Greenhouse Reporter, The New York Times

		Unions and the Public Interest By David Brody Professor Emeritus, University of California-Davis

		Unions: Ensuring Social Justice for African Americans By John Schmitt, Senior Economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), and Dean Baker, Co-Director of the CEPR

		Unemployment Benefits Need to be Extended NOW By Christine Owens Executive Director, National Employment Law Project

		Is Inequality Making Us Sick? By Larry Adelman Creator/Executive Producer, 'Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?'

		The Recession and the Freedom to Organize By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research

		Forty Years Since King: Labor Rights Are Human Rights By Michael Honey History Professor, University of Washington, Tacoma

		Rx for Recession: An Economic Strategy that Works By Lawrence Mishel President, Economic Policy Institute

		Race and Labor in America By Robert Zieger Professor of History, University of Florida

		Right to Organize, Right to Strike By Julius Getman Professor, University of Texas

		Level the Playing Field for Public Safety Employees By Paul Clark Professor, Penn State University

		Why More Women Don’t Hold Office By Jennifer Lawless Political Science Professor, Brown University

		We Must Close the Wealth Gap. We Must Vote By Allan Ornstein Professor of Education, St. John's University

		Reflections on Hip Hop By Michael Eric Dyson University Professor, Georgetown University

		'The Myth of the Greedy Founders' By Thom Hartmann Host, Air America Radio

		'Diversity Is Our Strength' By UAW Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Bunn and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Nat LaCour

		Real Flextime—Union Made By Netsy Firestein Executive Director, Labor Project for Working Families

		What if John Edwards Worked at Wal-Mart? By Ellen Bravo Former Director, 9to5, National Association of Working Women

		The Real Political Purpose of the ICE Raids By David Bacon Photojournalist and Trade Unionist

		The Under 34, Underpaid Underdogs By Tamara Draut Director, Economic Opportunity Program at Demos

		Economic Democracy Works By John August Executive Director, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions

		Congress Should Reverse Recent Labor Board Decisions By Dmitri Iglitzin, Labor Law Attorney in Seattle, and Steven Hill, Political Reform Director at the New America Foundation

		Needed: A New Wave of Energy for Justice By Joseph Lowery President Emeritus, SCLC

		The Latino Vote By Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus Executive Director, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)

		Investigate the NLRB By Andrew Kersten Associate Professor of American History and Chair of the Department of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

		The Economy Mattered Nov. 7 By Geoff Garin President, Peter D. Hart Research Associates

		Labor Board Leaves Workers in Twilight Zone By Harley Shaiken Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley


		Recruiting Nurses from Abroad Is Not the Answer to the U.S. Nursing Shortage By Paul Clark, James Stewart and Darlene Clark Faculty Members at Penn State University


		Old Problems, New Solutions By Jared Bernstein Senior Economist, Economic Policy Institute

		Unions Built the Middle Class and Must Save It By Richard A. Levins Professor Emeritus of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

		U.S. Labor Law Is Broken By Mary Beth Maxwell Executive Director, American Rights at Work

		No Red or Blue States, Working Family States By Brian Schweitzer Governor of Montana

		Finding a Place for Immigrant Workers in Today’s Labor Movement [Spanish version] By Janice Fine Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University

		Can You Afford to Retire? By Hedrick Smith 'FRONTLINE' Correspondent

		The Rollback of Immigrant Workers' Civil Rights By Ana Avendaño, Laywer in the AFL-CIO Office of the General Counsel, and Marielena Hincapié, Labor Lawyer with the National Immigration Law Center

		Jobs: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t By Greg LeRoy Executive Director, Good Jobs First

		The Global Class System By Jeff Faux Founder and Former President, Economic Policy Institute

		Organizing Against the Odds By Immanuel Ness Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

		This MLK Day, Remember Katrina's Real Victims By Michael Eric Dyson Avalon Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

		American Workers Need to Bring About Change By Clyde Rucker Former Senior Customer Representative, Verizon Wireless

		Current Labor Law Betrays Our Democratic Values By David Bonior Chairman, American Rights at Work

		Tax Cuts for the Wealthy—The Wrong Priority By Joel Friedman, Senior Fellow, and John Springer, Senior Writer, CBPP

		The Truth About Drug Companies By Marcia Angell, M.D.

		Reclaiming Thomas Paine, Reviving Democracy and American Labor By Harvey J. Kaye Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

		Labor Rights Are Civil Rights By Julian Bond Chairman, NAACP

		Hurricane Katrina: What Would FDR Do? By Thomas A. Kochan Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

		This Labor Day, Are You Afraid? By Robert Heustess Parts Assembler, Freightliner, Gastonia, N.C.

		Don’t Gut Family and Medical Leave By Ellen Bravo Coordinator, Multi-State Working Families Consortium

		What My Daddy Did By James C. Moore Author, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential

		Find Labor’s Soul By Michael Kazin Professor, Georgetown University

		America Needs to Remember Workers' Role By Studs Terkel Author, Working

		Kill CAFTA By Greg Spotts Author, CAFTA and Free Trade: What Every American Should Know