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Unions to march on Minneapolis banks Saturday
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On Oct. 29 – the anniversary of the stock market crash that started the Great Depression – labor unions and working people will join Occupy Minnesota in a march on local banks.
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Marching downtown Saint Paul, union nurses call for a tax on Wall Street
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The movement to hold Wall Street accountable for tanking the U.S. economy spread to downtown Saint Paul, as more than 100 delegates to the Minnesota Nurses Association’s convention marched Tuesday to raise awareness of the union’s plan to “heal” Main Street with a tax on Wall Street.
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Building Trades protest non-union construction associated with HCMC
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Minneapolis Building Trades members are questioning how a facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center – one of Minnesota’s leading publicly operated health institutions – can be built by a California company using non-union, out-of-state workers.
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State workers decry imported labor for $15 million project benefiting HCMC
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Minnesota construction workers – who face the bleakest job outlook in the nation – will protest Wednesday at the site of a multi-million-dollar facility associated with Hennepin County Medical Center that is being built with out-of-state labor.
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Thousands of Minnesotans take part in actions focusing on jobs
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Thousands of Minnesotans expressed their outrage and frustration with the U.S. economy in an unprecedented series of actions, from roundtables and pickets to a massive march through downtown Minneapolis. With video.
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Wisconsin residents to start Walker recall
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Wisconsin residents, including many labor unions, plan to start collecting signatures on Nov. 15 to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker, which gives them a 60-day window to achieve that goal.
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Twin Cities marchers point finger at banks
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Hundreds of people carrying giant red foam fingers like those waved by fans at football games marched through Minneapolis’s financial district Tuesday pointing the finger at big banks, corporations and financial institutions who have sent the U.S. economy into a near death spiral.
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Unemployed hold vigil, seeking action on jobs
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Unemployed workers and members of faith, labor and community groups gathered for a vigil Monday evening, hoping against hope that Congress would act to create jobs. Late Tuesday, however, the U.S. Senate refused to take a vote on President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act.
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Week of action puts focus on Minnesotans’ needs, Wall Street greed
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As more and more Americans question how they are benefitting in today’s economy, Twin Cities community, faith and labor groups start a week of action, including a march and rally Friday to “Save the American Dream.”
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Movement to demand Wall Street accountability spreads to Minnesota
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Hundreds gathered on the plaza of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis Friday, joining the nationwide movement to hold Corporate America accountable for an economy that has left the majority of Americans struggling to just get by.