Jan. 3, 2012

Happy New Year. In 2012, let’s carry over the activist spirit and fight for social and economic justice that marked 2011.

Indiana is the first 2012 battleground for working people. Republican lawmakers are rushing to ram through a “right to work” for less bill and have gone so far as to stifle dissent by limiting the number of citizens allowed in the statehouse to make their voices heard. Meanwhile, a new report from University of Notre Dame economist Marty Wolfson reveals the lies behind the so-called right to work propaganda machine.

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