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May 3, 2012 - Workers who helped organize the union at the Smithfield Foods slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, N.C. tell the story of how African American, white, and Mexican immigrant workers were able to find common ground despite the company's attempts to use racial division and immigration enforcement to defeat them.

April 26, 2012 - The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance has stopped anti-immigrant legislation in one of the most conservative states by bringing together African Americans, immigrants and labor.

January 16, 2012 - In the final months of his life, Dr. King launched a Poor People's Campaign for economic justice with a familiar strategy: Occupying the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

October 25, 2011 - An undocumented farmworker leader was deported last week, reinforcing the findings of a new Farm Labor Organizing Committee report that says tobacco pickers struggling to organize are stymied by fear.

September 29, 2011 - A Mississippi town where poultry-plant workers recently voted to unionize was the site of an earlier labor struggle involving an unlikely hero.

April 24, 2009 - In the world of cut-throat Washington lobbying, Virginia-based D & P Creative Strategies wants you to think they're different. The slogan of the small firm - which proudly states on its website that it's "100% minority and woman-owned" - is "Consulting with a Social Conscience." As if to separate themselves from the image of the mercenary, anything-for-the-money culture of K Street, the company instead projects an image of mission-based lobbying with values:

March 7, 2008 - Today's job report coming out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has some grim news: for the first time in eight five years*, the country has seen two straight months of job losses. The net job loss for February was 22,000.