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By Santiago Esparza
The chants of thousands of people demanding jobs filled the air downtown as UAW President Bob King and the Rev. Jesse Jackson led the crowd to Grand Circus Park.
The UAW and Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition announced the Rebuild America: Jobs Justice Peace kickoff today at the downtown park.
By Bruce Nolan
With prayers and the solemn tolling of bells, but also with second-line parades and the drumming of Mardi Gras Indians, New Orleanians throughout the region on Sunday took stock of their rebuilt lives in the five years since the worst event in the region's history, and promised each other to keep the recovery going.
By Jay Heflin
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is sharply criticizing the Treasury Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission for excluding minority- and women-owned firms from taking part in the sale of General Motors common stock owned by the Treasury.
By STEVE MACEK and MITCHELL SZCEPANCZYK
On Dec. 3, 2009, the cable giant Comcast announced plans to buy NBC/Universal from General Electric in a $28 billion merger.
Ever since, lawmakers in Washington and legions of activists have been raising the alarm about the threat such a deal would pose to telecommunication workers, cable and Internet users, and communities of color.