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Featured Political and Labor Stories Republican Scare Tactics Work: Voters Approve Trust Fund Amendment Selma-to-Montgomery March No Celebration of the Right to Vote This Year MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- There was not supposed to be a major anniversary march this year to commemorate Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965. It is only the 47th anniversary of that groundbreaking event in civil rights and American political history that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act that year. Plans are in the works for a big event on the 50th anniversary in 2015. But even though black voters, union leaders and members, women and Hispanic groups were all heartened by the election of the first African-American president in U.S. history in 2008, that has not stopped an all out assault on voting rights, labor rights, immigrant rights and yes, human rights, by Republican politicians across the country. So organizers decided the crisis was so great this year, especially in Alabama, that they had better get together and do a march this year. Senator Richard Shelby Answers Ethics Question Federalist Society Hears From Conservative Voter Suppression Expert The fate of the world is often decided by powerful men meeting in secret. That is a fact, but it's not always the case -- and doesn't have to be so. No, this is no "conspiracy theory." It's just a narrative story explaining how politics, government and public opinion are often guided by the rich and powerful, but also how common citizens can make a difference when the press does its job of educating the public in a democratic society. Consumer Watchdog Makes Appearance in Birmingham Why Working People Vote Against Their Economic Interests Why do working class people in the South so frequently vote against their own economic self-interest? In answering the question a little more than 20 years after his book came out, retired Auburn History professor Wayne Flynt said some things you will never see reported by any newspaper or television news station in Alabama. AFL-CIO Report Calls Immigration Law A 'Crisis in Alabama' Labor Heavy Hitters On the Ground in Alabama's Immigration Battle Heavy hitters from American labor are now on the ground taking a special interest in Alabama due to the growing controversy surrounding the state's draconian immigration law. An AFL-CIO sponsored delegation of union leaders actively engaged in the struggle for civil and human rights recently spent a day in Birmingham and Pelham getting a first-hand view of the law's impact by hearing from local community leaders and undocumented workers. Featured Science, Nature and Environmental Stories A Conundrum: Will Humans Ever Achieve World Peace? Natural Gas Fracking Coming to Talladega National Forest An unknown mining company has prompted the federal Bureau of Land Management to offer up 43,000 acres in the national forest near Mt. Cheaha for oil and gas extraction that could involve hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," a controversial drilling practice that some states such as New York and Vermont have formally banned. The federal agency has not returned phone calls or e-mails Tuesday to answer questions about the plan, which appears to have been issued quietly without adequate public notification, just one of the issues that has the Southern Environmental Law Center considering filing a formal lawsuit to stop the major lease sale coming up June 14 in Virginia. Environmental Law Center Files Intent to Sue Against Oil, Gas Leases People Pack Talladega Ritz in Opposition to Drilling in National Forests Standards for Mercury Pollution from Power Plants Unveiled Much anticipated national standards limiting the output of mercury and other toxic air pollutants from the nation's power plants were unveiled on Wednesday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards designed to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide, will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution controls that are already in use at more than half of the nation's coal-fired power plants. Are We Learning the Lessons from BP's Oil Disaster in the Gulf? When the British Petroleum corporation issued a press release announcing that the multinational behemoth would commit $1 billion for Gulf Coast restoration projects, every news organization in the world ran a story about it. But where were the reporters and editors asking the tough questions, such as: Is the $1 billion enough? What is the plan for restoration? What does the company and the government plan to restore? 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