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CHICAGO – On July 1 over one million people across Illinois will lose access to social services as state lawmakers here scramble to approve a “doomsday” budget, which contains major cuts up to 50 percent that critics are calling unacceptable.

Nearly 1,000 people rallied here at the James R. Thompson Center June 30 to demand state lawmakers pass a fair and sensible budget that will keep intact social services for children, seniors and working families.

News coverage from around the world on the Honduran coup.

CHICAGO – In a massive midday turnout, thousands of children, students, parents and leading advocates of state and citywide organizations that provide badly needed human services to working families and low-income communities here protested at the downtown Thompson Center June 18 against “doomsday” budget cuts approved by state lawmakers last month.

CHICAGO -- Thousands of union members, their families and supporters marched in solidarity with Unite Here's Congress Hotel workers on the sixth anniversary of the strike, June 15. Gov. Pat Quinn and city aldermen were among the rally speakers.

Los Angeles County AFL-CIO Executive Secretary–Treasurer Maria Elena Durazo speaks at a June 2 rally for the Employee Free Choice Act sending Sen. Dianne Feinstein a message: support EFCA!

Dr. George Tiller wanted to be a dermatologist. But when his physician father died, Dr. Tiller temporarily took over his father’s family practice in Wichita.

The pro-worker legal advocacy group Workplace Fairness has put together an action list for helping to get Sonia Sotomayor confirmed to the US Supreme Court. Here's the list:

The National Institute For Latino Policy http://www.latinopolicy.org/index.html is asking organizations to play Sotomayor Mambo by Mambo Companions "in solidarity" with the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

President Obama delivers a new direction on national security, torture, Guantanamo and civil liberties.