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        By Sean Sellers, Labor Notes
  
      
     
   
  
  
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        October 14, 2009 -
        
  
        Coal industry supporters turned out in big numbers for public hearings held yesterday on an Obama administration proposal to more strictly regulate mountaintop removal mining -- and some of them attempted to shout down opponents of the environmentally destructive practice.    
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
          
              
            
            
            
        October 14, 2009 -
        
  
        A student at a public high school in Copiah County, Miss. is fighting back after being excluded from her high school yearbook for wearing men's clothing in her class photo.	
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        October 14, 2009 -
        
  
        By Aaron Glantz, New America Media  
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
          
              
            
            
            
        October 14, 2009 -
        
  
        Since a dam burst at its Kingston coal-fired power plant last December and
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
          
        
        
          
              
            
            
            
        October 13, 2009 -
        
  
        Earlier this month, Kim Yaman and friends held what they billed as a "Brain Tumor Bake Sale" in front of U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's office in Raleigh, N.C. in support of health care reform. Yaman, a grandmother from Cary, N.C.