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CWA e-Newsletter: Dec. 12, 2013

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December 12, 2013
Top Issues All Consumers Should Know; Immigration Reform Advocates Take Over Congressional Offices; TPP Trade Deal Misses 2013 Deadline, Talks Continue; Tell the FCC: Keep Spectrum Auction Open to All; and more.

Top Issues All Consumers Should Know

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December 12, 2013
Richard Cordray, the first-ever director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that's on the side of consumers when it comes to predatory lending and other bad practices by the big banks and other financial institutions, will join CWA President Larry Cohen on CWA's next Town Hall Call, Thursday, Dec. 19.

Immigration Reform Advocates Take Over Congressional Offices

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December 12, 2013
Today CWA activists joined more than 1,500 immigration reform advocates in occupying over 200 congressional offices. Activists from across the country prayed and held vigils. The song "We Shall Overcome" echoed through the halls of Rayburn House Office Building.

TPP Trade Deal Misses 2013 Deadline, Talks Continue

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December 12, 2013
Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators missed their year-end deadline to complete the deal, giving activists more time to take down the massive, secretive agreement that could destroy workers' rights and jobs.