Mae Sundstedt

Thirteen-year-old Mae Sundstedt was scalded when boiling coffee spilled on her legs after hired thugs broke up a union meeting she attended with her mother. Injuries her mother sustained in the violence contributed to her death. Courtesy of Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University

Dolores Huerta to Receive Medal of Freedom

April 28, 2012

Co-founder of the United Farm Workers union is one of 13 Americans to be awarded the nation's highest civilian honor in 2012

Initiative to End Death Penalty Likely to Qualify for November Election

March 2, 2012

Ballot proposition would replace death penalty with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Dianne Feinstein Attempts to Restore Due Process Rights

March 1, 2012

Her legislation addresses a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act allowing the military to arrest and imprison Americans without charges or trials.