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I’ll be sitting in for ek hornbeck who is Live Blogging the NCAA Championship Games for the next few days.

This is more Prime Time than news but in light of the assault on workers and unions by the GOP, it is an extremely important part of the history of union organization. Tonight at 9 PM EDT on HBO the documentary Triangle: Remembering the Fire. This Friday is 100 years since the March 25, 1911 infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on the lower East Side of New York which killed 146 garment workers, most of them young, female Jewish and Italian immigrants. Many were burned alive on the upper floors of the ten story building, others jumped to their death. So many of these deaths were unnecessary, caused by unsafe working conditions. The outrage over this tragedy sparked reforms in working conditions and reforms in building and fire codes and a surge in union membership. This year we also know the identities of all the victims some who were burned so badly they could not be identified. Thanks go to Michael Hirsh, the co-producer of the documentary, for the four years of painstaking research he devoted to identifying them all. Having met Michael last year at a service for the dedication of a new headstone for one victim, I can say he was very passionate about this search. This is well worth watching if you have HBO.

• West strikes Libya as Gaddafi forces choke Misrata
  
  By Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy

  TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi surrounded Misrata, the only big rebel stronghold in western Libya, killing at least nine people, cutting off its water and bringing in human shields, residents said on Monday.

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said a U.N. resolution authorizing military action in Libya resembled “medieval calls for crusades” and China stepped up criticism as Western forces prepared to switch from air strikes to air patrols.

• Radiation fears grow in disaster-struck Japan
  

  TOKYO (Reuters) – Global anxiety rose over radiation from Japan’s earthquake-damaged nuclear plant even as engineers had some success in the battle to avert disaster from the world’s worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.

  The high-stakes drama at the battered Fukushima nuclear power complex is playing out while the Asian nation grapples with the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left at least 21,000 people dead or missing.

Our erstwhile evening news editor has the evening off. Yes, we do let him out from behind his computer for fresh sir. 😉

1. Egypt’s Military Dissolves Parliament; Calls for Vote

 by Anthony Shadid and J. David Goodman

CAIRO – The Egyptian military consolidated its control Sunday over what it has called a democratic transition from three decades of President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian rule, dissolving the country’s feeble parliament, suspending the constitution and calling for elections in six months in sweeping steps that echoed protesters’ demands.

CAIRO – The Egyptian military consolidated its control Sunday over what it has called a democratic transition from three decades of President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian rule, dissolving the country’s feeble parliament, suspending the constitution and calling for elections in six months in sweeping steps that echoed protesters’ demands.