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Shawn Fain: May Day 2028 Could Transform the Labor Movement—and the World
We wanted to ensure our contracts expired at midnight on April 30, 2028, not as a symbolic gesture, but as a rallying cry. We ...
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Project 2025 Is Already Here
Core aspects of the far-right plan to overhaul U.S. government are already being put into place, through an anti-abortion ...
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Last Year, $1,748 of Your Taxes Went to Corporate Pentagon Contractors
On average, U.S taxpayers paid more to military contractors in 2023 than a month’s rent. Those are funds that could go to ...
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With Few Workplace Safety Protections, Latino Worker Deaths Are Surging
The statistics are sobering, and it's likely we're still undercounting: Only one-fourth of injuries suffered by Latino ...
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Volkswagen Workers in Chattanooga Vote "UAW, Yes!"—and Win Big
With UAW’s win at Volkswagen, another gateway to the South has been opened. No longer will the wage-and-benefit standards of ...
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11 Lessons From 11 Years After the Rana Plaza Disaster
In the 11 years since the Rana Plaza collapse, we have learned some lessons broadly transferable from Bangladesh’s garment ...
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The War on Protest
When Chaoui was released 18 days later, he faced a very different future: He’d been charged with domestic terrorism, which, ...
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The Threats To U.S. Democracy Go Far Beyond Elections and the Courts
We need to do more than protect our elections. Getting money out of politics, repealing anti-dissent laws and ensuring more ...
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This Earth Day, Common Ground Urges us to Rethink Our Relationship With Soil
Comment on industrial agriculture mostly appears in the mainstream only when something has gone awry. The current avian flu ...
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Hindu Nationalists Are Taking Notes—and Tech Support—From the Israeli Right
Mamiran Nessa, a Bengali Muslim woman, spent 10 years in detention after the Indian government refused her proof of long-standing citizenship. She now lives on a river island rapidly eroding ...
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Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
Lakeira Walker, one of 10 plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections, was released from prison after fifteen years. During her sentence, her labor was ...