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On Heels of Brazil-Wide Protests, Aerospace Strikers Win Pay Raise
Brazil's labor laws are better than ours. Unions are allowed everywhere and workers vote by region and sector on which union will represent them.
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Elephants Pushed Toward Extinction as Terrorist Groups Bankrolled With Ivory Trade to US and China
Carved ivory elephants may already outnumber living elephants, which are being slaughtered at the unsustainable rate of 35,000 per year.
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Jim Hightower: Geithner Gets a Perch on Wall Street
The former Treasury Secretary is proof the Washington-to-Wall-Street revolving door serves the interests of bankers, not the public.
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Bluegrass Uprising
As American energy production booms, thousands face pipelines in their backyards.
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Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer Than You May Realize – How Do We Finish the Job?
It starts with winning over the hearts and minds of the American people.
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Mandela Was Unable to Dismantle the White Oligarchy Keeping South Africa in Economic Chains
Danny Schechter offers insight into how while South Africa changed in terms of who politically ruled it, the economic power remained concentrated in white and western economic hands.
Home, Sweet (Privatized Military) Home
The goals of faster and cheaper military housing may have been achieved through privatization, but problems including unreliable builders and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems including mold has …
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Imagine: If Mayor de Blasio Really Were a Socialist
Conner and Smith propose health care, housing and education for all in a real socialist agenda for a real socialist mayor of New York City.
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Legacy of Occupy: A Review of Mark Bray’s “Translating Anarchy“
Mark Bray's “Translating Anarchy” is the most compelling of the Occupy Wall Street insider stories and an illustration of anarchism as yeast to progressive movements.
2013 in Review: Aiming Higher, Labor Tries New Angles and Alliances
Unions tried new angles on organizing - some promising, others vaguer.