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Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant With Three-Year Strike
Far from indulging in a “we've got ours” mentality, the workers are intent on maintaining solidarity with workers still cursed with a boss.
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The Next Big Obamacare Battle: The Low-Wage Workers Who Get Left Out
Richard Kirsch: Reformers should start building a coalition to push for expanding the bill and making it more affordable.
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Weekly Activism Update: Inspiration Is Contagious!
Margaret Flowers provides a roundup of the week's best activism victories.
Time for Domestic Workers to Enjoy Equal Rights and Recognition
As we increasingly rely on cheap domestic labor, we are allowing abusive employers to hold deportation over workers' heads to exploit them.
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How the Gun Industry Is Killing Americans
Excerpt from Tom Diaz's new text
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Job Growth Falls to 88,000, Half a Million Workers Leave Labor Force
It is important to remember that the March data does not reflect the impact of the sequester.
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The Iraq War: Ten Years, Five Poems of Remembrance
It has been ten years since the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq spearheaded by the George W. Bush administration. It is an occasion for remembrance, reflection and deep …
Environmental Activist Daniel McGowan Picked Up from Halfway House, Taken Back to Prison; Action May Be Related to Monday Article by McGowan Critical of BOP
This morning, activist Daniel McGowan was picked up from the halfway house where he has been residing and taken into custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. McGowan, …
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Honoring Dr King’s Legacy
On the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, I believe his words and actions are no less relevant today than they were forty-five years ago. …
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How Mass Media Enable the Zombie Apocalypse
Zombies dominate our nation's airwaves. They have already devoured much of our rational public discourse and now threaten our social sanity. Zombies are hot commodities. They sell. That's why …