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Historical Account of Class, Race Wars Relevant for Organizers Today
(Image: Melville House Publishers) As a kid, I didn't know the term working-class, but I certainly knew the antagonisms that came from falling below the middle and …
Fracking: Pennsylvania Gags Physicians
(Photo: Evil Erin) A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in …
Resistance Builds to NATO’s Threat of Permanent War and Nuclear Dominance
Demonstrators protest against NATO in Strasbourg, France, April, 2009. (Photo: Jos van Zetten) The leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the gently named but dangerous …
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Sister, You’re an Addict: Empowerment Is Not Spelled C-R-A-Z-Y B-U-S-Y
In the early Seventies, I was the divorced working mother of three kids, a community activist, peacenik, teacher — and a fool for weak men. In those days, Redbook …
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Occupying Democracy: A Moral Revolution for Social Justice
Protesters march on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The moral principle …
How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent Iranian Electrical Engineer
Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (Photo: Lynsey Addario / The New York Times) On July 23, 2011, a 35-year-old Iranian electrical engineering …
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Plan to Cut Benefits for Injured Federal Workers Stirs Concern
In the space of a minute, federal prison worker Jason Unwin was twice attacked by a furious, muscle-bound inmate on Dec. 21, 2010. …
Court Rejects Voter Suppression Efforts
Almost 47 years to the day after a peaceful voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, ended in violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a federal court in Philadelphia struck …
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Not All Labor Leaders Happy With AFL-CIO’s Obama Endorsement
Last May, AFL-CIO President Trumka declared labor’s political independence by pledging to use the power of Super PACS to reach out to nonunion voters and build labor's own political …
Bribing Israel
The bully came to Washington. The American president told him in no uncertain terms that the United States would not support a military attack on Iran at this moment. …