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Why Prison Strikers Are Demanding the Right to Vote
Strike organizers want universal suffrage because all other rights emanate from the right to vote.
A New Framework for Labor Law: Shifting the Paradigm on Workers’ Rights
A new report provides a blueprint to protect workers, whose rights are being undermined at every opportunity.
“There’s an Alternative to the Hierarchical, Top-Down Capitalist Corporation”
Why in the world do we not demand democratic accountability of the economic leaders in our society?
West Virginia Teachers’ Fight Is Still Ongoing: Will They Strike Again?
Without funding for the public employees' insurance, the small raise they earned won't make a difference, say teachers.
Thriving Wildlife Benefits People Enormously
CounterSpin interview with Brett Hartl on Endangered Species Act.
Efforts to Undermine Iran Nuclear Deal Warrant Greater Public Outcry
The most destabilizing force of the past 25 years in the Middle East was not Iran; it was the United States.
How Newspaper Closures Lead to Higher Costs for Local Governments
State governments are doing more than ever. So why are newspapers paying less attention?
Pushing Back Against White Supremacists a Year After Charlottesville
It's up to the public to deny the far right their forum because the state is busy protecting their free speech.
“Those Who Are Targeted Know What the State’s Agenda Has Been”
If we want to stop state violence, it's not going to be through reforming harmful institutions, but dismantling them.
We Already Have Single-Payer for Seniors. We Just Need to Expand It.
Medicare became law in a turbulent moment much like the present. If we act now, Medicare for All can be passed.