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California Drought Leaves Farmworkers Hung Out to Dry
California's ongoing drought is another blow to hundreds of thousands of farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants, that are struggling to survive.
First Nations Take Their Last March Through Canada’s Dystopian Tar Sands
Organizers agreed that the annual marches have helped raise awareness about the mining project. But their work is far from done.
We Won’t Forget Wisconsin
A new film called Wisconsin Rising is screening around the country, the subject, of course, being the activism surrounding the mass occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011.
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Climate Change: Point of No Return
Maintaining the status quo means the end of life on the planet.
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Against Forgetting: “The Phoenix Program” and the Awakening of Historical Memory
Douglas Valentine's “The Phoenix Program,” republished as the first in a series of repressed, forgotten books, shows the continuity between the CIA's secret war against civilians in Vietnam and …
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A “Bill of Rights” for San Francisco’s Retail Workers
A proposed ordinance in San Francisco could make it easier for retail workers to attain stable employment in one of the country's most expensive regions.
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Lobbyists Bidding to Block Government Regulations Set Sights on Secretive White House Office
When Washington lobbyists fail to derail regulations proposed by federal agencies, they often find a receptive ear within the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an arm of the …
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Latest Pro-Labor Reform Proposal Might Actually Undermine Labor
The latest labor reform proposal to make unionizing a civil right sounds helpful, but in shoring up workers' individual rights, it could undermine workers' collective labor rights.
The Consequences of Reagan Breaking the 1981 Air Traffic Controllers Strike
Professor Joseph McCartin and former PATCO spokesperson Elliot Simons discuss the anniversary of the firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers and why it matters today.
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The Inside Baseball of the Northwestern Football Players’ Right to Union Representation
Big Ten football is a big moneymaker, and its football players have organized a union to give them a fair share of the money the players' work brings in.