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Ahead of May Day, David Harvey Details Urban Uprisings From Occupy Wall Street to the Paris Commune
On Tuesday, May 1st, known as May Day or International Workers' Day, Occupy Wall Street protesters hope to mobilize tens of thousands of people across the country under the …
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Chicago to Welcome Militarized May Day?
McCormick Place, site of the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago, Illinois. Operation Red Zone, a security perimeter around the site, will be patrolled by federal law enforcement carrying “non-lethal” …
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Our Hope Is in Our Struggle: Reclaiming Land and Life in Honduras
In Honduras, as in most places, the government and the wealthy treat land as a commodity. In pursuit of the profits it offers, they have taken enormous tracts of …
The Obama Contradiction
He has few constraints (except those he's internalized). No one can stop him or countermand his orders. He has a bevy of lawyers at his beck and call to …
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The Plan
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Labor Leaders Question Contractor’s Hiring Practices
At 6:15 a.m. on Friday, April 20th, the back parking lot of the Staybridge Suites in Vancouver, Washington is filled with work trucks parked in between vans with Texas …
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The Vision Thing: Keeping Union Reform on Track
Reformers take over at the union hall. They’re sick of seeing management run roughshod over the local, so they put together a slate and a plan to mobilize the …
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A Miner’s Life: Coca, Hunger and Fear
Bogota - At the cost of 25 years of their lifespan, workers toil 60 hours a week for $9 a day in the bowels of a mine that once …
May Day’s Radical History: What Occupy is Fighting for This May 1st
(Photo: Mike Fleshman / Flickr)American general strikes—or rather, American calls for general strikes, like the one Occupy Los Angeles issued last December that has been endorsed by over 150 …
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United States Talks Fail as Pakistanis Seek Apology
Islamabad, Pakistan - The latest high-level talks on ending a diplomatic deadlock between the United States and Pakistan ended in failure on Friday over Pakistani demands for an unconditional …