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H&M Has a New Labor Plan: It Looks a Lot Like All the Others
Critics are skeptical of the clothing retailer's latest promises to improve supply-chain working conditions - for good reason.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Our Oceans Are in Serious Trouble, and More
Want to support Truthout's work and make double your impact? Click here to make a donation that will be matched dollar-for-dollar - for a limited time only. In today's …
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Private Prisons: Just Bit Players in Mass Incarceration
Focusing on private prison companies deflects attention from the state actors driving the prison industrial complex.
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Reclaiming Labor History: How Domestic Workers Resisted Racism in the ’60s and ’70s
Premilla Nadasen discusses how Black women domestic workers organized for better pay and conditions in the 1960s and 1970s.
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William Rivers Pitt | CNN, the Democratic Candidates and a Condensation of Farce
If that Democratic debate is the future of politics, we may as well throw a rope around the country and sling it into the sun.
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Economic Update: Co-ops vs. Capitalism
This episode provides updates on a looming economic downturn, and more.
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The United States’ Unofficial Religion: The War on an Idea
The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons.
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Is $15 an Hour Enough?
A new report finds that in many states $15 an hour is not a living wage for a single person, let alone a family.
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Remembering Domestic Workers Who Empowered Themselves Against White Exploitation
Black domestic workers in the US were forced to develop unique strategies in the 1960s and 1970s for social change.
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Teachers’ Resistance in Oaxaca Offers Lessons for US Activism
The mass mobilizations organized by the teachers' unions in Oaxaca, Mexico, could serve as a model for activism in the US.