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Longshoreman Strike Shuts Down Port of Baltimore
Port of Baltimore Shutdown: Longshoremen in solidarity with nationwide labor struggle.
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Pantomime
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Henry A. Giroux | The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown
What Americans are witnessing is a politics that celebrates a form of domestic terrorism, a kind of soft militarism and a hyper-masculine posturing in which communities are organized around …
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Professors and Adjuncts Unite, Win Raises, Job Security in First Contract
Teachers at the University of Oregon approved by 99 percent a first contract yesterday, the fruits of solidarity between tenure-track and contingent faculty that began in 2007.
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One Month After Historic Hunger Strike Ends, Legislators Hold Hearings About Solitary Confinement
Families and former prisoners held for years in solitary confinement expressed optimism October 9 after the first of several California Public Safety Committee hearings about the punishment, promised in …
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Parkinson’s and Disability Have an Image Problem, and Michael J. Fox Isn’t Helping
The The Michael J. Fox Show is a fitting welcome back party for a beloved sitcom veteran, but thereu2019s no trace of serious symptoms and minimizes descrimination and other …
The Tragedy of Greece as a Case Study of Neo-Imperial Pillage and the Demise of Social Europe
The neoliberal prescriptions for Greek ‘recovery’ that only deepen its economic crisis reveal the anti-democratic assault on the welfare state and the breakdown of social Europe as the center …
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Postal Workers Elect New Leaders Who Pledge to Build a Movement
The stakes couldnu2019t be higher for postal workers, who are battling wave after wave of attacksu2014post offices and sorting plants closing, work privatizing, delivery standards eroding.
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“Safe Seats” and the Media Spin About Radical Republicans
Media message: If politicians don't have to worry about re-election, naturally they're going to act more extreme. But that argument is flawed, says Eric Boehlert.
Economic Update: Uneven Development, Part 1
Updates on world wealth distribution, Swiss referenda to reduce economic inequality, and capitalism vs. democracy.