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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 …
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May Day
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can …
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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Occupy Oakland, Workers Back Off May Day Plan to Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. (Photo: yuzu) Strikes, walk-outs, marches and rallies are part of Occupy Oakland's May Day plans, but the centerpiece, an attempted shutdown of the …
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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 …