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Fast Food Strikes Are Back, Bigger Than Ever
The fast-food strikes are back, and bigger than ever.
$15 and Change: How Seattle Led the Country’s Wage Revolution
Seattle's path to a $15 minimum wage is a winding tale of effective organizing, smart messaging, and blind dumb luck.
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McDonald’s Can’t Hide Behind Franchise System
If rulings start coming out against the corporate office, that should help turn up the heat on McDonald's.
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LA Police Refuse to Release Information on In-Custody Deaths, Community Pushes Back
The LAPD refuses to release autopsy reports and the names of officers involved in the deaths of Ezell Ford and Omar Abrego in South Central Los Angeles, frustrating a …
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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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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Is Social Justice Driven by Emotion or Reason?
Most people act out of logical self-interest rather than a self-less desire to help others.
Are Economic Growth and Social Justice Incompatible?
Professor Jason Hickel and activist Alnoor Ladha discuss the fallacy of economic growth, the battle for social justice and how to organize against the neoliberal system.
Kate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid: What Makes Revolutionaries Irresistible?
In honor of Pride month, Flanders talks to political humorist Kate Clinton and author and activist Urvashi Vaid about the LGBT movement, feminism, humor, and irresistible revolutions and revolutionaries.
Black Co-ops Were a Method of Economic Survival
Jessica Gordon Nembhard discusses economic alternatives, cooperation and solidarity.