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How Can You Get an Ethical Manicure? Support Worker Organizing
Beyond relying on employers' voluntary efforts, health and labor advocates urge stronger mandates for protections.
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The Crises Are Urgent, So Let’s Slow Down
Fast-paced organizing often causes mistakes and sacrifices dialogues key to dismantling oppression.
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The Second Term That Movements Build
The work grassroots organizers have been doing to put pressure on the White House since well before the 2008 election is paying off.
San Antonio’s Esperanza Peace and Justice Center Campaigns Against Fracking and Militarization
The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center is going on its 28th year as a community gathering space in San Antonio, Texas.
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The First Annual New York City Conference on Worker Cooperatives
Cooperators and activists come together to discuss how to grow a worker co-op sector in NYC
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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.