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The Right to Boycott
The cultural and economic boycott against Israel is indeed unpleasant, but it succeeds where 20 years of encounter programs have failed, that is, in motivating more Israelis to end …
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The Working-Class Mini-Revolts of the 21st Century
The 21st century has seen a continuing decline in union membership and strikes. But it has also seen the emergence of unpredicted mini-revolts.
Portland Student Union Plays Key Role in Faculty Union Win
Students often find themselves with little to no substantive representation on campus, and in recent years, many have turned to building student unions.
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In Love and Trouble: Climate Change and the Power of Honesty
Even though we know there will be climate change tragedy, no matter what we do now, we can still avert some disasters, save some species that would otherwise be …
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An Apartheid of Dollars: Life in the New American Minimum-Wage Economy
Peter Van Buren took an unlikely fall into the minimum-wage world when he lost his job in 2012. He gives us a first-hand look at what it's like to …
Why Passengers Cheered a Vermont Bus Strike
The Vermont bus driver's strike succeeded through a powerful combination of workers organizing on the job and organized community solidarity.
A Walkout at UPS and Labor’s Old School Future
The successful February fight at UPS in Queens by Teamsters Local 807 shows that worker solidarity and innovative online tactics to win public support can be used to enhance …
Radical Philosophy and the Free Alabama Movement
The Free Alabama Movement (FAM) seeks to analyze, resist, and transform prison slavery from within the Prison Industrial Complex.
Incarcerated Workers Launch Nonviolent Work Strike Against “New Jim Crow” Across Alabama Prisons
Peaceful protest demands wages for labor, end to overcrowding and inhumane conditions, transformation of American justice system.
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Workplace Democracy
We need a whole new approach to labor law in the United States that provides workers more freedom and democracy in the workplace.