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Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Poor People’s Campaign discusses the role of media in suppressing the working class movement—and how stories of people fighting back can be used to inspire others.
Dr. Liz Theoharis of the Poor People's Campaign discusses the role of media in suppressing the working class movement—and how stories of people fighting back can be used to inspire others.
The spectacle of frenzied tech bros gave us all a good laugh, but the bailout and rebound to come will only harm labor in the end, notes author Malcolm Harris.
Former Baltimore Black Panther and 44-year political prisoner Eddie Conway passed away on Feb. 13, 2023. Eddie’s family and coworkers reflect on his life and example.
Former Baltimore Black Panther and 44-year political prisoner Eddie Conway passed away on Feb. 13, 2023. Eddie's family and coworkers reflect on his life and example.
“This is all so inspiring—and at the same time, so dreadful to know that all these forces have been silent for so long on apartheid. Silent, or actively participating and profiting from it,” said one Israeli journalist.
"This is all so inspiring—and at the same time, so dreadful to know that all these forces have been silent for so long on apartheid. Silent, or actively participating and profiting from it," said one Israeli journalist.
In Feb., veteran journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell report detailing how President Joe Biden ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
Seymour Hersh, the journalist who uncovered the Mỹ Lai Massacre and torture at Abu Ghraib says America detonated the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. The response from corporate media has been stunning.
For a variety of sordid and explicitly racist reasons, agricultural workers in the US were deliberately exempted from the provisions circumscribed by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. To this day, workers in this industry remain some of the most exploited and underrepresented across the workforce.
Starting on March 14, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will lead a 5-day march to protest abuses in the farming industry and to compel companies like Wendy’s and Kroger to join the Fair Food Program.
As more states and districts around the country push for legalization, the cannabis industry has exploded in recent years, but the vast majority of cannabis workers are not reaping the benefits of the booming profits.
As legalization spreads, profits in the cannabis industry are exploding, but the workers who make the industry run report low pay, overwork and burnout, and disrespect from management. That’s why these organizers are fighting to unionize cannabis workers.
Not only have none of the hawks who promoted, cheerled, or authorized the criminal invasion of Iraq ever been held accountable, they’ve since thrived: they’ve found success in the media, the speaking circuit, government jobs, and cushy think tank gigs, and they currently occupy the Oval Office.
It’s not just that media figures who sold the most devastating war crime of the 21st century never faced any professional consequences—they’re more powerful and influential now than ever.
The push by Republicans and industry lobbyists to roll back child labor laws in states like Arkansas, Iowa, and Ohio are part of a larger attack on workers and the federal government’s ability to enforce labor standards.
Over 150 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico since 2000. Behind the killings is a nexus of corruption and violence that links organized crime, police, and government.
“If you think the U.S. needs a TikTok ban and not a comprehensive privacy law regulating data brokers, you don’t care about privacy, you just hate that a Chinese company has built a dominant social media platform,” said one digital rights campaigner.
US efforts to ban TikTok were denounced by activists and lawmakers as motivated by "anti-China" sentiments rather than privacy concerns.
A routine encounter with a Weymouth, Massachusetts, police officer led to an aggressive arrest ending with life changing charges against an innocent motorist.
Thousands demonstrate in front of White House to demand an end to the US war machine
Over 200 organizations participated in a rally and march this weekend to fight for peace in Ukraine and an end to US escalation.
British tanks gifted to Ukraine will come equipped with controversial depleted uranium rounds.
With public safety front and center in Chicago’s runoff mayoral election, Brandon Johnson, a public school teacher, has emerged as a powerful contender against police union-backed candidate Paul Vallas.
With public safety front and center in Chicago's runoff mayoral election, Brandon Johnson, a public school teacher, has emerged as a powerful contender against police union-backed candidate Paul Vallas.
Over 200 organizations participated in a rally and march this weekend to fight for peace in Ukraine and an end to US escalation.
The economizing logic of neoliberalism doesn’t just undermine democracy—it makes democratic institutions and culture unable to function at all.
The economizing logics of neoliberalism are not just corrosive to democracy, but render its institutions and culture non-functional.
100 workers from five different unions walked off the job last October after the paper’s management, Block Communications, cut off their healthcare.
100 workers from five different unions walked off the job last October after the paper's management, Block Communications, cut off their healthcare.
In Barcelona, Catalonia, 60,000 women took to the streets for a one-day general strike called by Spanish union CGT on International Women’s Day. Women workers united across sectors to demand fair pay, an end to workplace discrimination, and migrant justice.
As the national spotlight from Norfolk Southern’s train wreck fades, residents of East Palestine are left to navigate serious health and safety concerns with little to no government support.
As the national spotlight from Norfolk Southern's train wreck fades, residents of East Palestine are left to navigate serious health and safety concerns with little to no government support.
Former SNCC organizers Jennifer Lawson and Courtland Cox look back on their time in Lowndes County, Alabama—the birthplace of the Black Power movement.
Educators, students, migrant domestic workers, LGBTQ groups, and other workers united for a one-day general strike against gender-based pay disparities, discrimination, and immigration restrictions.
Kathy Randels’s one-woman play, ‘The Road to Damascus’, explores white complicity in the prison system through fairy tales and biblical allusions.
Kathy Randels's one-woman play, 'The Road to Damascus', explores white complicity in the prison system through fairy tales and biblical allusions.
Did the US Navy destroy the Nord Stream pipelines?
Seymour Hersh, the journalist who uncovered the Mỹ Lai Massacre and torture at Abu Ghraib says America detonated the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. The response from corporate media has been stunning.
The death of an unarmed man who was subjected to a controversial form of police restraint has been ruled a homicide by a North Carolina State medical examiner. However, the post-mortem examination was hampered by the refusal of police to release body camera footage.
Police in Fletcher, NC, tased Christopher Robert Hensley twice and sat on him for four minutes. Body camera footage was not shared with medical examiners, who ruled Hensley’s death a homicide.
For nearly 40 years, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country’s elite through the direct occupation and settlement of fallow lands. Founded at the end of Brazil’s military dictatorship, thee now have settlements and occupations throughout the nation.
For nearly 40 years, Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) has been fighting the concentration of landownership among the country's elite through the direct occupation and settlement of fallow lands.
"Even before the pandemic, companies purposefully short staffed themselves to save on labor costs—just look at the situation on the railroads, in healthcare, in education, etc. That is to say, pushing people to the brink is a feature of our economic system, not a bug."
Recent pieces decrying 'quiet quitting' in the Wall Street Journal and other outlets just expose how corporate media writes for the interests of the ruling class, not workers.
Last year, over half of the 72 activists murdered in Mexico were Indigenous. Many others were lawyers or human rights activists supporting their struggles.
In a nation where much of the land is still communal property, US, Canadian, and European corporations are partnering with cartels to seize land and resource rights through terror and violence against Indigenous communities and activists.
It’s not just that media figures who sold the most devastating war crime of the 21st century never faced any professional consequences—they’re more powerful and influential now than ever.
The US share in global arms exports increased from 33% to 40% in 2018-22, and its ally France, the third-largest exporter of weapons, was also a significant beneficiary, with its share increasing from roughly 7.1% to 11%.
After months of massive strikes against plans to raise the retirement age, France's Macron has implemented his deeply unpopular pension reform by decree—overriding parliament and the will of millions of French workers.
Seymour Hersh, the journalist who uncovered the Mỹ Lai Massacre and torture at Abu Ghraib says America detonated the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines. The response from corporate media has been stunning.
A SWAT team illegally raided Indiana resident Chris Reiter’s home in 2020, severely injuring his girlfriend. Reiter has since dedicated his life to holding police accountable, and was recently jailed for his efforts.
A SWAT team illegally raided Indiana resident Chris Reiter's home in 2020, severely injuring his girlfriend. Reiter has since dedicated his life to holding police accountable, and was recently jailed for his efforts.
Workers are concerned about soaring rates of injury, high productivity quotas, incoherent policies, and a sudden warehouse closure.
Pressure is mounting against the planned police training center after a week of unprecedented police repression.
Activists protesting Atlanta's planned "Copy City" facility in Weelaunee Forest after the killing of Tortuguita face brutal repression.
Farmworkers in Florida are marching against slave conditions
Starting on March 14, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will lead a 5-day march to protest abuses in the farming industry and to compel companies like Wendy’s and Kroger to join the Fair Food Program.
Almost a year after the first union vote on Staten Island, the fight to unionize Amazon has spread across the country to the ONT8 warehouse in California, where workers are attempting to organize with the Amazon Labor Union.
As legalization spreads, profits in the cannabis industry are exploding, but the workers who make the industry run report low pay, overwork and burnout, and disrespect from management. That’s why these organizers are fighting to unionize cannabis workers.
Facing burnout from overwork, mistreatment from managers, and a cost of living crisis that is pummeling working people, Amazon workers at a warehouse in Coventry are making history and striking for higher wages.
Marc Steiner interviews Dan Berger, author of ‘Stayed on Freedom: the Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey’, along with Dr. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons, whose stories are featured in the book.
Marc Steiner interviews Dan Berger, author of 'Stayed on Freedom: the Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey', along with Dr. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons, whose stories are featured in the book.
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A cholera outbreak in Haiti’s notoriously overcrowded National Penitentiary is threatening more than 3,000 prisoners. Advocates are calling for the immediate decarceration of all incarcerated people from the prison.
Locomotive engineer Matt Parker's wife was in the hospital with #COVID19 for 25 days. That whole time, he had to report for work. As he told us, "it was by the grace of God, not by the grace of the railroad, that I was able to be here holding her hand as she passed away."
The conservative AKP government of Turkey has repeatedly banned all Pride marches since 2014. AKP politicians—including president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—and pro-government media continue to target and marginalize the LGBTQ community, calling them “perverts” and a threat to Turkish and Islamic values.
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