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‘You Are an Inspiration,’ Sanders Tells LA Hotel Workers Fighting for Just...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined hospitality workers in downtown Los Angeles on Friday as they picketed outside one of the dozens of hotels that have yet to reach a contract deal with UNITE HERE Local...
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A Renter’s Tax Credit Would Help People Like Me Stay in Our Homes
I spent my first birthday in a shelter. Decades later, after doing all I was supposed to do to lift myself up out of poverty, I’m sofa hopping with my children. I’m a parent coordinator with the...
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The For-Profit Nursing Home Scam
Last June, an elderly stroke survivor residing at Chicago’s Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center fell to the floor while being transferred by mechanical lift from his bed to a shower chair. The...
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Big Oil Ignores Millions of Climate Deaths When Billions in Profit Are at Stake
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate change. Burning fossil fuels and destroying forests have...
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The Green New Deal: From Below or from Above?
The original Green New Deal resolution took as its models not only the original New Deal but also the home front mobilization for World War II. A fully developed Green New Deal will need both the kind...
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Are EVs Truly the Greenest Form of Transportation?
A friend recently told me of a new study showing that the “life cycle” of electric vehicles (EVs) causes fewer CO2 emissions than gas-powered cars. This is important since research comparing greenhouse...
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Don’t Fear “Collectivism”
The capacity of the reactionary mind to invent catchall signifiers of supposed left-wing depravity often seems limitless. But in the canon of conservative epithets, there is probably none more common...
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Republicans Have Plans for Working People
Recently, you may have noticed that the hot weather is getting ever hotter. Every year the United States swelters under warmer temperatures and longer periods of sustained heat. In fact, each of the...
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A Reply To Glenn Loury’s Appeal to the Court of Public Opinion on Behalf of...
Capitalism, the plastic bucket we are all crammed in for (give or take) 77.5 years, incentivizes the Seven Deadly Sins of the Roman Catholic Church. So much so that In March of 2008, the Vatican...
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Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report
The average U.S. taxpayer was forced to contribute more to militarized programs than to Medicare and Medicaid combined in 2023, according to a new analysis released Tuesday by the National Priorities...
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Indonesia’s Nepo Baby Takes Charge
On September 16, 2023, fire at Indonesia’s National Museum swept through the roof and back wall, causing the building to collapse. It remains closed. Officially no one was blamed. Down the street from...
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German Capitalism & German Neo-Nazis
Things seem to be different this time around. The current year, 2024, is unlike the year 1934 when Hitler solidified his fascist power ending democracy. Neither is it like 1939, the year when Hitler’s...
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Bus Drivers Strike with Climate Activists in 57 German Cities
Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting down bus systems with...
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A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun
By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services. Some examples include...
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Big Oil is Quietly Paying State Legal Officials to Kill Climate Litigation
At the Society of Environmental Journalists conference this year, we heard about a promising legal case that experts believe actually has a real shot at holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for...
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Why Are Politicians Still Courting the Nefarious Fossil Fuel Lobby?
From March 18 to 22, 2024, the oil and gas industry held its major annual conference, CERAWeek, in Houston, Texas. The conference speakers included the usual rogues’ gallery of fossil fuel CEOs from...
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Solidarity Forever: Building Movements Amid Today’s Crises
“None of us benefit from a burning planet,” says activist and documentarian Astra Taylor on this week’s Deconstructed. Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix join Ryan Grim to discuss their new book,...
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Tenants Are Forcing Bay Area Landlords to the Bargaining Table
On February 13, 2024, eight tenants met with three representatives from their new corporate landlord in a conference room at the office of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco (HRC). The...
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Two Years In, These “Progressive” Companies Still Haven’t Negotiated First...
Claire Chang and Steve Buckley knew it wasn’t going to be easy. But the two retail workers-turned-union organizers had been heartened by progress made during the first year of contract negotiations...
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Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving — and Workers Writhing
How do you know when you can finally rate as certifiably super rich? One simple test: You can look at the menu that greeted the over 100 wealthy souls who gathered earlier this month at the Palm Beach...
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