Activism
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Newest Activism
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Staff: Richland, Washington protesters demand ‘No kids in cages’
On Feb. 27 more than 50 protesters gathered in Richland, Washington to demand that Pres. Joe Biden close the ICE concentration camps, release the detained children and abolish ICE.
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Fitz: From the Murder of Berta Cáceres to Dam Disaster in Uttarakhand
Two stories about the consequences of the insatiable greed of capitalism for more energy
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Kim: Asian American Communities Organize Against Rise in Hate Crimes
More Policing Is Not the Answer
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Win: A revolution in the making is taking place in Myanmar
Resistance to last month's military coup is doing away with the country's long-standing divisions of ethnicity, religion, domicile and occupation
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Chediac: 7 lies Amazon tells about the union
On average, union workers earn 27 percent more than nonunion workers
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Ramirez: Tyson Poultry Workers Say Their Bosses Have No Regard for Their Lives
Interview with a worker at a Tyson poultry plant in Arkansas about his fear of getting sick, what Tyson thinks of its workers, and how long it's been since he received any hazard pay.
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Raut: Pushing the tempo at Mumbai’s farm sit-in
At Mumbai's Azad Maidan, at a farmers' protest in late January, dhumsi and tarpa players from Adivasi communities in Maharashtra's Dahanu taluka opposed the new farm laws through song and dance
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Lindahl: Amazon union struggle takes hold in Southern state with radical labor history
The historic campaign, if successful, could spark a wave of unionization around the country
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Lin: Myanmar Workers and Unions on the Front Lines in Fight Against Coup
Workers in Myanmar have demonstrated that direct actions are powerful and they work
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Wilson: After Seven-Year Battle, Massachusetts Comcast Techs Win First Contract
After voting to form a union seven and a half years ago, Comcast technicians at the Fairhaven, Massachusetts, garage finally have a first contract
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Lobet: California’s Small Towns Ready to Fight Big Oil Over Air Quality
After organizing for three years, Lamont and Arvin, two rural communities in the heart of California’s oilfields have won a direct say in reducing the air pollution from oil, gas and agriculture production
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Shabazz: “We Want the Truth Uncovered”
Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz Backs New Probe into Assassination
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Kolhatkar: Black Lives Still Don’t Matter in America
A welcome change in national leadership in the U.S. means little for the scourge of racism infecting the nation—unless words are matched by action.
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Saunders: To Honor Black History, Fund Our Front-Line Heroes
Over the last year, some 1.3 million public service jobs, many of them held by African Americans — including nurses, teachers, EMTs and sanitation workers — have evaporated because of holes the pandemic blew open in state and local budgets
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Gorky: McDonald’s spies on employees organizing for a living wage
New reports show that McDonald’s has spied on workers “for years” in their effort to combat the Fight for $15 movement that has been struggling for a living wage for nearly a decade
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Klein: India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech
Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists
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Greenhouse: ‘We Deserve More’: an Amazon Warehouse’s High-Stakes Union Drive
Workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are pushing for a union – and experts say if they triumph, it could pave the way to organizing fulfillment centers in other states
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South East Asia: Myanmar’s ‘civil disobedience movement’
Myanmar’s activists have produced many inventive ways of protesting
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Raskin: What Lawrence Ferlinghetti Means to Me
I will remember him as editor, publisher, poet and painter who invigorated the literary scene in San Francisco and who connected the city and its citizens to the cultures of the world
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Stender: Chicago Teachers Union’s commitment to democracy pays off
Negotiations with the capitalist class are always incomplete. They are always a compromise. There can be no full victory save through socialist revolution
ZMag Activism
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Chomsky: Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck, Part 1
Unless working people, the general population, take part in the class struggle, they’re going to get it in the neck
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Kolhatkar: Millions of India’s Farmers Are in a Fight for Their Economic Lives
Photo by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock.com India’s farmers are revolting against Prime Minister...
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Cook: I Am Greta isn’t about climate change. It’s about the elusiveness of sanity in an insane world
We are in an ideological bubble—and one that will burst as surely as the financial kind. Thunberg is that still, small voice of sanity outside the bubble
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Chomsky: Trump Has Revealed the Extreme Fragility of American Democracy
I think both Trump and Trumpism will remain with us for a long time, both the individual himself and the poisonous currents he has unleashed
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Flowers: The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All
This time around, the “Yes we can” slogan so common under Obama must mean that, yes, the people can overcome the plutocrats and put people over profits
Activism Video
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Sanders: Amazon Workers in Alabama Are Fighting for a Union
The fight you are waging will send a message to workers all across the country that if they stand up, stand together, and fight, they can win
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Emanuele: Indiana Activist with a Community Center gets things done
Interview on sociopolitical issues that needlessly divide us