Latest
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When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday
After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom
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We Need Racial Solidarity to Restore Abortion Rights
Fascism is definitely in our future unless we work together in these tumultuous times
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In Bessemer and the South, Black Workers Hold the Key
Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon Bessemer warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the South?
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The Labor Day Dreams of Black Workers
Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond
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How a Texan holiday became a national tradition
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Black Worker Centers: Building Workplace Power in the Communities
Worker centers in general serve as a clearinghouse for workers’ needs when forming a union is all but impossible
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Black Workers in Alabama Aim to Slay the Trillion-Dollar Behemoth That Is Amazon
“Amazon workers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and especially the 85% of Black Lives that go to that fulfillment center daily to work, but whose work is grossly undervalued”
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Black Families Have a Major Stake in the Future of the Postal Service
USPS is a vital source of decent jobs for Black workers. It could also narrow the racial wealth divide by expanding financial services
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When Black Movements Win, Everybody But the 1 Percent Wins
Movements can only answer the needs of those at the bottom by positioning them as decision-makers
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Led by Black Women, Organizers in Georgia Work to Replicate Election Success in Senate Runoff
After turning out Georgia voters in record numbers in the general election, organizers work to mobilize the youth vote in the pivotal Senate runoff election
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Insurgency Matters: Progressive DAs May Change Policing
A June 2020 poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found the 95 percent of those polled reported that criminal justice reform was necessary
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Nonwhite Voters Are Not Immune to the Appeal of Right-Wing Populism
From Toronto’s Rob Ford to Donald Trump, racist candidates attract nonwhite support. What gives?
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The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains
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Trump made gains with Black voters in some states. Here’s why.
With disinformation and economic promises, Trump lobbied hard for the Black vote in the final days of the campaign
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Meeting Trump’s Supporters in the Most Cuban Place Outside of Cuba
South Florida’s new Cuban immigrants are strong supporters of President Trump, offsetting the liberal trend among US-born Cuban-Americans
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The Media Has It Wrong. Record Latinx Turnout Helped Biden. White Voters Failed Dems
“The main story is that people of color, especially Latinos, flocked to the polls in numbers that far exceeded what the experts had expected, while the total number of votes cast by white Americans barely increased from the last presidential election”
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Campaign Analysts Miss the Signal in the Noise
Among the almost three-fourths of voters whose households make less than $100,000 a year, Trump trails badly
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Arizona’s Blue Shift Rooted in Years of Grassroots Latinx Organizing Against GOP’s Xenophobia
“The lion’s share of the credit belongs to sustained community organizing in the state”
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The debate over Biden’s running mate obscures a far more exciting development in American politics: that young people of color with clearly progressive values are running for office and winning
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Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
“Normal” isn’t good, as in the following warning in November 2019: "we declare, with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from around the world, clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.”
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America’s ‘Untouchables’: the Silent Power of the Caste System
More than a century and a half before the American Revolution, a human hierarchy had evolved on the soil of the future United States. To comprehend the current upheavals one must understand the human pyramid encrypted into us all: the caste system.
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Harlem’s Pearl – James Baldwin
Baldwin transformed a horrifying legacy of pain and rage into grace and light
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Federal Agents at Protests Renew Calls to Dismantle Homeland Security
After months of protests demanding the defunding of police, the abduction of protesters turns the focus to Homeland Security
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Raise the Social Cost: An Important Strategic Concept; No Justice, No Peace!
We should reach out and listen before we criticize some of their actions. These direct-action resisters have the potential or already are an important part of social movements and organizations that demand a better world
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Black Voters Are Ready. Are We?
Bernie Sanders proves the Left needs more than a charismatic presidential candidate (though it would help and be a whole lot of fun). We need a more diverse base of people, namely more Black people.
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#Hashtag Me TOO: Reflections on Women’s Solidarity
5 percent voted to elect the over 70, sexually aggressive, “pussy-grabbing” unproven and under-qualified man to the most powerful political office in the country.
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The vicious assault on counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia by a volatile amalgam of Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Alt-Right and other white nationalist forces was one of the most horrific acts of domestic terrorism in American history
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What happened in 1967 was that the police attacking an after-hours place encapsulated what was happening in the city every night. State power was pushing hard on a Black community—but that community wasn’t passive, but dynamic, full of ideas and energy.
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Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
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An independent Third Force must be multifaceted with the capacity to utilize community organizing, campaigns around issues, protests, marches, demonstrations, boycotts, elections and policy advocacy to advance a vision/mission and agenda for transformative change
Video
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Labor Notes Conference Panel Part 1
The United States is a capitalist, class society whose DNA is white supremacy
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The History of Race and Labor in the U.S.
Interview on the history of race and racism in the US from African slavery to today
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On the Unpopular James Baldwin
Dr. Cornel West joined us at Harvard Divinity School to discuss James Baldwin's legacy.
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On white privilege and terrorism
Audio
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Tom Morello Protest Song “Marching on Ferguson”
"100% of the profits from 'Marching On Ferguson' will support defending the protestors in the Ferguson area who have faced attacks, wrongful arrest, and violence from the police"
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Egypt’s Brotherhood, ready for the political arena?
In this month’s podcast for Le Monde diplomatique, George Miller talks...
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Argentina’s indigenous continue to struggle as country marks bi-centennial
Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of a revolution that paved the...
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Blackwater and Moving Beyond Obama
Jeremy Scahill is an award-winning investigative journalist who reports for...
Blogs
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Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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What does it mean to say rap music causes riots?
(originally posted at: http://towardtheunknownregion.blogspot.com/2011/08/rap-music-and-riots.html) I couldn't resist looking briefly at...
Books
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African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
About the Book As African societies come to live more...
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South Africa Pushed to the Limit: The Political Economy of Change
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked...
