Latest
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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
By: Marc Bayard
Leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates share their visions for advancing racial equity in the Covid recovery — and beyond
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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
By: Luis Feliz León
“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
By: Sarah Anderson
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
By: Megan L. Jordan, Joshua Murray, Michael Schwartz & Kevin A. Young
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
By: Travis Mannon
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
By: David Rosen
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
By: Murtaza Hussain
From Toronto’s Rob Ford to Donald Trump, racist candidates attract nonwhite support. What gives?
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By: Collective 20
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.
By: Sean Collins
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
By: Juan Gonzalez
“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
By: Jim Naureckas
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
By: Marisa Franco
“The lion’s share of the credit belongs to sustained community organizing in the state”
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By: Sonali Kolhatkar
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
By: Mel Gurtov
“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
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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
By: Michael K. Smith
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
By: Alice Speri
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!
By: Peter Bohmer
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?
By: Phillip Agnew
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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Detroiters lack privilege to distance socially
Source: Deadline Detroit The “hood” is the center of many...
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Why Bernie Sander’s Campaign Mattered….And Faltered
By: Ron Daniels
For all of his brilliance and accomplishments, Bernie’s flawed approach on race may render him incapable of being more than the titular head of the movement he birthed
Zmag
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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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By: Ron Daniels
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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By: Dan Georgakas
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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By: Lane Windham
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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By: Ron Daniels
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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The History of Race and Labor in the U.S.
By: Bill Fletcher
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
By: Cornel West
Dr. Cornel West joined us at Harvard Divinity School to discuss James Baldwin's legacy.
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A discussion on race, gender, feminism, and socialism
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German Weapons Exports to Israel & Saudi Arabia and the Refugee Crisis
By: Noam Chomsky
Interview on the impacts of arms and weapons exports into Saudi Arabia and the refugee and Syrian crisis that is engulfing neighboring states as well as the European continent
Audio
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Tom Morello Protest Song “Marching on Ferguson”
By: Tom Morello
"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?
By: Gilbert Achcar
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
By: Marie Trigona
Argentina celebrates the bicentennial of a revolution that paved the...
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Blackwater and Moving Beyond Obama
By: Jeremy Scahill
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
By: Brian Dominick
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?
By: Oliver Kearns
(originally posted at: http://towardtheunknownregion.blogspot.com/2011/08/rap-music-and-riots.html) I couldn't resist looking briefly at...
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11 / Through Nationalism To Parculture
By: Michael Albert
This is a draft of Chapter Eleven – not for...
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...