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A billion dollars is nothing to the government. But America would be staggered to see what 10,000 new union organizers could do with it. Please: get this money, before it’s too late.
“They care more about stock market figures than working class lives”
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“As he becomes smaller in terms of support … he becomes more dangerous.”

Alberts argues that weakness is not the enemy. Indifference to suffering is the real foe; indifference, lack of empathy, is what saps us of our moral footing

The prime objective of management studies is to legitimize a single institution: management
Despite what you’ve read, most of them didn’t resist

The PM had once said that the constitution is our ‘holy book’. Here’s a look at sins he should be worried about, much more than those in the Old Testament

The Biden administration could halt an attack on one of the government’s few options to rein in drug prices
Leaders from dozens of countries around the world have signed onto a joint statement calling for the creation of an international treaty that would address pandemics that will come about in the future
It’s ironic that the loudest complaints about “cancel culture” are coming from people who are so afraid of students engaging critically with challenging ideas that they want to shut it down entirely.
Indigenous Youth Rally to Demand Biden Stop Pipelines
The world’s first Amazon supply chain strike was a success, with an average adhesion of 70-75%, with peaks of 90%.
Despite warnings, American and European officials gave up leverage that could have guaranteed access for billions of people. That risks prolonging the pandemic
Nawal was someone who unabashedly crossed all boundaries set by religious, political and societal authorities
United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information
Frontline cleaning workers have faced rampant negligence from governments and corporations worldwide during the pandemic, despite being the first line of defense against the virus

It’s not radical to rein in this irresponsibility. It’s radical to let it continue.
A new bill cosponsored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would finally give Puerto Ricans the chance to decide their political relationship with the United States

Nearly three million people have reportedly been killed by the novel coronavirus (SAR-CoV-2) and upwards of 128 million people have been infected by the virus
Belligerent abroad and oppressive at home, the government’s rhetoric is being gradually cemented into law – to which protest is the only answer
The lure of a perpetually rising standard of living administered by corporate America can be seen for what it always was: a capitalist mirage

The GOP believes Georgia’s voters can’t be trusted to choose their senators and governor. Rather, Republicans are counting on Jim Crow to “true the vote.”

“Our mission is to create a District Attorney’s office that is ethical, equitable, compassionate, and accountable to all of its constituents so that we may end the era of mass incarceration in New Orleans.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to social media Tuesday night with a detailed reminder of the root causes of Central Americans and other migrants seeking asylum at the United States’ southern border
Organizing in the Boston Area

Many Millennials who become unchurched cite discomfort with the prejudice and discrimination against LGBTQ persons in churches
The use of massive police force to evict the most vulnerable comes as special cruelty in the midst of the nation’s worst pandemic
To those concerned that having organized labor so close to seats of power might lead to more pro-worker policies, we say: Good
COVID Deaths Soar & Hospitals Overflow Amid Unprecedented Political Upheaval

Canada’s pro-Israel lobby is pressuring New Democratic Party leadership to suppress debate around a pro-Palestinian resolution
The PRO Act is vital to restoring the NLRA’s promise of bringing industrial democracy to American workplaces

Withdrawing several thousand U.S. troops from Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg
It’s a longstanding paradox: civilians with no experience of battle tend to be more zealous warmongers than the military themselves
Crossroads, I Live Where I Like portrays a unique feminist effort, whose leaders struggled for the basics of survival for their families and friends, for which some of them paid with their lives
In the long run, vaccine nationalism, and the protectionism of rich countries against poor countries, helps no one
In Michigan, community organizations have long been pushing for systemic change and seem to have increased momentum due to the crisis

Could the U.S. and China Face an Unintended Blowup in the Western Pacific in the Biden Years?

The protection of human rights is being geopolitically manipulated to mobilize public support for an anti-Chinese foreign policy in the West that risks generating a dangerous geopolitical confrontation
If the Left is to succeed where past generations have failed, it can’t allow sectarian organizations to operate as “parties within a party”

“Time and again Palestine activists have faced false claims that they broke the rules followed by attempts to either blame them for their own censorship or drown their victories in red tape”
A new report on digital rights in ten African countries reveals how states are waging a brutal online war against their own citizens

Admitting that they can’t get majorities to vote for their collection of corporate lackeys, conspiracy theorists, and bigoted old white guys, the GOP hierarchy’s Great Hope is to shove as many Democratic voters as possible out of our elections

Instead of reporting $2 trillion as some big scary number, often not even telling people the time period involved, it would be helpful if news outlets tried to put the number in contexts that would make it meaningful to their readers
‘Military Chiefs Quit Amid Bolsonaro Purge of Top Ministers
The music industry today is largely about music streaming platforms, and Spotify is the dominant music streaming platform globally
Whatever its shortcomings, the JDA is the product of a long, thoughtful process of ethical dialogue between an international body of scholars and a broad range of interest groups, all of whom are deeply invested in combating antisemitism
Rather than shame people for not having access to the vaccine, we should be shaming capitalism for failing to provide vaccines for the poor people of the world

A decade after the 2011 Revolution, a new generation of Tunisians is back on the streets as a broad, intersectional movement united through grassroots militancy

The arrest of Jeanine Áñez, head of Bolivia’s erstwhile coup regime, is a vindication of the struggles of the Bolivian people