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‘I can’t in good conscience vote for Kamala’: Chicagoans react to the DNC
The Democratic National Convention is well underway in Chicago. Beyond the bright lights and glamor of the convention floor, what does the DNC mean for working people in this city, and how do workers...
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Uncommitted delegates explain why they disrupted the DNC for Gaza
The mood inside the Democratic National Convention is triumphant, but not everyone is content to toe the party line. On the first day of the convention, three uncommitted delegates dropped a banner...
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EXCLUSIVE: UAW’s Shawn Fain on Trump, Democrats, & winning the class war
Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, didn’t mince words in his speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Wearing a shirt with the words “TRUMP IS A SCAB” emblazoned on the front,...
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University of Illinois Hospital nurses strike against low wages, workplace...
Nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital on Chicago’s West Side have gone on strike after a prolonged contract negotiation that union representatives say management hasn’t taken seriously. The...
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Organized labor shows up for Palestine
On Aug 23, dozens of labor organizers and allies joined the thousands of demonstrators marching within sight and sound of the DNC for the final March on the DNC action in Chicago, Illinois. The Real...
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Thousands march on the final night of the DNC
After a week of protests, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets for a final March on the DNC, marching within sight and sound of the United Center on the concluding day of the 2024 Democratic...
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Palestine shook the DNC—where does the solidarity movement go from here?
Throughout the week of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, Palestine and US support for Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza was the issue that could not be ignored or silenced. From the...
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UAW endorses Harris, but won’t stop fighting for ceasefire in Gaza
The United Auto Workers union has become a major political force in the US, and the union’s endorsement of Kamala Harris carries a lot of weight in the lead-up to the general election in November. But...
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Democrats express no urgency, offer no clear plan, on the climate crisis at DNC
The climate crisis is intensifying every year. From deadly, record-breaking heatwaves and forest fires to rising sea levels, the devastating impacts of man-made climate change are being felt across...
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US-trained military in Uganda targets oil pipeline protesters
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Aug. 26, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Police and soldiers from Uganda’s U.S.-trained...
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Remembering the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War
On August 29, 1970, the Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War mobilized the largest Chicano protest and the largest anti-war protest led by a community of color at the time. Combining a critique...
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Movement media organizations are coming together to build power
This story originally appeared in Truthout on Aug. 28, 2024. It is shared here with permission. Last November, 25 media-makers from 15 independent U.S.-based organizations came together around a long...
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Is anyone in power responsible for anything?
I’ve never thought it very useful to poke and prod everything Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says, mostly because I feel like criticism of her often takes on a strange disproportionality, and is a...
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Union leaders explain why they’re demanding an end to US aid to Israel
The death toll in Gaza continues to climb, with conservative estimates putting the numbers of dead around 40,000, but a recent report in the British medical journal The Lancet estimates the actual...
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First a violent arrest, then threats of the psych ward: A Utah woman’s police...
Darcy Layton was pleasantly surprised with a free sweater and fruit from her local convenience store—but what she didn’t know was that a more sinister surprise was awaiting her outdoors. Without...
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UK fascists set the country ablaze with pogroms—until anti-fascists fought back
Misinformation and a tragic mass stabbing, which killed children in the English city of Stockport, sparked violent far-right disorder across England and Ireland from July 30 to Aug 5. Online...
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‘Whitewashing genocide’: How Democrats and the media kept Gaza out of the DNC
From rumors that Beyonce was going to perform to Uncommitted delegates staging an all-night sit-in outside the United Center to demand that a Palestinian voice be given time to speak on the main...
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As Democrats fold to GOP on border policy, immigrants pay the price
Kamala Harris has made it clear that, while a new name is now at the top of the Democratic ticket in the 2024 elections, the party policy on immigration and the border has not changed and will not...
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Invest in housing, not prisons: California’s war on the homeless
The housing and affordability crisis is getting worse, and more people around the country are facing the grim reality of homelessness. Rather than treating housing as a human right and committing to...
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What the Chicano Movement can teach us about organizing Latinos today
With Donald Trump continuing to demonize immigrants, especially immigrants from Latin America, and with Republicans calling for “Mass Deportation Now,” Latinos in the US find themselves in the...
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