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‘A great day’: workers at second southern auto industry plant join UAW
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sep. 4, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. “The new jobs of the South will be union jobs,”...
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Panama. US Invasion. | Under the Shadow, Episode 13
On December 20, 1989, the United States invaded Panama with tens of thousands of troops. It was the largest US invasion since Vietnam. The first US military action since the fall of the Berlin Wall...
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‘Big L for Macron’: The Paris Olympics were a political catastrophe
The 2024 Olympics have come and gone. For an entire month, The Real News’ Dave Zirin was on the ground in Paris covering the stories corporate media wouldn’t—from the struggle of Paris activists...
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Canada is ending Jewish National Fund’s charitable status
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Sep 5, 2024. It is shared here with permission. The recent revocation of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) charitable status may be the most important...
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From polio to hepatitis: Gaza’s health crisis is a ticking time bomb
Polio. Chickenpox. Hepatitis. The threat of epidemics is looming large in Gaza, thanks to Israel’s deliberate destruction of the Strip’s healthcare and sanitation infrastructure. Left without clean...
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New report exposes DC police using arrests and tickets to score revenue for...
The role of financial incentives in mass incarceration is often thought of in terms of the role of private contractors and private prisons. But the far greater financial incentive in mass...
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WHO chief warns of ‘perfect storm of crises’ in Sudan as world turns its back
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sep. 9, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The head of the World Health Organization on...
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Truth and reckoning
This story originally appeared in Yes! Magazine on Sep. 4, 2024. It is shared here with permission. When I was in middle school, at a majority-white public school in Montana, I was given an assignment...
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Rooted as the olive trees: Palestinian farmers’ fight against land theft in...
Israel’s war on Palestine has now decisively expanded to the West Bank, where the most aggressive IDF military campaign in decades is now underway. Yet not all was well in the West Bank before this...
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Black, conservative, and unapologetic: A deep dive with the Black women...
Recent polling data suggests a near twenty percent increase the number of Black men voting for Trump in 2024 while Black women remain the bedrock of the Democratic party and their most loyal and...
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‘Purgatory’: Gaza’s workers trapped in the West Bank
Since Oct. 7, the world has looked on in horror at Israel’s brutal annihilation of Gaza. But Israel’s collective punishment of Palestinians also includes thousands of laborers from this coastal strip...
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Harris clobbered Trump in the debate—but does it matter?
Cats and dogs. Truth and lies. Substance and spectacle. The second presidential debate of the 2024 election, and the first between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, took place on Sept. 10. In stark...
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Defending Trump may seem absurd—I spoke to a Black woman who does it every day
There’s no denying the Trump campaign is trying to court Black voters, and the appeal to protect “Black jobs” from immigrants seems designed to do precisely that. While support for Trump among Black...
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The Harris-Trump debate was a slap in the face to us all
Christa Graves, Resident of East Palestine, Ohio Tonight, the evening of the presidential debate, I sit here wondering, “What’s the point? Does it change anyone’s vote?” Here in East Palestine, Ohio,...
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In 8 days, Missouri could execute an innocent man
The State of Missouri is scheduled to execute Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Sept. 24 for a crime that even prosecutors now say he did not commit. On Sept. 12, a Missouri judge denied a motion...
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‘We’re fighting for the future’: Boeing machinists on strike
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sep. 13, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. “We’re fighting for every family,” said the...
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Into the maelstrom: Can French democracy survive its political crisis?
France was the birthplace of modern democracy, and it may well be the start of its end. After the surprise victory of the left New Popular Front in this year’s elections, President Macron has betrayed...
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‘An act of terror’: Israel behind pager explosions that killed 11, wounded...
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sep. 18, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Several news outlets confirmed late Tuesday what...
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When work inspires art: Labor poet George Fish
While Maximillian Alvarez was inside the Labor Notes conference this past April, attending panels and sharing space with intelligent, hard working organizers, Mel Buer was wandering the conference...
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Teamsters decline to endorse in 2024 US presidential race
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sep. 18, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. For the first time in decades—and in a break...
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