Kari Lydersen
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Exhibits of Conscience
A nationwide initiative pulls museums into one of today's most highly charged issues: immigration. more
vol. 33, iss. 12 human rights, immigration, social justice
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Union Sparring in California Gets Even Uglier
By Kari Lydersen The battle between SEIU and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) over organzing home… more
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Manager’s Conviction Cold Comfort for Detained Immigrant Workers
By Kari Lydersen On Thursday, Sholom Rubashkin, former manager of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa,… more
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Hard-Wired for PTSD: Scientists Shed Light on Troops’ Occupational Risk
By Kari Lydersen ATLANTA, GA.—The Fort Hood shooting has once again focused national attention on the various and… more
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The Hidden Cost of Storytelling: Journalists and PTSD
By Kari LydersenJohn McCusker was living his dream as a photojournalist covering his beloved and colorful hometown… more
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Rank & File Rabble-Rousers Agree: Union Leaders Out of Touch
By Kari Lydersen CHICAGO—Don't wait around for your lethargic union leadership—get out there and organize, organize, organize. Seek… more
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Good News for Former Republic Windows Workers
By Kari Lydersen CHICAGO—Serious Materials, the California company that bought Republic Windows and Doors factory after workers occupied… more
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Rethinking Green Jobs on the Rez
By Kari Lydersen Native American lands in the west – from the Dakotas to Arizona – are sometimes… more
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Native American Uranium Miners Still Suffer, As Industry Eyes Rebirth
By Kari Lydersen ACOMA, NEW MEXICO—On the Navajo Nation, almost everyone you talk to either worked in uranium… more
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Chronicling Illinois’ Forgotten Mine Wars
By Kari Lydersen The brutal battles fought by union miners in Appalachia are legendary. But Illinois artist and… more
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Clean Coal: A Dirty Business?
The former vice president was speaking in Madison to the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) annual convention. The… more
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Bronx Bakery Closing Imminent, But Union Continues Fighting
By Kari LydersenThe historic Stella D’Oro bakery in the Bronx may close as early as Oct. 9,… more
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Activists, Unionists Hold National Conference to ‘Fight Back’
By Kari Lydersen “They say cut back, we say fight back” was the rallying cry and title of… more
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American Apparel Stripped of 1,800 Workers—to What Effect?
By Kari Lydersen The firing of 1,800 apparently undocumented workers at American Apparel’s Los Angeles garment factory, forced… more
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Michael Moore Shows Scrappy Union Some Love in ‘Capitalism’
By Kari Lydersen CHICAGO—Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, is an infuriating, somewhat terrifying and hilarious… more
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Mexican Maquila Worker Femicide Back in Spotlight
By Kari Lydersen The confirmation of Arturo Chavez Chavez as Mexico’s new attorney general Thursday brought a story… more
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Despite Recession, Millions of U.S. Migrant Workers Stay Put
There has been considerable talk in the U.S. about how the economic crisis may be the immigration curb… more
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Landmark Verdict: Jury Slaps ADM With $6.7M Wrongful Death Judgment
When he was still a teenager, Francisco Moreno Garcia left his small hometown in southern Mexico for El… more
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Bringing Black Americans Into the Green Economy
It is fitting that Chicagoan Naomi Davis named her organization Blacks In Green, or BIG, because the attorney,… more
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Tar Sands: Big Money, But at What Cost?
Alberta’s tar sands industry is often described as an environmental disaster, a catastrophe, even an apocalypse, tearing up… more
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In Great Lakes, Invasive Species Create Labor Quandary
Late last week, the U.S. Coast Guard issued regulations that longshoremen, shipping industry executives and environmentalists had long… more
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Chicago Teamsters Strike for Healthcare and Steady Wage
It is difficult to hold a conversation on a cool Friday night outside the brick S-K Hand Tools… more
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Canadian Steel Workers Take on Global Mining Giant
A subsidiary of the world's second-largest mining company is defying about 3,000 striking United Steel Workers union members… more
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Hartmarx ‘Victory’ No Longer Sweet for Rock Island Workers
In June, the 350 workers at the Seaford Clothing Company plant in Rock Island, Ill., celebrated along with… more
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Salvadorans Fight Privatized ‘Agua Apocalyse’
El Salvador is a lush, green country that gets three times the world's average rainfall. But only 60… more
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A Taxing Profession: Cabbies Face Low Pay, Long Hours, High Risk
On July 24 the federal minimum wage was raised to $7.25 an hour. But that won’t help Chicago… more
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Honduras Coup: The Labor Angle
The “golpistas” who took power in Honduras after forcibly expelling president Manuel Zelaya on June 28 have largely… more
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Litterers or Life-Savers?
Government prosecutes activists who leave water for immigrants more
vol. 33, iss. 09
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Colombian Unionists Still Under Attack
When I first met union leader Luis Adolfo Cardona in Chicago five years ago, I was stunned to… more
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In Rural Michigan, Prison-Closing Blues
When residents of Standish, a small, close-knit town in northern Michigan, heard 20 years ago that a maximum… more
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A Toothier WARN Act for Workers?
The past year’s epidemic of mass lay-offs by businesses ranging from factories to financial services has made many… more
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Green Jobs: Hope and Hype
As I mentioned in a previous post, there is much murkiness and hype surrounding the question of what… more
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‘Green Jobs’ Aren’t Growing Quickly at Republic Factory in Chicago
The phrase “green jobs” has been thrown out right and left recently, with everything from urban farming to… more
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Burrito Battle
By Kari Lydersen The hip fast-food Mexican chain Chipotle has long marketed itself as a more ethical and… more
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Mexican Miners’ Strike Enters Second Year, as Cross-Border Solidarity Continues
Swine flu and escalating brutal drug violence have dominated headlines about Mexico in the past six months. Drug-related… more
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Labor Organization Tries to Stir up Restaurant Worker Solidarity
Jose Oliva is lost in thought as he holds the drink menu to his face and peeks over… more
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Fighting the Cloud Factory
Marisol Becerra dreams of a clean neighborhood and world. more
vol. 33, iss. 07
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The Legacy Lives On
The Republic Windows and Doors factory occupation in Chicago inspired a similar revolt halfway across the country. more
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Global Warming Accelerates
As sea levels rise faster than expected, political and social catastrophes loom. more
vol. 33, iss. 04 environment
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In Mexico, Resistance is Futile
John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered. more
vol. 33, iss. 02 books, mexico, social justice
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No Choice for Immigrants
Catholic Bishops and HHS trample reproductive rights of teens in federal custody more
vol. 33, iss. 01 immigration, reproductive rights
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Monsanto Beets Down Opposition
Environmental and public health groups are suing the USDA to stop the planting of Roundup Ready-proof GMO sugar beets more
vol. 32, iss. 12 agriculture, environment
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An Unfolding Crisis in the Wake of Mississippi ICE Raid
The workplace raid at the Howard Industries electronics plant in Laurel, Miss., was the largest in U.S. history more
vol. 32, iss. 11 corporations, immigration, labor
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Canaries in the Uranium Mine
Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land more
vol. 32, iss. 07
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Dirty Smoke Signals
Navajo Nation weighs costs and benefits of coal mining on its land more
vol. 32, iss. 05
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Salties Ordered to Swish and Spit
Zebra mussels, "bloody red shrimp," quagga mussels and round gobies are a few of the invasive species that have… more
vol. 32, iss. 03
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No New Year Resolutions?
SEC proposes curbing shareholder power more
vol. 32, iss. 01 corporations, regulation
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Harassment Unchecked at Army Hotel
Sexual abuse and rape in military culture--and a lack of action by military authorities--are long-standing problems, brought to light with the Tailhook scandal in 1991 more
vol. 31, iss. 11 gender, military, military, womens rights
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On Strike Without a Union
Cygnus employees prove they are a 'pea that weighs a pound' more
vol. 31, iss. 10 immigration, labor
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In the Crosshairs
Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal invited people to shoot him, and got all too many takers more
vol. 31, iss. 07 art, middle east, technology
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Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville
Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans more
vol. 31, iss. 06 asia, corporations, environment
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Abuses Alleged During Immigration Raid
Seventeen immigrants detained for several weeks after an immigration raid at a candy packaging company in the Chicago suburbs… more
vol. 31, iss. 05 activism, immigration
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Robben Island Singers
Let's go, let's go and fight; we don't know where we're going, but fight we must," sing Grant Shezi,… more
vol. 31, iss. 04 activism, africa
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Rolling Back the Regs
Emissions limits on coal-fired power plants, endangered species protections that inhibit logging, and restrictions on chemicals in drinking water… more
vol. 31, iss. 03 environment, regulation
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Families Behind Bars
U.S. immigration policy is putting kids in jail more
vol. 31, iss. 02 central america, immigration, prison
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Kiko Martinez: Watch Listed for Life
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Francisco "Kiko" Martinez, a Colorado civil rights attorney and long-time Chicano activist, was flying… more
vol. 31, iss. 01 civil rights, national security
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Immigrants Sue to Retrieve Funds Seized in Arizona
Immigrants sue to retrieve fudns seized by Arizona state government. more
vol. 30, iss. 11 economy, immigration, judiciary
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An Activist Left Behind
Building peace in Colombia was the focus of the international conference in Chicago where Orlando Valencia, an Afro-Colombian activist,… more
vol. 29, iss. 24 activism, war and peace
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Women’s Work
Female union members are gaining clout, but are still shut out of top labor positions more
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The Ousting of Obrador
Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, otherwise known as AMLO or “el peje” after a lovable swamp fish,… more
vol. 29, iss. 12
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Project Kesher: Creating Connections
Since the murder of more than 300 people in a Beslan school seized by Chechen militants in September, Russians… more
vol. 29, iss. 03 europe, gender, social justice
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Migrant Pickers Expose Slavery Rings
Florida—Mathieu Beaucicot is an immigrant from Haiti who came to the United States 11 years ago to earn money… more
vol. 28, iss. 06
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Camping Out
Plan Colombia, globalization stir unrest in Ecuador. more
vol. 26, iss. 11 south america
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- Last Visit November 14, 2009
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