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Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen is a contributing editor at In These Times, a contributor to Working In These Times, and an editor at CultureStrike. She is also a co-producer of Asia Pacific Forum on Pacifica’s WBAI. Her work has appeared on Alternet, Colorlines.com, Ms., and The Nation, Newsday, and her old zine, cain. Follow her on Twitter at @meeshellchen or reach her at michellechen [at] inthesetimes [dot] com.
Most Recent Articles
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Why Safer Food Workers Mean Safer Food
Americans these days are nervous about what they eat, and they should be, what with outbreaks of foodborne more »
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Recruitment Abuses Emerge in Immigration Reform Debate
Archiel Buagas thought she was doing everything right. The young Filipina nurse secured a special work visa to more »
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Why the Dubai Strike Matters
From a distance, Dubai shines like an oasis of modernity in in the desert, with its glass towers more »
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Anger Rising in Bangladesh, Putting Big Brands Under Pressure
It’s been about a month since the Rana Plaza factory complex crumbled into a cement grave more »
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A Budget That Tightens Belts by Emptying Stomachs
A time-honored tactic of conservative lawmakers is to “starve the beast”by defunding government programs. In more »
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Farmworkers Fight Wendy’s, the ‘Last Holdout’ on Fair Food
While rain pattered gently on the concrete steps of Manhattan’s Union Square last Saturday, a group more »
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A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers
With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has enough workers in its Chinese more »
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As Death Toll in Bangladesh Collapse Climbs Past 1,000, Another Factory Fire Claims 8 Lives
Bodies continue to pile up at Rana Plaza, once a powerhouse of Bangladesh’s garment industry, where more »
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That Unemployment Form Might Violate Your Civil Rights
If you think being jobless is tough, try applying for unemployment benefits. In Florida, simply filling out the more »
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Farmworkers Dig Into the New ‘Blue Card’ Plan
Last week, immigrants’ rights groups finally got the papers they’ve been waiting for, an 844-page more »
