Amien Essif is a regular contributor to Working In These Times and maintains a blog called The Gazine, which focuses on consumerism, gentrification, and technology with a Luddite bent. His work has also appeared on the Guardian and CounterPunch. You can find him using Twitter reluctantly: @AmienChicago
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How Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing
The next Baltimore could be somewhere in Europe.
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A View of Germany’s Economy from Die Linke, the Left Party
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Germany Just Passed Its First-Ever Minimum Wage Law—And It Covers Interns
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The 9 Most Important Victories for Workers in 2014
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Illinois Public Employees Prepare for a Bruising Fight with Bruce Rauner
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Want Thanksgiving Off? Follow These Whole Foods Workers’ Example and Go On Strike
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Your Next Bike Share Ride May Be Powered By Union Labor
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Walmart’s Inhumane Policies for Pregnant Workers
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Grave Digger: “You’ve Got to Uphold Some Type of Integrity”
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After Defeating Democrats, Will Ohio Unionists Form a New Labor Party?
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Fast-Food Workers Turn Up the Heat
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McDonald’s Is ‘The Boss’—and That’s a Good Thing
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Receptionist: ‘It’s Basically Just a Job That I Do During the Day’
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A Staples Diet for Postal Workers
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Jess Spear, Socialist of the Sawant Persuasion
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Biggest Fast-Food Worker Strike Yet Covers Six Continents
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In Texas, Construction Reform Has an Unlikely Champion
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Tennessee Labor Activists Bring ‘Moral Monday’ to May Day
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SeaTac Workers Fight for Their 15
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Is Seattle’s Rideshare Crackdown Actually a Win for Taxi Drivers?
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Exotic Dancers Sue Strip Club for Labor Law Violation
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Told To Clock Their Hours, Some Illinois Professors Protest
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The 10 Biggest Wins for Labor in 2013
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How Chicago Whole Foods Workers Won Back Thanksgiving
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Ten Arrested at Chicago Wal-Mart in Black Friday Civil Disobedience
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The Sub-Subminimum Wage: Is It Legal to Pay $2 an Hour?
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Get the Door, It’s Domino’s (Drivers, Suing for a Fair Wage)
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A Bill of Rights for the Homeless
Several states are considering guaranteeing civil rights for those without a roof over their heads.
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Thousands Protest Verdict in Trayvon Martin Killing
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Chicago 11th-Graders Walk Out in Defiance of State-Mandated Test
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Bush OK-ed Torture After 9/11, Says Bipartisan Report
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The Hilarious Exxon Spoof That Was Blocked From Airing
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Bernie Sanders, Bank Buster
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Colorado Pot Tax May Exceed 30 Percent
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Gun Control Profiteers: How Hedge Funds Capitalized on Sandy Hook
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Anderson Cooper ‘GLAAD’ to Be Gay
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SNL Lays Into Justice Scalia and His Rant on “Racial Entitlement”
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Al Jazeera: Bradley Manning’s Plea, And Why He Did It
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Boeing Supply-Chain Workers Vote to Strike
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Farmer’s Clever Case Against Monsanto Didn’t Sway Supreme Court
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Thom Hartman: Will the Historic DC Climate Rally Make Change?
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Bill Moyers and Susan Crawford on Slow, Costly and Unfair Internet Access in U.S.
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‘So God Made a Farmworker’: Superbowl Ad Spoof
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Last Straw for Chicago Embroiderers: Working Through Thanksgiving
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Former GM Autoworker on Hunger Strike for Over 70 Days with Lips Sewn Shut
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TN Senator Proposes To Cut State Diversity Programs—in the Name of MLK
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Gabby Giffords Urges Senate to “Act Now” on Gun Control
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In Paris, More Than 100,000 Demonstrate in Support of Gay Marriage