Kari Lydersen - In These Times

Kari Lydersen is a Chicago-based journalist, author and assistant professor at Northwestern University, where she leads the investigative specialization at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Her books include Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99%.

Hartmarx ‘Victory’ No Longer Sweet for Rock Island Workers

Salvadorans Fight Privatized ‘Agua Apocalyse’

A Taxing Profession: Cabbies Face Low Pay, Long Hours, High Risk

Honduras Coup: The Labor Angle

Litterers or Life-Savers?

Government prosecutes activists who leave water for immigrants

Colombian Unionists Still Under Attack

In Rural Michigan, Prison-Closing Blues

A Toothier WARN Act for Workers?

Green Jobs: Hope and Hype

‘Green Jobs’ Aren’t Growing Quickly at Republic Factory in Chicago

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Burrito Battle

Mexican Miners’ Strike Enters Second Year, as Cross-Border Solidarity Continues

Labor Organization Tries to Stir up Restaurant Worker Solidarity

Fighting the Cloud Factory

Marisol Becerra dreams of a clean neighborhood and world.

The Legacy Lives On

The Republic Windows and Doors factory occupation in Chicago inspired a similar revolt halfway across the country.

Coal Mountain Elementary

Big Coal has worked its way into the classroom.

Global Warming Accelerates

As sea levels rise faster than expected, political and social catastrophes loom.

In Mexico, Resistance is Futile

John Gibler chronicles a country embattled, but not conquered.

No Choice for Immigrants

Catholic Bishops and HHS trample reproductive rights of teens in federal custody

Monsanto Beets Down Opposition

Environmental and public health groups are suing the USDA to stop the planting of Roundup Ready-proof GMO sugar beets

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

Canaries in the Uranium Mine

Navajos gear up for renewed legal battle to protect their life and land

Dirty Smoke Signals

Navajo Nation weighs costs and benefits of coal mining on its land

Salties Ordered to Swish and Spit

No New Year Resolutions?

SEC proposes curbing shareholder power

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

On Strike Without a Union

Cygnus employees prove they are a 'pea that weighs a pound'

In the Crosshairs

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal invited people to shoot him, and got all too many takers

Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville

Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans

Abuses Alleged During Immigration Raid

Robben Island Singers

Rolling Back the Regs

Families Behind Bars

U.S. immigration policy is putting kids in jail

Kiko Martinez: Watch Listed for Life

Immigrants Sue to Retrieve Funds Seized in Arizona

Immigrants sue to retrieve fudns seized by Arizona state government.

An Activist Left Behind

Female union members are gaining clout, but are still shut out of top labor positions

The Ousting of Obrador

Project Kesher: Creating Connections

Migrant Pickers Expose Slavery Rings

Shedding light on a cycle of abuse

The Disappeared

In Juárez’s maquiladoras, murders of women continue

Home Care Hardship

SEIU lobbies for raises in Illinois

Murder in Chiapas

Low-intensity conflict continues

Plan Colombia, globalization stir unrest in Ecuador.

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