Rebecca Burns is an In These Times contributing editor and award-winning investigative reporter. Her work has appeared in Bloomberg, the Chicago Reader, ProPublica, The Intercept, and USA Today. Follow her on Twitter @rejburns.
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Eviction by ‘Rent-a-Cop’
An Illinois bill could 'privatize' evictions and pave the way for Wall Street abuses.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Pittsburgh’s Nonprofit Pirates
A hospital behemoth dominates the city, pays no taxes and does little for its lowest-paid workers.
Rebecca Burns
Labor
Kaplan Teachers Win Contract, Proving For-Profit Ed Can Be Unionized
Rebecca Burns
Labor
More Than 20 Striking Students Arrested, Belying University of California’s Era of ‘Labor Peace’
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Keystone by the Bay
Labor and environmental groups clash in Maryland over fracking.
Rebecca Burns
Labor
UIC Faculty Rekindle Fight for Public Education With Historic Strike
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
The Unbearable Whiteness of Legalization
Who benefits from marijuana law reform?
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
The ‘Sharing’ Hype
Do companies like Lyft and Airbnb help democratize the economy?
Rebecca Burns
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The Adjunct’s Lament
Even in the ivory tower, work is often solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Rebecca Burns
Labor
UIC Faculty Union Flexes Muscles in Showdown Over Adjunct Pay
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
The Problem with ‘Brogrammers’
Why is Silicon Valley so stubbornly white and male?
Rebecca Burns
Labor
UC Berkeley Professor Sends Heartfelt Anti-Union E-mail To Students on Eve of Strike
Rebecca Burns
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A ‘Historic Moment’ for Campus Solidarity
University of California grad students will join service workers on the picket lines in a rare sympathy strike.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Schoolyard Syndicalists
From the Chicago public school closings, some students emerge radicalized.
Rebecca Burns
Labor
Could Grad Students Regain Union Rights? Some Hopeful Signs
Rebecca Burns
Labor
A Free-Speech Victory at the ‘University of Nike’
Rebecca Burns
Feature
A Company Town Becomes Our Town
How a town shadowed by Chevron built a vibrant movement to challenge corporate power.
Rebecca Burns
Feature
University Tries to Nip Professors’ Union in the Bud
A cautionary letter--and the rumored retention of a notorious union-buster--show Northeastern is nervous about adjunct faculty organizing.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
The Devil’s in the Details
If the Senate's bill is so good, why are immigrant rights groups so unhappy?
Rebecca Burns
Indebted Students Expose ALEC’s Assault on Higher Education
Rebecca Burns
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Undocumented Immigrants Win Access to Organ Transplant Waitlists, and a Shot at Life
14 Chicago patients in critical need of transplants went on a hunger strike to change hospital policy.
Rebecca Burns
Feature
Is Higher Ed the Next Target of Corporate ‘Reformers’?
The proposed shuttering of City College of San Francisco bears unsettling parallels to K-12 school closings.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
A Fracktious Debate
Greens are divided on whether to regulate fracking or hold out for a ban.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Food Fight: Feminists and Femivores
Is slow food about politics, privilege, or oppression?
Rebecca Burns
Photojournalists Fight Replacement by iPhones
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Mad Professors
The adjuncts are at the barricades.
Rebecca Burns
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Out of the Pen and Unrepentant
Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher on the future of climate activism.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Where Unions Went Wrong on ‘Right to Work’
Labor activists retool their tactics against the bosses.
Rebecca Burns
Feature
It’s Not Easy Being Blue and Green
Labor and environmentalists face off over the Keystone XL pipeline.
Rebecca Burns
How Chicago Workers Went From Occupation to Cooperative
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Can Co-ops Save Unions?
Labor-cooperative partnerships may herald a new strategy for labor--if they can get off the ground.
Rebecca Burns
Indiana University On Strike Against Tuition Hikes
Rebecca Burns
1 in 3 Foreclosures Were Triggered by Bank Error
Rebecca Burns
Newark Students Walk Out Over School Closings: Is a Bigger Fightback on the Way?
Rebecca Burns
Feature
Domestic Insurgents
In organizing domestic workers, a feat once thought impossible, Ai-jen Poo has transformed the labor movement.
Rebecca Burns
Feature
Is Life Without Parole Any Better Than the Death Penalty?
Maryland is poised to be the 18th state to abolish capital punishment, in favor of lifetime imprisonment.
Rebecca Burns
Pencils Down: Faced With Mass Closings, Chicago School Activists Mull a Testing Revolt
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Shot, Then Shut Out
Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods have no access to trauma care.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
VAWA: A Victory for Women—But Which Women?
Advocates cheer the renewal of Violence Against Women Act after a 500-day delay, but question its approach.
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
The Frontlines of Feminism
Is the end of the combat exclusion rule a win for all women?
Rebecca Burns
Winning the Whale Wars
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Prison Prep School
'Zero-tolerance' and 'tough-on-crime' policies put students in a school-to-prison pipeline.
Rebecca Burns
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Supermax Showdown
AFSCME wants Illinois' Tamms Correctional Center to stay open. Activists want it closed.
Rebecca Burns
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The War on Trafficking
Will California's crackdown do more harm than good?
Rebecca Burns
One Month into Hunger Strike, Injured Colombian Worker Says He Won’t Stop Until GM Negotiates
Rebecca Burns
Banking on Detention: Demonstrators Call on Wells Fargo to Divest from Private Prisons
Rebecca Burns
After Failed Death Penalty Repeal, California Could See Spate of Executions
Rebecca Burns
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You Are Not A Loan
Is a debt strike the future of Occupy?
Rebecca Burns
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