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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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Dispatch
Keystone by the Bay
Labor and environmental groups clash in Maryland over fracking.
Rebecca Burns
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Labor
UIC Faculty Rekindle Fight for Public Education With Historic Strike
Rebecca Burns
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Dispatch
The Unbearable Whiteness of Legalization
Who benefits from marijuana law reform?
Rebecca Burns
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Dispatch
The ‘Sharing’ Hype
Do companies like Lyft and Airbnb help democratize the economy?
Rebecca Burns
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Feature
The Adjunct’s Lament
Even in the ivory tower, work is often solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Rebecca Burns
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Labor
UIC Faculty Union Flexes Muscles in Showdown Over Adjunct Pay
Rebecca Burns
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Dispatch
The Problem with ‘Brogrammers’
Why is Silicon Valley so stubbornly white and male?
Rebecca Burns
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Labor
UC Berkeley Professor Sends Heartfelt Anti-Union E-mail To Students on Eve of Strike
Rebecca Burns
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Feature
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
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Dispatch
Schoolyard Syndicalists
From the Chicago public school closings, some students emerge radicalized.
Rebecca Burns
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Labor
Could Grad Students Regain Union Rights? Some Hopeful Signs
Rebecca Burns
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Labor
A Free-Speech Victory at the ‘University of Nike’
Rebecca Burns
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Feature
A Company Town Becomes Our Town
How a town shadowed by Chevron built a vibrant movement to challenge corporate power.
Rebecca Burns
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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
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Dispatch
The Devil’s in the Details
If the Senate's bill is so good, why are immigrant rights groups so unhappy?
Rebecca Burns
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Indebted Students Expose ALEC’s Assault on Higher Education
Rebecca Burns
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Feature
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
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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
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Dispatch
A Fracktious Debate
Greens are divided on whether to regulate fracking or hold out for a ban.
Rebecca Burns
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Dispatch
Food Fight: Feminists and Femivores
Is slow food about politics, privilege, or oppression?
Rebecca Burns
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Photojournalists Fight Replacement by iPhones
Rebecca Burns
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Dispatch
Mad Professors
The adjuncts are at the barricades.
Rebecca Burns
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Feature
Out of the Pen and Unrepentant
Environmentalist Tim DeChristopher on the future of climate activism.
Rebecca Burns
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Dispatch
Where Unions Went Wrong on ‘Right to Work’
Labor activists retool their tactics against the bosses.
Rebecca Burns
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Feature
It’s Not Easy Being Blue and Green
Labor and environmentalists face off over the Keystone XL pipeline.
Rebecca Burns
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How Chicago Workers Went From Occupation to Cooperative
Rebecca Burns
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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
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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
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Feature
Domestic Insurgents
In organizing domestic workers, a feat once thought impossible, Ai-jen Poo has transformed the labor movement.
Rebecca Burns
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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
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Pencils Down: Faced With Mass Closings, Chicago School Activists Mull a Testing Revolt
Rebecca Burns
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Dispatch
Shot, Then Shut Out
Chicago's most crime-ridden neighborhoods have no access to trauma care.
Rebecca Burns
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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
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Dispatch
The Frontlines of Feminism
Is the end of the combat exclusion rule a win for all women?
Rebecca Burns
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Winning the Whale Wars
Rebecca Burns
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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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Feature
Supermax Showdown
AFSCME wants Illinois' Tamms Correctional Center to stay open. Activists want it closed.
Rebecca Burns
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Feature
The War on Trafficking
Will California's crackdown do more harm than good?
Rebecca Burns
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One Month into Hunger Strike, Injured Colombian Worker Says He Won’t Stop Until GM Negotiates
Rebecca Burns
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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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Feature
You Are Not A Loan
Is a debt strike the future of Occupy?
Rebecca Burns
Marriage Equality, DREAM Movements Win Big at the Ballot Box
Rebecca Burns
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Election Day Live Updates
Rebecca Burns
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Monsanto’s Millions Turn the Tide Against GMO Labeling Effort
Rebecca Burns
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As Canadians Protest Tar Sands, Texas Tree Blockaders Get the Run-Around from TransCanada
Rebecca Burns