 
  
          Brooke Anderson is an Oakland, California-based organizer and photojournalist. She has spent 20 years building movements for social, economic, racial and ecological justice. She is a proud union member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, CWA 39521, AFL-CIO.
 
  
      
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        Jen Angel Wanted to Abolish Police and Prisons. She Wouldn’t Want Her Death to Be Used to Incarcerate Anyone.
      
                                
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          Labor                  
            
        Indigenous Farmworkers Can Show How to Heal Our Burning Planet
      
                    Grape harvesters share traditional ecological knowledge to right our relationship with the land—and each other.
                          
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        “Today Is About Defending Democracy”: People Take to the Streets to Stop Trump's Attempted Coup
      
                    Oakland protesters say now is an important time to defend the election—and resist Trump’s efforts to undermine the vote.
                          
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        Union Teachers Are Donating Their Stimulus Checks to the Undocumented
      
                    Undocumented workers are excluded from unemployment protections and stimulus checks, but not from union solidarity.
                          
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          Dispatch                  
            
        How Disabled Activists Are Fighting Isolation, Collectively
      
                    In the Bay Area, mutual aid projects are helping build community in a time of social distancing.
                          
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        Hundreds of Thousands Are Without Power Thanks to PG&E. This Shows Why We Need Public Ownership.
      
                    The utility giant's mass blackouts in California are just the tip of the iceberg.
                          
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        “UC for the Many, Not the Few”: Solidarity on the California Picket Lines, In Photos
      
                    Thanks to thousands of solidarity strikers, this was the largest strike of 2019.
                          
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          Labor                  
            
        “Out Here Because I Love Teaching”: The Oakland Teachers Strike, In Photos
      
                                
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          Labor                  
            
        The Other Victims of California’s Fires: Workers Inhaling Toxic Fumes
      
                                
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          Labor                  
            
        Defending Undocumented Nannies, House Cleaners and Caregivers in Trump’s America
      
                                
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          Labor                  
            
        Meet the L.A. Household Worker Taking On the Toxic Cleaning Industry
      
                                
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        This Father’s Day, Recognizing the Dads Who Are Left Out, Locked Up and Fighting for Their Families
      
                    For dads in the crosshairs of systemic oppression, the work of parenting often goes underappreciated.
                          
                      Brooke Anderson