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This Chicago Nightclub is Reimagining Safety Through Community Care

"What's a bigger liability? People using substances … or somebody dying from an overdose in your bathroom when you could have had something to prevent that overdose?”

Sonal Soni

DispatchClimate

Pollution is Displacing Black Midwesterners. White Homeowners are Profiting.

Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country's 38 other states.

Adam Mahoney

PalestineDispatch

The Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History Was "A Turning Point." Now It's Spreading.

"Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”

Henry Hicks IV

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Disabled People Are Underrepresented in Politics. A New Organization Aims to Change That.

Disability Victory will start training the first cohort of disabled people who want to run for office in early 2024.

Sara Luterman, The 19th

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Ohio Votes To Guarantee Abortion Rights in Its State Constitution

With the victory on Issue 1, abortion rights advocates are on a 7-and-0 ballot measure winning streak since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Grace Panetta, The 19th

DispatchRural America

Don't Pave Paradise

A West Virginia community rallied to stave off the destruction of Cacapon Resort State Park by private developers. Will it last?

Ellie Heffernan

DispatchRural America

In Small Town Appalachia, Locals Battle a Weapons-Grade Uranium Plant

The company Nuclear Fuel Services wants to process weapons-grade uranium for the U.S. government at a facility in Erwin, Tennessee. Some locals aren’t having it.

Taylor Sisk

Dispatch

How San Diego Built a Surveillance Apparatus Under the Guise of “Sustainability”

What started as a green infrastructure project quickly spiraled into a crisis of mass surveillance.

Jesse Marx

LaborDispatch

Record Profits, Paltry Contracts Fire Up Chicago-Area Autoworkers to Strike

"It's not fair that [CEOs are] bringing home these millions of dollars and have so many summer homes ... and we're living paycheck to paycheck."

Maia McDonald

DispatchThe Socialism Issue

Christian Socialists Are Reclaiming Faith from the Right

For these Christians, religion is no opiate—it’s a profound call to action.

Matt McManus

Dispatch

On Chicago's Northwest Side, Socialists Are Wielding Power in a Whole New Way

For city council members Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, "co-governance" is key.

Jacqui Germain

LaborDispatchThe Socialism Issue

Democratic Socialists Are Fueling a Hot Labor Summer

From strike support to training organizers and supporting union drives, DSA members are helping to build a fighting labor movement.

Indigo Olivier

DispatchClimate

How A Utility Giant Tried (and Failed) to Build a Pipeline Under Brooklyn

Brooklyn residents didn't learn about the new pipeline project from National Grid until two years into its construction. They were able to stop it anyways.

Sara Van Horn

Dispatch

Full Spectrum Overdose Prevention

A game-changing program to mitigate the fentanyl crisis.

Paige Oamek

DispatchRural America

Big Dairy is Milking California Dry

A small town fights back against dairy expansion.

Ian Whitaker

Dispatch

The Peasants Are Seizing the Commons (Again)

Protesters stormed a U.K. national park, demanding the freedom to camp anywhere on public land.

Charlotte Elton

DispatchClimate

Colombian Peasants Are Taking on an Irish Multinational— and Being Met With Violence

Indigenous leaders protesting cardboard packaging giant Smurfit Kappa Group face threats and retaliation.

Tomás Ó’Loingsigh

LaborDispatch

An Explosion, Layoffs, and the End of Paper in Jay

When the Androscoggin Mill closed last month, it ended 130 years of paper making in this small, tight-knit town.

Jacob Morrison

Dispatch

Bengaluru’s Sanitation Workers Say No to the System’s Scraps

If the city’s ragpickers and pourakarmikas stopped working for even a day, Bengaluru would plunge into disease and chaos.

Srikar Raghavan

LaborDispatch

France’s Pension Protests Are a Feminist Reckoning

As France heads into its eleventh general strike in three months, one thing is clear: this is not just a retirees' uprising.

Nina Pasquini

Dispatch

Meet the Activist Coalition That Outlawed Caste Discrimination in Seattle

“This is a recognition of over 2,000 years of oppression."

Saurav Sarkar

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Black Educators Are Reimagining A Better School System

“Black Lives Matter at School is an act of resistance. It’s a refusal to accept the ways that we are perpetually dehumanized. It’s a statement that we exist, that we are here, and that we are going to fight back.”

Henry Hicks IV

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The Plot to Cancel Drag Queens

Drag Shows under attack by far-right groups.

Eesha Pandit

DispatchCulture

Slaying the Gold-Hungry Dragon

D&D players won an epic victory against corporate power. Here’s how they did it.

Rohan Montgomery