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

Dispatch

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

Dispatch

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

LaborDispatch

Game Workers Are About To Take On The Biggest Boss Fight Of All

Long hours, stagnant wages: a look at the landslide of union interest across the industry.

Stephen Franklin

DispatchClimate

A Pipeline Brings Gas and Revolt to Southern Italy

“We thought nothing like this could happen in Italy until we found ourselves right in the middle of it.”

Alessandra Bergamin

LaborDispatch

Fighting Anti-Abortion Extremists — And The Boss

Workers fighting to unionize and protect reproductive rights face the threat of retaliation.

Stephen Franklin

LaborDispatch

In California, Independent Truckers Face Uncertain Future

A California law making it harder for trucking companies to classify drivers as independent contractors is now in effect—with big implications for truckers at America’s largest ports.

Stephen Franklin

LaborDispatch

Off the Pole, Onto the Picket Line: Why North Hollywood Strippers Are Unionizing

After nine months on strike, California strippers are poised to make Star Garden the country’s only unionized strip club

Emily Janakiram

LaborDispatch

UAW Reformers Win a Historic Victory. What Comes Next?

"Get ready to negotiate with a UAW where the membership is back in charge."

Jane Slaughter

LaborDispatch

Britain May Be Headed Toward a "De Facto General Strike"

Unions representing British postal, rail, education and communication workers are rediscovering the workplace as a battleground.

Marcus Barnett

DispatchClimateRural America

Will Lithium Mining Turn California's Salton Sea into a Green Energy Sacrifice Zone?

Once a tourist destination, the Salton Sea faces ecological collapse, toxic dust storms—and maybe a lithium boom.

Paige Oamek

Dispatch

The Protest Camp Where Houseless Activists Fight Luxury High Rises

Houseless protesters in Chicago occupied a parking lot and then set up a long-term camp to fight gentrification—with the support of the neighborhood.

Hana Urban

Dispatch

Kentucky Is Latest to Test Whether Red States Will Keep Voting for Abortion Rights

An anti-abortion constitutional amendment identical to one Kansas voters rejected this summer is on Kentucky’s November ballot.

Shefali Luthra, The 19th

LaborDispatch

Intelligentsia Workers Vote to Unionize, Fueling the Fire of Coffee Industry Organizing

Workers at the coffee chain have joined fellow baristas at Starbucks and Colectivo in unionizing their workplaces.

Jeff Schuhrke

DispatchRural America

How a Small Town in Maine Stopped a Silver Mine

A Canadian company planned to mine silver nearby, so town residents used Maine's “home rule” powers to ban industrial mining and protect their water.

Julia Conley

LaborDispatch

Starbucks Holds Life-Saving Benefits Over Trans Workers' Heads

Managers are wielding a new weapon against unions: gender-affirming healthcare

Zane McNeill

FeatureDispatch

Could Colombia Show Us a Way Out of Our Political Nightmare?

The recent election in Colombia has produced new hope for the country—and for the whole region.

John Feffer

DispatchRural America

Trailer Park Residents Take on Venture Capitalists—and Win

As gentrification sweeps the West, investors are buying up mobile home parks. Residents of this Colorado park got together and bought it themselves.

Joseph Bullington