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After Getting Burned By Wall Street, California Fire Victims Fight To Reclaim Their Power

California utility company PG&E has settled, but many fire victims are still waiting to see their full payout.

Jordan Allyn

LaborDispatch

New York and California Experiment with Giving Workers a Say in Industry Standards

Less than 3 percent of fast food workers and less than 1 percent of nail salon workers are unionized. Workers' councils could give them a seat at the table.

Amy Qin

LaborDispatch

Speed Grocery Delivery Workers Are in a Dangerous Race

A new industry of venture-capital-backed startups claim their workers are fast. Are they faster than regulations?

Maggie Duffy

LaborDispatch

A Hotline Garment Workers Can Call When They Face Harassment on the Job

When women who sew clothes for famous brands are harassed, there is a new place for them to turn.

Ryan Lenora Brown

Dispatch

The Billionaire-Funded Campaign Trying to Recall SF's Progressive DA Chesa Boudin

A Republican billionaire is behind the effort to oust San Francisco's criminal justice reform-minded District Attorney.

Piper French

Dispatch

A Former Sundown Town Passed Reparations and Rent Control. Now It's Fighting to Keep Them.

Culver City’s first Black Mayor, Daniel Lee, wants to make California the bastion of progressive politics some imagine it to be.

Paige Oamek

LaborDispatch

Sanitation Workers Win Raise After Going on Strike—With Community Support

"This contract isn’t everything we believe we deserve, but it’s enough to go back to work and go back to taking care of our communities.”

James Stout

Dispatch

Mexico Has Become a "Roofless Prison" for Haitian Refugees—With Biden's Help

Thousands of migrants are trapped at the border as the United States and Mexico crack down on deportations—under Biden's policies, many will be expelled.

Chantal Flores

DispatchRural America

Farmers Reject Nicor's Pipe Dream

Residents of the historic Black farming community of Pembroke, Illinois want an energy upgrade—but they want renewables, not fossil fuels.

Zoe Pharo

Dispatch

Last Resort Abortion in a Rural Reproductive Rights Wasteland

“If abortion is taken away in Wisconsin completely, people will do much worse things.”

Sam Stroozas

Dispatch

An Ohio College Privatized Its Energy and Built a Gas Plant on Campus, Outraging Students

OSU announced in 2008 its goal to go carbon neutral by 2050. Now, however, the university is pursuing the construction of a new, gas-powered energy plant despite student protests holding them accountable.

Taylor Dorrell

Dispatch

These Three Candidates Worked Together to Bring "Sidewalk Socialism" to Their City Council

In spite of India Walton's loss in Buffalo, N.Y., Election Day 2021 still showed promise for socialism on the local level.

Rebecca Burns

FeatureDispatch

How Climate Change Turned This Moroccan Village Into a Ghost Town

A Moroccan journalist returns to the oasis community where he grew up—parts of which are now abandoned by the effects of climate change.

Khalid Bencherif

Dispatch

The Small Towns Rejecting Solar Farms

Residents are split over the largest solar farm in Wisconsin moving in next door

Hannah Faris

LaborDispatch

When Scabs Are a Danger to Public Health

United Metro Energy is risking an environmental catastrophe in Brooklyn as billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis stalls union negotiations.

Halsey Hazzard

Dispatch

Shahana Hanif, Socialist Feminist Organizer, Is About to Make History

From the start, the campaign worked to harness the power of an under-tapped activist community of Bangladeshi women—inspiring a new generation of organizers.

Ria Modak

Dispatch

The $250 Difference: A Lifeline for Working Families May Disappear this December

Most U.S. welfare programs are either targeted or means-tested — the Child Tax Credit breaks this mold.

Bryce Covert

Dispatch

An Upstream Paddle To Save the Salmon

As salmon swim toward extinction, northwest tribes and environmental activists continue a decades-long battle to restore the Snake River.

Christy Carley

LaborDispatch

Alabama Amazon Workers May Get Another Crack at a Union

The warehouse workers' fight enters its second round, just when everyone thought it was finished.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

A Lead Problem Worse Than Flint's

Hundreds of thousands of lead service lines in Wisconsin are a threat to public health, and communities of color are particularly vulnerable.

Susan Shain

Dispatch

Black Teachers Defend Their Curriculum From Attacks on Critical Race Theory

With school boards becoming a battleground in the right-wing war on critical race theory, Milwaukee educators are standing up against racist censorship of American history.

Alice Herman

Dispatch

Abolitionist Library Workers Want Library Access for All. That Begins with Getting Cops Out.

Library staff work to remove the need for police officers within libraries and focus on de-escalating training.

Jason Christian

Dispatch

Under Biden, Migrants Continue Fighting for the Right to Return to the U.S.

As family separations continue under the Biden administration, unjustly deported migrants are fighting to be reunited with their families.

Paco Alvarez

Dispatch

Social Work Students Decry SSA’s New Name After Crown Family Donation

When the military-industrial complex meets social work.

Maryum Elnasseh