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NYC's Delivery Drivers Want Employee Status, and Nothing Less

App-based workers have struggled to secure stronger labor protections. A new state bill could set them back years.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborDispatch

When These Workers Unionized, Their Cafe Was Put Up for Sale—So They Bought It

In 10 months, baristas at White Electric, a coffee shop in Providence, went from unionizing their workplace to starting one of only a few dozen worker-owned cafes in the country.

Harry August

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We're Living With the Consequences of Rich Nations' Vaccine Hoarding

The Biden administration has finally backed a patent waiver for Covid vaccines, but it's already too late for Argentina and countless countries across the Global South.

Jacob Sugarman

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"It's a Nightmare": Inside America's Rural Housing Crisis

Across Wisconsin, low-income people are struggling to find quality, affordable housing.

Jack Kelly

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How Police "Gang Databases" Are Being Used to Wage War on Immigrants

Wearing a certain colored hat or sporting the wrong tattoo can be enough to get somebody in the system—and eventually deported.

Maurizio Guerrero

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In Rochester, A Police Alternative Delivers ... Police

Activists were excited about the launch of a new Person in Crisis team in a city that's suffered a string of police violence incidents—but so far, it's fallen short on its promises.

Sam Mellins

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Nina Turner Hopes to Move Ohio Left

The "daughter of Cleveland" and former Bernie Sanders surrogate is running for Congress on a platform that includes a $15 minimum wage, recurring stimulus checks and free public college.

Nuala Bishari

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The UK's Vaccine Rollout Is the Latest Reminder We Need Universal Healthcare

Britain's vaccination rate has far outpaced the rest of the West. The triumph belongs to its National Health Service.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata

LaborDispatch

New Hampshire Republicans Are Using Covid to Ram Through Right-to-Work Legislation

Lawmakers in the state have blocked the legislation for years, but a radicalized GOP appears bent on pushing it through.

C.M. Lewis

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Migrant Detainees Find Little Relief Under Biden

Despite a change in rhetoric, deportations of migrants continue under President Biden.

Maurizio Guerrero

LaborDispatch

The Young Socialists' School-to-Union Pipeline

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America are embracing the "rank and file strategy."

Indigo Olivier

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Indigenous Water Protectors Face Off Against the “Pandemic Pipeline”

Biden halted Keystone XL, but Enbridge’s Line 3 would pipe the same tar sands oil into the U.S. and across Anishinaabe treaty lands.

Clara Liang

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Going Hungry in the Most Magical Place on Earth

Disney World's union workers, running out of federal aid, are banding together to keep each other afloat.

Hamilton Nolan

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The Trump Administration's Cruelty Haunts Our Virtual Immigration Courts

How “judicial black sites” have come to shape our immigration system.

Arvind Dilawar

LaborDispatch

Here's Why the People Who Pick Our Food Are Going Hungry During Covid

Historic discrimination has left farmworkers with fewer protections than other workers, a practice known as agricultural exceptionalism.

Allison Salerno

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Protesters at Biden Philly HQ Demand Student Debt Relief on Day One

"Biden owes this city," say Philadelphia activists

Mindy Isser

LaborDispatch

Workers Resist Pandemic-Era Disaster Capitalism in Ecuador

The Ecuador government took advantage of the pandemic to slash workers’ rights.

Kimberley Brown

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From Student Debtor to Soldier

How the student loan debt crisis forces low-income students of color into the military.

Anna Attie

LaborDispatch

With Gigs Canceled and No Relief, Musicians Form a Nationwide Union

This is what solidarity sounds like.

Liz Pelly

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Why the South Is Organizing Its Own Green New Deal

Amid devastating hurricanes, oil spills and refinery fires, the Gulf South pushes for a Green New Deal that will meet its needs.

Casey Williams

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The Climate Movement’s Reckoning with Black Lives Matter

For far too long, the climate movement has ignored the needs of the people most impacted by the climate crisis. That's changing.

Camille Williams

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The MAGA Army Tries to Drag America to Hell

Dear Leader Trump's toy soldiers make one last stand on the streets of Washington, DC

Hamilton Nolan

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The Great American Election Catharsis Party

In Philly, MAGA dreams meet mathematical realities.

Hamilton Nolan

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"Someone Needs to Listen to Us": Why African Asylum Seekers Went On Hunger Strike

Inside a protest against racism at a Louisiana immigrant detention center.

Katie Jane Fernelius