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A "Sustainable Square Mile" Tests the Power of Biden's Billions for Climate Justice
Can $3 billion in hyperlocal funding for environmental justice create lasting change?
Adam Mahoney
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As All Eyes Are on Chicago This Week, Don't Forget What This City is About
A pivotal teachers’ strike, decades of movement building, and a surprising mayoral victory: Chicago organizers built a mass movement that has transformed the city. A roundtable with Alex Han, Katelyn Johnson, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Jesse Sharkey, Tania Unzueta and J. Patrick Patterson.
J. Patrick Patterson
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How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago
From Dearborn to Benton Harbor, working people in the Great Lakes State are building progressive power. One of the efforts that emerged transformed into the Uncommitted national movement.
Eman Abdelhadi
LaborFeature
The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It
“We can win more together than we can on our own.”
Sarah Jaffe
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875,000 Veterans, $382 Million in Medical Debt
When you’re 72 years old, disabled and a $108,094 notice lands in your mailbox—along with the number for a veterans suicide hotline.
Rory Fanning
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Who Would Want to Grow Old Only to Grow Poor?
Seniors are increasingly in debt and facing financial crises at levels not seen since the Great Depression. The mass movement that fought for seniors 100 years ago under the banner of the Townsend Plan could be a model for solving the growing crisis now.
Eleni Schirmer
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"You Are Not A Loan!" Introducing the Nation's First Debtors' Union
Debtors’ unions, in solidarity with labor unions and tenants unions, are the organizing formations we need to dismantle genocidal racial capitalism.
Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor
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The Future of Housing Organizing: Tenant Unions
The only answer to our housing crises is collective action. A growing movement of tenant unions promises a new front in the struggle for our homes.
Rose Lenehan and Tara Raghuveer
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What Is the World We Are Imagining Beyond Debt?
A special roundtable on debt abolition and racial capitalism—and how we can organize for a future beyond accumulation. Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Alex Han, Robin G. Kelley, René Moya and Derecka Purnell.
Jalil Mustaffa Bishop
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The Library Is a Commons
A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.
Emily Drabinski
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The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning
At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.
Adam Federman
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The Fight to Bring Chicago Home Isn’t Over
A majority of residents didn’t back the measure to fund housing services by taxing the rich—but organizers are already preparing for the next round.
Kari Lydersen
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Hindu Nationalists Are Taking Notes—and Tech Support—From the Israeli Right
The state of Assam has become a laboratory of ethnonationalism, with warning signs of genocide ahead.
Ankur Singh
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Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
No parole if you’re still profitable.
Kim Kelly
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The War on Protest Is Here
Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.
Adam Federman
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Two Years In, These “Progressive” Companies Still Haven’t Negotiated First Union Contracts
The union wave at big U.S. retailers hasn’t yet resulted in first contracts for workers at Trader Joe’s, Starbucks and REI. But unions are proving their value in other ways.
Jeremy Gantz
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Can Grocery Workers Take Back Their Union?
Faye Guenther’s multiyear plan to revolutionize the grocery workers union.
Hamilton Nolan
LaborFeatureEn Español
Una Semana Laboral De 32 Horas Es Nuestra Para Tomarla
La lucha por jornadas laborales más cortas puede unir a los trabajadores.
Sarah Jaffe
LaborFeature
A 32-Hour Workweek Is Ours for the Taking
The fight for shorter hours can unify workers everywhere.
Sarah Jaffe
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Unequal Before the Law
Native Americans serve astoundingly longer prison sentences—because they are Native.
Stephanie Woodard
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El sistema de bienestar infantil pone a los niños en riesgo. ¿Es hora de abolirlo?
Durante décadas, los reformadores han intentado arreglar nuestro fallido sistema de servicios de protección infantil. ¿Abolirlo es una idea cuyo momento ha llegado?
Roxanna Asgarian
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Public Ownership of Housing Could Be Closer Than You Think
Forget private developers—cities and states could just build their own housing to solve the crisis. In New York, now there’s a bill to do it.
Mindy Isser
FeaturePalestine
“From the River to the Sea”: Palestinians Resist Erasure
Why many insist on using the phrase.
Maha Nassar
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Losers, Quitters and the Only One Who Wins
Did the Republican primaries even matter?
Garret Keizer
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