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Labor
Rail Crew Drivers: Working Sick and Sick of Waiting
Kari Lydersen
Weekly Mulch: Why the Senate Climate Bill is Doomed
Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

Dispatch
This Land Is Our Land
Nativists in Arizona jump-start the immigration reform movement.
Micah Uetricht

Feature
The New Face of SEIU
Mary Kay Henry takes the helm of America’s second-biggest union, as Andy Stern departs.
David Moberg

Labor
Government Workers: Leeches on Public Purse or Underpaid and Underappreciated?
David Moberg
The Yes Men’s ‘Yes Lab’: Cooking up Creative Activism
Marie Landau

Labor
What Sank the Deepwater Horizon?
Lindsay Beyerstein

Labor
Commencement Speakers’ Boycott Gains Traction at University of Calif. Campuses
Rose Arrieta
Video
The Hotel Boycott Flashmob Band
Jeremy Gantz
Welcome to Christwire.org, Where Liberals Are Ruining the World
Sara Peck
Weekly Diaspora: More Hypocrisy in Arizona
Erin Rosa, Media Consortium blogger
Labor
Jobs Creation, R.I.P.: Congress, Obama Ignore 11 Million Jobless
Art Levine
Viewpoint
Elena Kagan is No Thurgood Marshall
Dom Apollon

Labor
Strike! Why Mothballing Labor’s Key Weapon is Wrong
Joe Burns
Immigrant Youth Justice League Aims to ‘Escalate the Movement’
Marie Landau

Labor
Changing Suburbia: Leaving Cities, Working Poor and Unemployed Find New Isolation
Akito Yoshikane
Weekly Pulse: SCOTUS Nominee Kagan a Cipher on Choice
Lindsay Beyerstein

Culture
Studs Terkel: 96 Years in 40 Minutes
Eric Simonson's new film portrait of the ubiquitous journalist and author comes up short on complexity.
Dan Dineen
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.