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Alabama Prison Work Strike ‘Stalls’ But Wins Support from Wobblies

George Lavender

Feature

Scathing Report Finds School Privatization Hurts Poor Kids

Rocketship, a fast-growing chain of charters, is serving low-budget, stripped-down schooling.

Ruth Conniff

Labor

Despite Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization

Kari Lydersen

RIO DE JANEIRO

Rachel K. Dooley

Labor

EXCLUSIVE: Rock, Roll ‘n Wage Raises: Guitar Center Announces Pay Hike Following Employee Organizing

Spencer Woodman

Comics

RIP Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Eric Garcia

Feature

A Victory for New Mexico’s Chileros

Farmers must pay chile pickers 25 cents more per hour, state says.

Joseph Sorrentino

Feature

Think Globally, Act Tribally

A UN declaration provides the framework for Native self-determination

Walter R. Echo-Hawk

Doctors Question Medical Diagnosis Used in Thousands of Criminal Cases

George Lavender

Comics

Cliven Bundy’s Logic

Jeff Danziger

Video

Sea-Tac Airport Workers Use Film Competition to Demand Union

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Fast-Food CEOs Pocket $660 Million in ‘Performance Pay’

Sarah Berlin

Dispatch

Village Of The Dammed

In Panama, the Ngäbe-Buglé fight to save their river and their land.

Lawrence Reichard

Prisoners in Texas Dying from Extreme Heat

George Lavender

Feature

Why the GOP Really Fears Minimum-Wage Hikes

It comes down to a deep disrespect for the workers who make the country run.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

Comics

Portland’s Pee Problem

Matt Bors

Kentucky Prison Doctor Fired After Hunger Striking Prisoner Starves to Death

George Lavender

Feature

Sipping Lattes on the Edge of a Volcano

What do Palestinians, human rights workers, progressive Israelis and Israeli settlers have to say about daily life in an occupied land?

Marilyn Katz