The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Viewpoint
All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just “Essential Workers”
The pandemic has made clear that we need to provide citizenship for all immigrants, and safe working conditions for all workers.
Shannon Gleeson and Sofya Aptekar
Feature
Nationalize the Pharmaceutical Industry Now
The status quo will kill us.
Hadas Thier
Labor
Foreign Farm Workers Already Face Abusive Conditions. Now Trump Wants to Cut Their Wages.
Maurizio Guerrero
Viewpoint
There Is No Plan (For You)
Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn't care.
Hamilton Nolan
Culture
In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.
The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to "pay for itself."
Rebecca Burns
Rural America
‘We Get There First or White Supremacists Do’: How These Rural Canvassers Disrupt Racist Narratives
Jordan Green
Viewpoint
“Blue Lives Matter” Comes to Brooklyn, and Everyone Screams
In Bay Ridge, pro-police demonstrators were met with the righteous anger of Black Lives Matter.
Hamilton Nolan
Feature
The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left
A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and '40s.
Sarah Lazare
Labor
The Parent Trap
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Feature
Barr’s New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters
By embracing preventive policing, the task force aims to eliminate the threat of dissent.
Chip Gibbons
Labor
The Powerful Movement To Micromanage and Defund Public Schools Has Been Awfully Quiet About Police
Shaun Richman
Viewpoint
What’s Missing From the Biden-Bernie Task Force Plan? Medicare for All.
The recommendations are an improvement on Biden's previous healthcare plans, but a public option won't cut it. We need free, universal coverage.
Natalie Shure
Feature
The People Who Will Draft the Democratic Platform Have a Conflict of Interest Problem
Next up after the Biden-Sanders task forces? The Democratic platform drafting committee—and progressives have their work cut out for them.
Branko Marcetic
Labor
The Public Sector’s Right to Strike Is Left Behind in Biden-Bernie Task Force Compromise
Hamilton Nolan
Labor
Organizing Against Police Unions Has Invigorated Hollywood’s Labor Movement, Members Say
Alice Herman
Rural America
Black People Own Less of the U.S. than 100 Years Ago. A ‘Black Commons’ Could Help Reverse the Trend
Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone
Labor
The Future of Homeless Organizing Lives on the Prettiest Street in Philadelphia
Hamilton Nolan
Viewpoint
How the Trump Administration’s Small Business Protection Program Has Failed Communities of Color
The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated businesses run by people of color. The Trump administration's Small Business Administration isn’t helping.
Miranda Litwak
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