The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor
20 Years On, What the UPS Strike Can Teach Us About Reviving a Dying Labor Movement
Joe Allen

Feature
The Big Banks and Corporations Financing Trump’s Deportation Machine
Activists are taking aim at corporations like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo for their complicity in the administration’s mass deportation agenda.
Sarah Jaffe

Feature
Transgender People Are Not a ‘Burden’: The Massive Military Budget Is
Instead of looking to the U.S. military to preserve our rights, we should be dismantling it.
Tamara Nassar and Jake Valente

Labor
The UAW Vote in Mississippi is a Battle for the Soul of the U.S. Labor Movement
David Moberg

Rural America
Transnational Corporations, Factory Farms and the Economic Colonization of Rural America
John Ikerd

Labor
Organizers Say Quaint Baltimore Seafood Business Masks Shocking Labor Abuses
Bruce Vail
Video
Trump Is Stacking The National Labor Relations Board to Favor Corporations
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor
It’s Not Just Class: The Fight for Racial Justice Is Inseparable from Overcoming Capitalism
David Roediger

Feature
An Inside Account of How Direct Action Helped Kill the GOP Healthcare Bill
Mari Cordes is a nurse, organizer and House candidate who was arrested multiple times in Washington, D.C. protesting the GOP's Obamacare repeal bill.
Sarah Jaffe

Rural America
Nutrient Runoff is Killing American Waters and Voluntary Actions Aren’t Working
Donald Scavia

Feature
In Guam, the Gravest Threat Isn’t North Korea—It’s the United States
The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.
Leilani Ganser

Feature
Millennials Are Killing the Oil Industry
Hell yeah we are.
Kate Aronoff

Labor
Black Women Have to Work 7 Months Longer Than White Men to Receive the Same Pay
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is a day to demand an end to the racial and gender pay gap that has led to Black women workers being paid just 67 cents on the dollar relative to white men.
Economic Policy Institute

Dispatch
The Link Between Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants and Deaths in the Desert
Trump's policies reduce people first to “illegals,” then to deportation statistics, and, finally, to a scattering of bones in an arroyo.
John Washington

Feature
Child Soldier in the War on Terror: The Limits of Justice for One Guantanamo Bay Survivor
The abuse of Omar Khadr shows that Islamophobia drives the War on Terror.
Maha Hilal

Dispatch
Disabled and Disobedient: How ADAPT Activists Blocked the GOP Healthcare Bill
This wasn't their first day at the rodeo.
s.e. smith

Labor
One Taxi Driver’s Story of Trying to Survive in the Age of Uber
Stephen Franklin

Labor
We Shouldn’t Trust Tech Industry Billionaires to Lead the Way on Immigrants’ Rights
Julianne Tveten
