The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism
The refugees won't all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist.
Slavoj Žižek
Dispatch
The City of Detroit Withheld Water From 40,000 People–So Activists Tapped the Mayor’s Mansion
The action was a bid to draw attention to what the UN has called a violation of human rights
Lauren Gaynor
Labor
Seattle Teachers Go On Strike, Say It’s “About Caring For What’s Right for Our Kids”
Mario Vasquez
Culture
‘Welcome to Leith’ Charts A White Supremacist Attempt to Take Over a Tiny North Dakota Town
A new documentary by Michael Nichols and Christopher Walker explores a firefight between American individualism and the public good
Michael Atkinson
Feature
English-Only To the Core
What the Common Core means for emergent bilingual youth
Jeff Bale
Feature
How Common Core Hurts English Language Learners
Teachers say the new standards exacerbate the disconnect between policy and practice.
Jose Luis Vilson
Comics
And Out Come the Wolves
Eric Garcia
Labor
The Six-State Steelworker Fight Back Against Corporate Lockouts and Exploitation
Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President
Labor
WashPost’s Support of Trans-Pacific Partnership Is In Line with a Tradition of Contempt for Workers
Dean Baker
Rural America
From Quebec to Wisconsin: Walking for Water
John Collins
Labor
Just in Time for Labor Day, NLRB Rules in Favor of Hooters Workers
Bruce Vail
Feature
Silicon Valley’s Labor Uprising
Unions are spreading like wildfire through tech's low-wage workforce
s.e. smith
Viewpoint
Joe Biden’s Bankruptcy Bill Could Complicate His Presidential Run
Elizabeth Warren has called out the current Vice President in the past.
David Sirota
Labor
The Fight for 15 Is Creating a Fighting Labor Movement for the 21st Century
Derek Seidman
Labor
More Bad News for A&P Supermarket Workers as Judge OKs Assaults on Union Contracts
Bruce Vail
Labor
With Dem. Defections, Billionaire IL Gov. Bruce Rauner Wins Key Vote Against Unionized State Workers
David Moberg
Labor
Pittsburgh Company Craigslist Post: Looking for Scabs to Work 84 Hours/Wk. During Lockout
Zaid Jilani, Alternet
Labor
UE Becomes First National Union in U.S. To Endorse BDS Against Israel
Mario Vasquez
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