The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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How Chicago Took a Major Step Toward Tackling the City's Housing Crisis

In a victory for Mayor Brandon Johnson's agenda, City Council members approved a referendum on the Bring Chicago Home ordinance that will ask voters if the city should enact a progressive real estate tax to confront homelessness.

Kari Lydersen

Exclusive: UAW President Shawn Fain on How the Auto Workers Won and What’s Next

Fain talks with Steven Greenhouse about a unified working class, new organizing, battery plants, Biden and Trump.

Steven Greenhouse and Shawn Fain

PalestineInterview

Democrats Cannot "Have Double Standards": An Interview With State Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid

Rashid, the first Palestinian in the Illinois General Assembly, talks with Nashwa Bawab about Gaza, Biden, Wadea Al-Fayoume, and the settler attack on his childhood home of Turmusaya.

Nashwa Bawab

DispatchRural America

Don't Pave Paradise

A West Virginia community rallied to stave off the destruction of Cacapon Resort State Park by private developers. Will it last?

Ellie Heffernan

LaborPalestine

The Next Target for Protests Against Israel: Ports

Hundreds of protesters took action at ports in Oakland and Tacoma to try and stop the Cape Orlando's progress. Meanwhile, dockworkers in Barcelona called for a cease-fire and announced they would not work on ships carrying weapons.

Kim Kelly

ViewpointPalestine

Here are 3 Ways the U.S. Media Tries to Justify Israel’s Attacks on Civilians in Gaza

From the use of terms such as “human shields,” “terror tunnels” and “Hamas strongholds,” media outlets are covering for Israel’s devastating bombing campaign on Palestinians.

Adam Johnson

ViewpointPalestine

"We Need Eyes on Us for Protection": Unhinged, Murderous Settlers Terrorize Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills

As Gaza faces genocide, extremist settlers in the West Bank are running rampant. One Youth of Sumud activist says: “The Israeli settler militias benefit from this state of war, they are the ones who are ruling this area."

Ryah Aqel

LaborPalestine

The AFL-CIO Squashed a Council's Cease-Fire Resolution. What Does It Say About Labor Right Now?

The move illustrates larger dynamics currently at play within the U.S. labor movement as the assault on Gaza rages on. While some unions and labor activists are advocating for an immediate end to the onslaught, most officials are keeping quiet.

Jeff Schuhrke

Palestine

“Unprecedented” Loophole Will Obscure Arms Sales to Israel

The Ukraine-Israel aid bill effectively lets Israel purchase $3.5 billion in arms in complete secrecy.

Janet Abou-Elias, Lillian Mauldin, Mekedas Belayneh, Rosie Khan, Liv Owens and Women for Weapons Trade Transparency

ViewpointPalestine

There Is Hope—and a Growing Movement for Palestine. Join Us in Washington D.C. on Saturday.

The time is now for people from all walks of life to raise their voices and demand Biden call for a cease-fire and for the United States to stop funding war and oppression.

Nashwa Bawab

DispatchRural America

In Small Town Appalachia, Locals Battle a Weapons-Grade Uranium Plant

The company Nuclear Fuel Services wants to process weapons-grade uranium for the U.S. government at a facility in Erwin, Tennessee. Some locals aren’t having it.

Taylor Sisk

Feature

The Fight Is On To Stop the Sale of the Only Municipally-Owned Railroad in the U.S.

Cincinnati voters are about to decide whether to privatize their city’s railroad by selling it to Norfolk Southern. A grassroots campaign is organizing to block the sale.

Kari Lydersen

ViewpointCulture

Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us

"States demonstrate, again and again, that not only do they not protect the Earth, they facilitate its destruction." Dean Spade on the promise of speculative fiction and a review of The Ministry for the Future and The Deluge.

Dean Spade

Labor

“What Could We Win Together?” Labor in Minnesota Gears up for a Major Escalation

With a string of contracts expiring in the new year, Minnesota unions and community groups are gathering to unite around a strategy for a cleaner environment and better jobs, housing and schools.

Isabela Escalona and Amie Stager

Labor

The UAW Has Now Reached a Tentative Agreement With Each of the Big Three

The deal with General Motors, the last of the major U.S. automakers to settle, could put an end to the union's historic Stand-Up Strike. But now it's up to the members.

Jake Johnson

Interview

No es una “crisis migratoria". Es una crisis de desinversión.

Los Venezolanos impulsados hacia el norte por el imperialismo estadounidense llegaron a una ciudad destrozada por el neoliberalismo.

Lilian Jiménez

Interview

Cruelties Collide for Migrants in Chicago

Venezuelans driven north by U.S. imperialism landed in a city decimated by neoliberalism.

Lilian Jiménez

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

The New Cold War in the Arctic

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong.

Adam Federman