The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor
Card Check Bill for California Farm Workers Heads to Governor’s Desk
Rose Arrieta
New Public Health Campaign Aims to End Ronald McDonald’s Career
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Video
Why Have U.S. Jobs Gone Overseas?
Joe Macaré
Labor
Immigrant Workers’ Exploitation Highlights Perils of Job Placement Agencies
Akito Yoshikane
Newt Gingrich Is Good at Losing Friends
Minjae Park

Labor
Workforce Initiatives Put Brakes on Controversial Free Trade Deals—for Now
Michelle Chen

Dispatch
Military Rape: Rampant, Ignored
A lawsuit against Robert Gates and Donald Rumsfeld and new legislation try to stop an epidemic.
Nan Levinson

Labor
Locked-Out Honeywell Workers Travel Far and Wide to Fight Company
Mike Elk
Comics
theforeverwar
Eric Garcia

Labor
After the Crisis, Rise of Worker Discrimination Is Breathtaking
Jonathan Tasini
The Endless Search for ‘Success’ In Afghanistan
David Szydloski
Viewpoint
Resistance Is Fatal
Terry J. Allen
The Wavelength: Attack of the Media Mega-Mergers! Skyprosoft, AT&T-Mobile and more
Eric K. Arnold
Labor
Chemical Industry Regulation Would Create, Not Kill Jobs
Kari Lydersen
Video
How Could Obama Stop Unionbusting?
Joe Macaré

Dispatch
The Blair Mountain Project
Activists want to protect the site of a deadly labor struggle—and stop mountaintop removal coal mining.
Melinda Tuhus

Labor
Did Boeing’s Meet the Press Sponsorship Allow Gingrich to Lie About Company’s NLRB Case?
Mike Elk
Disaster Capitalism Erupts in Wisconsin
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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