Puerto Rico: Teachers Fight for Higher Wages
On Feb. 4, more than five thousand teachers took to the streets in Puerto Rico …
On Feb. 4, more than five thousand teachers took to the streets in Puerto Rico …
The struggle to keep the school doors open may not be easy, but it is winnable. But it will take an even larger, more organized and continued mobilization by Oakland parents, students, teachers and staff to win this fight. …
Newark’s Penn Station is practically a homeless shelter, and the local politicians’ attempts at addressing it do not get to the root of the problem. …
Workers at Golden Gate Transit have voted to authorize a strike. …
UC students skipped class last week to protest the administration’s reopening policies. …
Healthcare workers continue to face the reality of Covid during the Omicron wave. …
This article was written by Jules Boycoff and originally published at jacobinmag.com on February 4, …
A scandal has started in France about the quality of care in Orpea nursing homes. …
Brian Flores has made public the racist hiring practices of the NFL. …
Black History Month is a reminder to look to the past and to make our own history. …
Any celebrations about the killing of ISIS leaders miss the fact that ISIS would not exist without the presence of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. …
On Tuesday, Feb.1 a nationwide “silent strike” took over the streets of Myanmar to honor the one-year anniversary of the fight against the military takeover, of Feb. 1, 2021. …
As Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is finishing its second week of the current semester, it …
Maybe you’ve heard of coral reef death or bleaching, but do you understand what coral …
The Oakland School Board meeting on Jan. 31, 2022 was attended by over 1,800 community …
Climate change is causing conditions at the Winter Olympics to be less safe. …
In a society that prioritized the life and health of all people, every person would have access to a free education that empowered them to reach their full potential. But under capitalism, the purpose of education is to keep schools open so that the economy keeps going and the profits keep rolling in. …
The COVID pandemic, on top of all of the longstanding economic instability, is causing record levels of forced migration from South America into the United States. …
While there may be some people who look at our schools and see them as a money-making opportunity, these schools are our schools. It is not their decision to make — it is ours. We must link up across school communities to stand side by side and say, “no school closures!” …
Punitive measures against truancy set in place by Kamala Harris, are now being leveled against students in Oakland who have had the audacity to demand that their schools provide real safety protection. …
On January 15, a major oil spill covered the northern beaches of Lima, Peru. The …
Indonesians can no longer have their capital in the coastline city of Jakarta because they are literally struggling to stay above water from the impacts of climate change. …
The Algerian Socialist Workers’ Party was suspended. This is an act of repression that must be opposed. …
A war over between NATO countries and Russia over Ukraine does not benefit the people of any country. …
Some striking workers in Guadeloupe have won concessions from the government. …
Are the CDC’s new looser guidelines based on science, or economic considerations? …
The aviation and telecommunication industries have come into conflict over 5G. …
The following video report was put out by the New York Times. It is a …
Since Wednesday, Jan. 12th, more than 8,000 workers in the Denver metro area at King Soopers, a grocery chain store owned by Kroger, have been on strike against low wages and poor working conditions. …
A new COVID vaccine is in the works that is intended to be produced at a low cost and with no patent protections, making it capable for others to produce it. …
The voice of a fast food worker that faced degrading working conditions and low pay. …
Workers at the Bay Area Rapid Transit system are confronted with the challenges of the latest COVID surge. …
On January 13, teachers in the National Education system went on strike en masse. Even the leading parents’ federation had called for children not to go to school. …
In 1943, Jewish people stood up and fought back heroically in the Warsaw ghetto uprising against all odds and the Nazi’s plant to exterminate them. …
The Supreme Court just voted down vaccine mandates, undermining the ability of OSHA to maintain a safe working environment. …
An investigation by Propublica published in Dec. 2021 reported that over $5.2 billion in Temporary …
Not only have extreme weather events from the climate crisis brought about tremendous destruction to lives and the environment, they have also brought on billions of dollars in damage. …
Hundreds of Marylanders are being notified that they may have received ineffective vaccine doses. …
The government has chosen force and repression rather than dialogue. But we know French colonialism has that habit: it would rather to scorn us, and humiliate us, than discuss with us. That is French colonialism. …
The first few months of this school year were exhausting and demoralizing for educators, as …
The United States and Russia have been recklessly moving towards war while using Ukraine as a tool. …
Students and graduates today face a massive burden of debt, while the government, banks, and loan servicers profit. …
“Stop the Steal!” That’s what Trump has said since he lost the 2020 presidential election …
Let’s coordinate so we can work together and reclaim our power from the capitalists. Here is a good resolution for 2022: risk everything to gain everything. …
A personal account from a worker at a COVID testing clinic. …
The rapidly warming of the oceans, and the consequences that come along with it, are yet another reminder for us that we cannot continue to dump greenhouse gasses into the ecosystem without expecting huge consequences. …
The reason that free or affordable tests and masks haven’t been available in the U.S. until now is the same reason we’ve been stuck in this COVID crisis – this system prioritizes profits above health and safety. …
“Don’t Look Up” shows that we cannot rely on politicians and the rich to solve our problems. …
An analysis of the victory of the Chilean political situation after the election of Gabriel Boric. …
On January 5, a fire in a Philadelphia row house killed twelve people, nine of …
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