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Rutgers Faculty Win Victory, But The Fight Isn’t Over
Rutgers workers won pay increases, but they will need to continue to fight against future challenges. …
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BART’s Future?
The news media are raising concerns about the future of BART. The problems with BART are a product of wider societal problems. …
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Where Is It Safe Anymore?
The city of Davis, California, has been rocked in recent weeks by a series of stabbings that …
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The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library Occupation
For over two weeks now, University of California (UC) Berkeley students, faculty, and community members …
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Horses Die for Owners’ Profits
Last weekend was the Kentucky Derby, a nearly 150-year-old horse race, attended by spectators with …
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Baltimore Government Responds to Youth-Related Violence with Repression, Not Solutions
Baltimore is responding to youth-related violence by instituting a curfew, which punishes youth and does nothing to address the causes. …
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Texas Governor and Politicians Don’t Care About Human Suffering
Last Friday, in yet another horrifying case of armed violence, a man shot and killed five …
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Transport Worker Cuts Impact Kaiser Care
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …
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SpaceX Threatens Human Communities and Wildlife
SpaceX’s Starship launch threw debris into local communities and wildlife habitats. …
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Safety – It’s On Who?
The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit …
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Mississippi Police Laws Stifle Democracy in Jackson
Two new laws passed by the Mississippi legislature and signed into law by the governor …
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Rockridge Trader Joes and the Difficulty of a Contract
Workers at the Rockridge Trader Joe’s in Oakland, California, voted on April 20 in favor …
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Yes, It’s The System
The following is reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit …
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Racist Antioch Police
“This… is the most pervasive racial hatred case I’ve ever been involved in…This conduct itself …
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Biden Power Plant Proposal – Not Nearly Enough
Over the weekend news broke that the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration will, for the first …
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CSX in Baltimore: A Dangerous Place to Work
The December 2021 explosion at the CSX coal pier in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of …
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30 Years After LGBTQ March on Washington: We Are Still Fighting for Freedom
The March On April 25, 1993, more than a million people participated in a March …
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The Shooting of Ralph Yarl
The shooting of Ralph Yarl and the delay in charging the shooter show the toxic effects of racism in the U.S. …
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Curtis Bay: A Community Fights against Deadly “Sacrifice Zone” in Baltimore
Across the Patapsco River from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor tourist district lie the former neighborhoods of …
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Hedge Funds Profit Off High Food Prices and Human Misery
Following “momentum driven” algorithms that automatically determine when to buy or sell commodities at the …
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Massive Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse in Baltimore Area Documented; But Where is the Justice?
Earlier this month, the Maryland Attorney General’s office released an explicit, brutal, and horrifying report …
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Clarence Thomas and the Courts for the Rich
ProPublica recently revealed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has for decades received luxury trips …
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Greg Abbott Green-Lights Far-Right Violence
The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, is “working as swiftly as Texas law allows” to …
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China Military Drills – Dangerous Friction with U.S. Empire
Last week, China held three days of combat drills in the South China Sea, simulating …
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Tennessee Republicans Up the Ante on Political Repression
On April 6, Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives upped the ante on political …
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Right-Wing Courts Move to Ban Medication Abortion Nationwide
Last week in Texas, a Trump-appointed judge placed a nationwide ban on the use of …
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Exposed! Railroads Bosses’ Dirty Tactics to Make Sick Workers Stay on the Job
Union Pacific Railroad (UP) routinely employs private investigators to find a pretext for firing employees …
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Academic Workers Strike in New Jersey
On Monday morning, nearly 9,000 tenured professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers went on …
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We Still Need a Health Safety Net
The U.S. is rolling back Medicaid benefits, but we still need healthcare! …
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Finland joins NATO – Militarism in Eastern Europe on the Rise
Finland has joined NATO, the alliance through which the U.S. advances its military interests. …
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Fallujah, Iraq – Fallout from the Iraq War
Fallujah, Iraq remains polluted by radioactive weapons used decades ago by the U.S. military. …
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Fishing Ban in California
California has canceled salmon fishing season, as salmon populations have collapsed. …
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Trans Day of Visibility
Transgender Day of Visibility is now more important than ever, as the far-right pushes anti-trans laws and rhetoric. …
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50 Massive Tornadoes Destroy Communities in Two Days
Last week over 50 massive tornadoes swept across the southern and eastern parts of the …
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Mask & COVID Vaccine Mandates Ending April 3!
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …
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The “Freedom” to Die Young: U.S. Declining Life Expectancy
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) recently published a paper that sounded the alarm about …
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Biden Overrules Anti-Racist Legislation in D.C.
On March 20th, Biden signed into law a bill passed by Congress, including most Republicans …
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For Efficiency, Cigna Health Insurance Just Says NO!
Cigna health insurance has an efficient system to process claims quickly and easily: they just …
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Flooding in California Hits Farmworkers Hard
In the past 4 months, California has seen wave after wave of rain, drenching the …
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Mississippi Tornado Devastates Community; But It Didn’t Have to be this Bad
Many people in Rolling Fork, Mississippi and nearby towns are facing the loss of their …
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Chocolate Factory Explosion
In the early evening of Friday, March 24, an explosion killed 7 workers and hospitalized several others …
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Tens of millions at risk of losing health care as the government ends emergency Medicaid coverage
With the end of the government-declared pandemic health emergency also comes the end of Medicaid coverage. …
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Republicans Introduce Hundreds of Anti-Trans Bills Across the Country
Republicans are vilifying trans people, hoping to mobilize their far-right voters. We must organize against these attacks on the lives of trans people. …
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Mo TV Series – What it Means to be Undocumented in the U.S.
Mo is a Netflix series that captures the struggles endured by undocumented people in the U.S. …
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Film Review: 9 to 5: The Story of a Movement — Working Women Organized to Fight Back
“9 to 5” is a phrase that will remind some people of the 1980 movie …
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Student Loan Debt SCOTUS Case Update
The Supreme Court is hearing a case to determine whether or not Biden’s student loan …
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Los Angeles School Staff and Teachers on Strike
On Tuesday, school staff represented by Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 99, in the …
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Hypocrisy in Action: International Criminal Court Calls for Putin’s Arrest
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin based on his crimes. Why has it not, in 20 years, issued any for U.S., Saudi, or Turkish leaders for their crimes? …
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Floods in California: Not a “Natural” Catastrophe
The town of Pajaro, California, was flooded after its under-engineered levee broke. …
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32 States Cut Back Food Assistance
Food stamp programs are being slashed in 32 states. These cuts will affect 30 million …