The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Wildcat Winter: How the Walmart Labor Struggle is Going Global
The 2.1 million Walmart workers constitute the third-largest workforce in the world, following the U.S. Department of Defense and the People’s Liberation Army of China. And they are revolting.
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Can the Occupy Movement and Organized Labor Strengthen Ties in 2013?
With its emphasis on direct democracy, spontaneity and flexibility of tactics – unbounded by union hierarchies or legal impediments such as the Taft-Hartley Act – Occupy has infused the labor movement with a fresh dose of radicalism.
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Argument to Raise the Minimum Wage, Part II
Everyone acknowledges that poverty is terrible but most business owners fail to grasp why it is a black hole from which there is no escape.
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Activists Stage 'Block the Boat' Protest Against Walmart Cargo Ship
Activists gathered outside the Port of Newark to protest the arrival of a ship that carried Walmart goods from Bangladesh, the location of a fatal factory fire.
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7 Stunning New Details About Walmart's Mexican Bribery Scandal
Walmart's Mexican excursion has been replete with bribery and corruption.
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Why Austerity Economics Hurts Low-Wage Workers the Most
What does the drama in Washington over the “fiscal cliff” have to do with strikes and work stoppages among America’s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonald’s, Burger King, and Domino’s Pizza? Everything.
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NYC Fast Food Workers Strike, Attempt to Unionize
Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job Thursday, firing the first salvo in the biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United States.
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Black Friday at Walmart: #Occupied
Across the country, activists stood with underpaid Walmart workers on Black Friday.
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Momentum Builds for Historic Black Friday Strike at Walmart
In a taste of what the nation’s largest retailer can expect on Black Friday, frustrated Walmart workers have started walking off their jobs to protest their employer’s attempts to silence outspoken workers.
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Walmart Workers Strike in California
Workers at a Walmart-contracted warehouse in Southern California went on strike Wednesday to demand better conditions at their facility.
