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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Labor Strikes Back: A Forum on How Workers Can Win
Based on recent labor activism by teachers and workers, there is a clear opportunity to build a “mass movement from below” and bring a bottom (99%) versus top (1%) progressive strategy to the 2020 elections.
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Strikes by U.S. Workers Outpacing Rate in 2018
New strikes this month by hospital workers in Toledo, Ohio; teachers in Oregon, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina; and international strikes and protests by Uber and Lyft drivers are further galvanizing the labor movement.
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Robert Reich: How To Hold Corporations Accountable (video)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new bill, the Accountable Capitalism Act, proposes that workers be able to elect at least 40 percent of large corporations' boards, and cracks down on corporate lawbreaking.
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Act Out! [158] - May Day is American: Know Your History & Why May 1st Matters
A special episode dedicated to the past that built our present that'll dictate our future. We look at the upcoming bicentenary of Karl Marx's birthday, then dive deep into May 1st – International Workers' Day.
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The Maquiladora Workers of Juárez Find Their Voice
Low pay, abusive conditions, no union representation — now employees are fed up and fighting back, as the city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, is the center of a growing rebellion of laborers in border factories.
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Can Non-Wall Street Democrats Present a Real Plan To Empower Workers?
Abandoned for decades by a party eager to cozy up to Wall Street and advance a neoliberal economic agenda, unions are once again being lauded by top Democratic Party leaders. But what's behind the warm embrace?
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Labor Rising: Why Worker Rights Are Human Rights
Courts and employers must heed the call to enforce already-guaranteed worker rights, mandate a living wage, and ensure humane working conditions for those whose work is so vital to our economy.
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Mexico's Exiled Mining Union Leader Describes Unlawful Industry That Claims Lives
After the Pasta de Conchos mine collapse in 2006, which killed 65 miners, Grupo México and the Mexican government shutdown rescue operations, many feel, to avoid revealing the cause of the disaster.
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For Our Vote To Make a Difference, It's Time to Try New Tactics
The victory of Seattle's socialist city council member Kshama Sawant shows how grassroots efforts are creating an opening for independent political action by working people — even in the tightly controlled world of electoral politics and the two-party system.
