NIOSH Upheld Workplace Safety for Millions in the US. Trump Is Dismembering It.
For more than half a century, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), a division of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), has worked to improve workplace...
View Article3 People Die in ICE Custody in April as Conditions Worsen in Immigration Jails
The Trump administration has created a human rights crisis with its draconian, made-for-TV campaign of mass deportation. As arrests ramp up across the country, three people died inside immigration...
View ArticleUCLA Gaza Protesters Sue Cops for Shooting Them in the Head With Rubber Bullets
Police conspired to violently attacks anti-genocide protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles last year, according to a suit filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court. At the height...
View ArticleMissouri’s Voters Restored Abortion Rights. Their Leaders Are Trying to...
COLUMBIA, Missouri — Celeste Athon had played softball from the day she was old enough to sign up for a local youth league. She’d never felt like this before. Athon, a second base player for the...
View ArticleClimate Disaster Survivors Organize Across America, Turning Common Bonds of...
The flames took Erica Solove by surprise. It was the middle of winter in Colorado. Blizzards were to be expected. A fire? Not so much. Yet on Dec. 30, 2021, the Marshall Fire tore through the towns of...
View ArticleFarmers Fought Back When Trump Administration Stopped Paying Them to Help...
Every year brings its own unique challenges for California farmers: water shortages, fires, finding laborers to do the work, bureaucrats in Sacramento adding new requirements and fees, and more. But...
View ArticleICE Wants to Reopen a Notoriously Abusive Prison; This Community Is Trying to...
A notorious federal prison in Dublin, CA, was closed in 2024 after years of complaints of rampant and systematic sexual abuse, medical neglect, and human rights violations. Now, the Trump...
View ArticleFrom Pahalgam, Voices That Ought To Shame the Sectarian Zealot
Himanshi and Vinay Narwal were married a week before the young naval officer was murdered by Islamist terrorists at a meadow near Pahalgam. Yet while sectarian vigilantes have been busy carrying out...
View ArticleThe High-Stakes, Global Battle Over Trump’s Tariffs
Trump’s ‘tariff war’ is not an issue solely or even primarily about the US economy. It is an attempt to bring the entire world trading system under unilateral US control, removing any minimal element...
View Article‘Inhumanity’: IDF Soldiers Drop Blue Bomb in Gaza as Part of Gender Reveal...
As thousands of Palestinian children across Gaza face starvation two months into Israel’s most recent complete blockade on humanitarian aid into the enclave, members of the Israel Defense Forces...
View ArticleICE Wants to Reopen a Notoriously Abusive Orison; This Community Is Trying to...
Today, Israel’s government approved plans for its forces to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the occupied territory indefinitely in a move that will no doubt spark fierce international...
View ArticleA Green Way to Challenge Austerity and Reform UK
Millions of people have been suffering the effects of UK neoliberal policies, especially post-2010 austerity, which aggravated the damage from the 1980s-1990s austerity programme. They have endured...
View ArticleDear Generation Z, Where Are You?
I know you have lives to lead. Friends and parties to enjoy. Tests to take and grades to earn. Jobs to be hired for and retain. I know your values shine. Your empathy sings. I know you bemoan Donald,...
View ArticleUS and Hungary Stand Alone at ICJ in Favor of Israel’s Blockade on Gaza
Since March 2, Israel has blocked all food, medicine, fuel, and other relief from entering the besieged Gaza Strip, home to 2.1 million Palestinian people. “Israel is starving, killing and displacing...
View ArticleOn “National Security” Grounds: Most (But Not All) VA Workers Lose Union...
When President Trump’s cabinet picks trooped up to Capitol Hill earlier this year for Senate confirmation hearings, hardly any boasted about their past union connections. But Secretary of Veterans...
View ArticleFrom Farm to Factory: What Actually Constitutes Good Work?
Trade unions and progressive movements rightly demand better wages and working conditions for employees to improve society. But the question of what good work actually means is rarely asked. And how...
View ArticleAn Autopsy of Opaque Persecution in a Democracy
Since at least classical antiquity, the differences between dictatorship and democracy have been clear, unequivocal, and as evident as the difference between water and oil. In theory. In practice, the...
View ArticleMillionaires Don’t Flee States Over Higher Taxes
Increasing taxes on high income earners helped raise revenue without hampering the wealth of the millionaire class in Massachusetts and Washington, according to a new policy brief from the Institute...
View ArticleWorkers in India Are on the March
Ninety percent of Indian workers are in the unorganised sector. This does not mean that they are outside trade union structures, but only that most workers must fight very hard to form unions. There...
View ArticleKeep Demonstrating Against Trump — but Also for a Better Future
Friends, Demonstrations against Trump are getting larger and louder. Fabulous. This is absolutely essential. But at some point we’ll need to demonstrate not just against Trump but also for the America...
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