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Swedish Dockworkers’ Union leader Sacked For Gaza Solidarity Action Asks...
Security is a funny elixir. The more of it that you have, the less there is for someone else… or that’s the conventional wisdom anyway. Erik Helgeson’s experience, however, proves otherwise. Erik, 42,...
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Don’t Let The News Overwhelm You — Use This Tool To Stay Engaged
If you try to track every piece of news, you may find it impossible to mentally survive the onslaught of these times. Donald Trump and Elon Musk have unleashed a barrage of civil rights rollbacks,...
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Warning of Grave Threat to Free Speech, Judge Frees Rümeysa Öztürk
Rümeysa Öztürk, one of several pro-Palestine scholars kidnapped and imprisoned by the Trump administration under its dubious interpretation of an 18th-century law and a Cold War-era national security...
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The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
As pundits debate whether inflation or cultural grievance drove high numbers of working-class voters into Donald Trump’s embrace, legal scholar Joan C. Williams suggests a new approach to the problem....
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The Price of Silence: Gaza’s Famine and the Erosion of Our Humanity –...
The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract...
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‘Under Cover of Night,’ GOP Unveils Plan to Kick Over 8 Million Off Medicaid
House Republicans late Sunday unveiled legislation that analysts said would rip Medicaid coverage from millions of low-income Americans—including children and people with disabilities—to help fund tax...
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Wells Fargo Wants to Privatize USPS. We Should Dismantle the Mega Bank Instead.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is a front line in the struggle for democracy and justice against corporate power, as a memo released by Wells Fargo unveils. Published February 27, the memo...
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Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a...
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The Obscenity of Collective Punishment in Gaza
Maybe you remember an incident like this from your schooldays. Someone in your class has done something wrong, like pass around a caricature of the principal, and the teacher decides to punish the...
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Sri Lanka’s Left in the Tariff Trap
“Katunayake FTZ workers skip travel home to vote due to high bus fares” reported a Sri Lankan news outlet on the morning of Monday, May 5, one day before local government elections. The headline...
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Trump’s Unimpressive Yemen Cease-Fire Deal
We already knew Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against Yemen was unconstitutional. It turns out it was completely pointless too. Earlier this week, Trump and the Houthi leadership of Yemen announced a...
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Donald Trump’s Feverish Lust for Green Energy Resources
Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. This is Oak Flat (Chi’ chil Bildagoteel), a sacred site for Native Americans,...
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Democratic Employee Ownership For a Resilient Canadian Economy
The US government’s escalating trade war has forced us to quickly rethink and prepare to reorient Canada’s economy. Discussions have thus far focused on developing new export markets and reducing...
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The Reality of Hawaii’s Tourist Climate Tax
Here’s something you don’t hear every day: A notable climate change law is about to be signed in the United States. Hawaii state lawmakers on Friday approved what’s known as the “green fee,” a...
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Stephen Miller’s Argument for Suspending Habeas Corpus Is Legal Garbage
If White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is to be believed, Team Trump is poised to drive another stake through the heart of the Constitution. On May 9, Miller told reporters that the...
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Community-run Food Co-ops Can Reduce Food Insecurity and Boost Healthy Diets
As grocery prices continue to rise, many Australians are struggling to afford healthy food and are looking for alternatives to the big supermarket chains. The recent supermarkets inquiry, run by the...
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New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are...
New York is home to four of the largest bitcoin mines in the country, which consume huge quantities of electric power and water to cool their server farms, emit loud humming noises around the clock and...
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Hamas Releases US-Israeli Citizen Edan Alexander After Talks With US
On Monday, Hamas released Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old New Jersey-born IDF soldier who was captured during the October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel. Alexander was handed over to the Red Cross, which...
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Block & Build 2.0 At the Housing Justice Front
The Block and Build framework has been a key component of Right to the City Alliance’s strategy development over the past couple of years. Convergence’s “Block and Build 2.0” framework resonates with...
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The Times That Try Men’s Souls: America in 1776 and 2025
Two hundred forty nine years ago, at the beginning of the American Revolution, it was the prose of a newly arrived immigrant from England, Thomas Paine, that stirred the revolutionary spirit among...
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