Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Fastfood workers strike demanding $15 an hour and union rights

"They want to send a message to both the Biden-Harris administration and Congress to prioritize passing $15 an hour (legislation) in the first 100 days."
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Overcrowding, rotten food & nooses: DHS watchdog confirms horrific conditions at immigrant jails

Now Homeland Security’s own inspector general has revealed how detained immigrants are subjected to rotten food, severe overcrowding, inadequate medical care, and broken and overflowing toilets.

How one cooperative is trying to develop an alternative economy in Oakland

Repaired Nations seeks to build wealth for the Black community in the East Bay through education and empowerment of its residents and youth.

The border fetish

The U.S. frontier as a zone of profit and sacrifice.

The future may be female but the pandemic is patriarchal

I hope that the rest of us become attached to less polluted air and lower carbon emissions. I hope that we learn to value the lives of women.
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Bernie Sanders takes on corporate power and wealth inequality during town hall

"This is what a rigged economy looks like and it must end."

Job growth remains slow in September, but unemployment rate falls to 3.5 percent

Manufacturing employment hit a record low as a share of private sector employment.

Farewell 2017, year of anxiety

There was anxiety in the air throughout much of the world in 2017—here's what you should know going into 2018.

Obama Admin Approved Over 1,500 Offshore Fracking Permits in Gulf of Mexico and Mainstream...

Speaking of keeping the public in the dark, where was the mainstream media when these facts were brought to light by progressive news outlets?

Improving public education

As we know, education has become ever more expensive over the last 40 years. Teachers' salaries have declined, and school expenses have risen.