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How grassroots union activists fight Trump, Republican callousness
One man is battling the callousness of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who have the power to help but prefer to inflict additional hardships on the people they ostensibly represent.
Obama privately indicated leading ‘Stop-Bernie Campaign’
According to Politico, the Democratic establishment is counting on Obama to stop Trump and, perhaps, stave off Bernie as well.
On the road from protest to power: A rising tide
The “political establishment” is going to have a much harder time using its financial and institutional muscle to relegate this new generation of thoughtful, strategic and energized grassroots candidates.
National Liberal Groups to Push ‘Record’ Number of 2016 Ballot Measures
This year, national liberal groups are pushing ballot measures to tackle issues, such as gun control, marijuana legalization and increasing the minimum wage, that prove popular in polls but that politicians have generally avoided.
An Exciting Democracy Movement Arises in Chicago
“Reclaim Chicago,” a progressive, people-led democratic coalition, are attempting to reclaim their city. Corporate elites and corrupt politicians better beware of the power of thousands of grassroots Chicagoans.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.