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A blue state teacher rebellion: Denver teachers vote to strike as...
Denver teachers overwhelmingly agreed to strike for higher pay, for the profession and for the students for the first time in 25 years.
Nation’s largest school strike: 30,000 Los Angeles public-school teachers walkout
The strike follows months of failed negotiations between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the teachers union to reach a deal for smaller class sizes, increased support staff along with pay raises.
In a historic move, Los Angeles educators vote to strike
With corporations on a warpath to privatize schools, the future of public education is at stake across the country, and Los Angeles is ground zero for this struggle.
Update on prison strike demanding end of ‘slave labor:’ After 10...
"It’s getting something ignited in prisoners. So, prisoners know that this is – this is a climate where they can actually step up and feel supported."
National prison strike begins: Prisoners in 17 states demand end to...
Prisoners in at least 17 states are expected to participate in the coordinated sit-ins, hunger strikes, work stoppages and commissary boycotts from today until Sept. 9.
Over 90 percent of UPS Teamsters just voted to strike
It would be the largest strike the country has seen in decades.
Thousands of Verizon Workers Go on Strike
Thousands of Verizon employees will take to the streets demanding the company run more fairly.
Students Launch Historic Debt Strike, Refusing to Pay Back Predatory College...
Fifteen former students of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges system decided not to pay back loans they took out to attend the college. They've launched the nation's first student debt strike against the crushing debt.
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When will US join global call to end Ukraine War?
There are many peace initiatives to end the war in Ukraine being pursued by leaders and countries around the world as the United States clings to its dogged determination to prolong the war at great cost in Ukrainian lives and at the risk of nuclear war.
A global plastics treaty can end the Age of Plastic
This indigenous worldview can lead treaty negotiations, creating systems that are less demanding of our planet and value nature over profit.
The wars we don’t (care to) see
It couldn’t be more important to make America’s disastrous wars of this century more visible.
If pushing pardons for savage Jan. 6 seditionists isn’t unpardonable, what is?
Abusive pardons of the most serious crimes represent the great terrorist threat to self-government.
Climate activists decry pipeline ‘deal with the devil’ at protest outside Schumer’s home
"It's time to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure and that means no more pipelines. Chuck, stop appeasing Manchin!"