Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.
Activist and writer Jim Williams, in his new autobiography, covers his life from Students for a Democratic Society activist, to Communist labor editor, to social worker.
In finding a new way to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross changes the way we perceive the world itself.
Most people do their food shopping solely at supermarkets or grocery stores where they find only those options that big food corporations allow them. Today the top five food retail companies account for about half of the market.
Could a movie musical about a trans Mexican drug lord be this awards season’s Crash?
California poet Charlotte Muse digs into the open grave which is Gaza.
The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change
Labor
Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers AND Starbucks unions strike ahead of holiday.
The president of Canada’s largest labour organization slammed the government for its “misuse” of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code.
From planetarium lecturers to performers at strip clubs and escape rooms, Actors’ Equity is organizing live entertainment workers far beyond traditional musicals. The union’s strategy could be crucial as unions brace for a potential anti-labor admin
“Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) co-leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have floated a number of plans targeting federal workers, including plans to end telework.
Threats started in New York and spread to Chicago and Atlanta after company failed to meet negotiation deadline.
Donald Trump is signaling that he will attempt a coup before even taking office. It's going to take all of our strategizing and mobilizing to defeat it ... again. Portside will be there every day, and we’re asking you to help. Here’s how.
Last month, workers at a Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, the first such filing since Amazon took over the grocery chain in 2017. We spoke with some of the workers about the union
Santa and his workshop are, like America, having a bumpy sleigh ride transitioning to the incoming Trump administration. Elon Musk's DOUCHE program makes it worse.
BBC reporters are in open revolt over the bias in BBC management in its Palestine coverage
Written and recorded in 1962 for Bob Dylan's second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the song famously prophecies dark days. See also the Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown.
And why so many of them are shot in Vancouver.
Syrian helicopters dropped chlorine gas on the town of Douma on April 7, 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. The town grieved in silence ... until now.
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro. Only in theaters Christmas Day. #ACompleteUnknown
SCOOP: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike to attempt to win their first union contract right before Christmas — the company's busiest time.
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