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“Human resources departments exist primarily to keep the employer from being sued,” author and longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey tells In These Times. “While they may play functional bureaucratic roles, the chief purpose of HR departments in my experience—after a lifetime in the labor movement—is to protect the company, not workers. Obviously they will be totally ineffective to address the sexual harassment crisis in this country.”

The U.S. military is a key climate polluter, likely the “largest organizational user of petroleum in the world,” according to a congressional report released in December 2012. Beyond its immediate carbon footprint—which is difficult to measure—the U.S. military has placed countless countries under the thumb of western oil giants. Social movements have long sounded the alarm over the link between U.S.-led militarism and climate change.

From Raleigh to Los Angeles, communities on the frontlines are building the movement infrastructure for a coordinated fightback.

Communities of color in Chicago meticulously documented the CPD's pattern of racist violence.

Communities of color in Chicago meticulously documented the CPD's pattern of racist violence.

There are nearly 29,000 DOD contractors in Afghanistan.

Protesters taking to the streets today say that police violence against black residents of Milwaukee remains systemic. “You see anger, just the anger and the frustration of a community that has suffered atrocities and oppression on behalf of what they deem to be the police oppressive system, that has never seemingly been held accountable for taking the life, like the young man said, of their loved ones,” Muhibb Dyer, a community activist said.

Minneapolis is a case study in how police hate speech fosters a climate of violence.

“The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and is tormented by the role he played in doing so.

A shocking new reports exposes rampant discrimination and denial of life-saving treatment in 1 of 6 hospital beds.