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“Over the last year,” Goldstein charges, “Rep. Goodlatte has made it his mission to create a massive new guest worker program of millions of captive workers who have even fewer labor rights than the current workers they would replace

Boots Riley—Oakland activist, musician, and now film-maker extraordinaire—has made labor organizing in an almost entirely non-union industry seem doable and definitely worth the bother.

The American efforts were mostly unsuccessful. It was the Russians who ultimately stepped in to introduce the measure — and the Americans did not threaten them.

It took Andrés Manuel López Obrador 12 years to become president-elect of Mexico, making history for Mexico’s Left as his party’s coalition also achieved a legislative majority. But despite the electoral landslide the struggle has only just begun.

'This is a big win for us.' Cancellation of Sacramento ICE contract part of a national push.

Spokespeople for the Pentagon and the Army said that, due to the pending litigation, they were unable to explain the discharges or respond to questions about whether there have been policy changes in any of the military branches.

The EPA administrator’s departure Thursday caps a remarkable run of scandals.

Despite the challenges sex- and gender-diverse people face, their numbers will keep growing as sex- and gender-diverse movements get stronger, more people gain access to the internet and connect with other marginalized sex- and gender-diverse people.

ICE is supposed to keep Americans safe. Instead, it's terrorizing refugees, families, and small children.

The disastrous impacts of Hurricane Maria were magnified by inequalities of race, income, and access to U.S. political power.