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America’s security depends on defeating oligarchy abroad and at home.

One of the nation's oldest and most prestigious regional newspapers, The Chicago Tribune, could soon have a unionized staff. On Wednesday morning, journalists from its newsroom informed management that they are preparing to organize and that they have collected signatures from dozens of colleagues.

In March, the New York Parole Board granted parole for Herman Bell. A judge in New York has suspended the release of Bell.

“Since their invention, online forums for advertisements and community-building have been essential to sex worker survival,” says Liz Afton, a counselor at the Sex Workers Project, an initiative of New York City’s Urban Justice Center (UJC).

What is needed is a broad-based coalitional effort to combat not only street violence, school violence and sexual violence but also state violence.

Today's Poor People's Campaign seeks to develop local leadership, including strong representation of the millions of poor people — black, brown, and white — to create a multi-racial, multi-gendered, intergenerational movement to heal the racial and economic divides tearing America apart.

Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is