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In California for example, the California Nurses Association (CNA) spent 13 years fighting and winning the first—and thus far only—legislated safe nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in the country.

Class politics is reemerging in response to the huge inequality caused by the 2008 crash.

Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war has killed thousands of Filipinos. It is time for the United States to stop enabling human rights violations by ending military aid to the Philippines.

Herald employees say they plan to organize for better salaries and working conditions — and, in essence, fight back when the company announces its next round of seemingly never-ending cutbacks.

Photographer Dawoud Bey has been taking portraits of a wide range of African American subjects for decades. His powerful, but apparently unassuming style imprints on our minds the beauty of everyday people.

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FISA, unemployment, US-EU trade pact, food stamps, treason?

We want to save Social Security

Two million workers nationwide who are employed by private businesses contracted with the government struggle to make ends meet.

“Although this showdown is likely still several months away, we must remain vigilant against any proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. We will not allow far right politicians to hold our vital benefit programs hostage to their irresponsible threat to shut down the government.”