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"Medicare for All is winning," said Alyssa Kang, community organizer with the California Nurses Association.

More than 100 workers at a Tom Steyer-founded bank have won collective bargaining rights in an industry with the lowest unionization rates in the country.

Although reviewer Cobban finds many faults in this book, her essay shows how this volume is nevertheless a useful guide to this relatively under-discussed chapter of 1960s and 1970s movement history.

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The contracting trend has transformed corporate America into a two-tier economic system of company employees with secure jobs and good benefits and contracted workers with poor benefits who lack job security.

On Sunday, more than 40 Afghan civil society organizations from across the country released an open letter calling for "an Afghan-owned, Afghan-led and Afghan-maintained peace."

The excessive testing, Corl said, stemmed from a model of emergency care that forces doctors to practice “fast and loose medicine.” Patients get a battery of tests before a doctor even has time to hear their story or give them a proper exam.

Race, gender, religion, abortion, immigration, gun control, culture and patriotism are issues used to divide the public. The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage.

In a clip from Tuesday's podcast, Goodman said that "the stakes in this Democratic primary are very high, and the corporate media's failing to bring people the crucial context necessary for voters to make informed decisions."

The triumph of Greta Gerwig's homage to Alcott, though not a Marxist or revolutionary work, is in its ability to connect modern viewers to a historical struggle: bringing the past alive by connecting it to the current political and social concerns.