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“Striketober”: Hopes and Realities

Marianne Garneau Brooklyn Rail
The class struggle never ends. When unions certify a workplace, the employer begins their campaign to punish workers for it on day one.

Reproductive Justice is Economic Justice

Lee Saunders and Elissa McBride AFSCME
We reject the efforts of legislators in states across the country to abolish the right to make one’s own decisions regarding their bodies, their health care, their families and their futures

Capitalism vs. Liberty

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
It’s time for Americans to call socialism by its name. Like Sisyphus, the best we can expect is that the rock may stay where we’ve put it for a long while, sometimes for entire generations of decency, as the struggle continues.

Friday Nite Videos -- September 19, 2014

Portside
Brother Earth (Boots Riley). Playing for Change: La Bamba. Sarah Jones: The Future. Colbert: No Boots on the Ground in Iraq. 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds.

What Does the Future Hold? Quirky Characters Answer

In a laugh-out-loud performance, Sarah Jones invites 11 "friends" from the future on stage—from a fast-talking Latina to an outspoken police officer—to ask them the questions all of us want answered.