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Armed with drums, tribal flags, and cell phones, demonstrators moved to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion dollar crude-oil conduit slated to cut just 1,000 feet from the perimeter of native land. Confrontations began on Wednesday, August 10, when construction crews and private security hired by Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based developers overseeing the pipeline, arrived to break ground. Fourteen Arrests were made on Thursday...

TPP "will cost American jobs, harm the environment, increase the cost of prescription drugs, and threaten our ability to protect public health".

The history of Labor Notes shows that labor's strength -- and socialists' relevance -- depend on a militant and independent rank and file.

What those striking are now bravely confronting in Atlantic City should resonate deeply with American workers, their unions, and beyond.

Fifteen states will have laws in place this Election Day that have never before been tested in a presidential election.

In testimony at his manslaughter trial for summarily executing a disarmed Palestinian attacker, Elor Azaria, an Israeli Defense Force sergeant, is openly describing the violence, de-humanization, hatred, and settler domination that define the Israeli occupation. But make no mistake; he’s not breaking his silence, he is unrepentant. This is the trial of a soldier who committed a crime, and of an entire system mobilized to brand him as an “unrepresentative” lone gunman.

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