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Ten people describe experiencing or witnessing inappropriate behavior by AFGE president J. David Cox. He denies the allegations.

“Right now there is a movement of workers across the country who are taking back their power at a scale we have not seen in recent memory,” tweeted Independent Vermont Senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on October 25.

At the J Street Annual Conference, Sanders was a crowd favorite, and can take credit for creating space for a more robust discussion of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

The media is uninterested in protest movements around the world.

Transitioning utilities to public ownership could help lay the groundwork for a renewable, just future.

Based on the famously unfinished short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the filmmaker conjures madness and dread for this period piece about two lighthouse keepers' inner and outer darkness.

Witches, Prophets, Katie Hill, Superheroes, Militarism, Must-Reads for Fash, Spat-on Teachers, Georgia Book Burners, and Rent Control in Cali

As Capital & Main reported recently, drivers with one of the larger trucking companies serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach went on strike just before dawn October 26th. These drivers are on the front lines of a critical fight impacting the future of work in the United States: “misclassification,” a condition in which companies wrongly treat their workers as “independent contractors” rather than as employees.

As part of the National Single Payer Strategy Conference in Chicago, the Labor Campaign for Single Payer has released an important new briefing paper "Turning Chevys into Cadillacs: The ACA Excise Tax and the Future of Healthcare Bargaining". The conference was the biggest convening of Single Payer advocates ever in Chicago described as very exciting, great turnout and energy from union activists and leaders across the country.

Millions of Americans believe that President Obama has normalized relations with Cuba and ended over 50 years of US efforts to strangle its economy. They might have been puzzled when the United States stood up against every other nation save one, in opposing the UN General Assembly resolution that passed, 191-2, on October 27, 2015.