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I came to the opening ceremonies with a delegation of other Palestinian lawyers and activists who wanted to go together to witness, learn from and make connections with our own history of violence, dispossession and erasure. Our Palestinian delegation in Montgomery left with renewed hope that we too

Orange Crush—or the tact team, as they’re called officially—is the Illinois Department of Correction’s (IDOC) most oppressive armed wing.

If elections are wealthy interests versus voters, the counter to the power of Big Money is to increase voters’ financial power.

This work by Zora Neale Hurston, the famed author of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), has surfaced after over eight decades. It is the autobiography, as transcribed by Hurston, of the life of one of the last persons enslaved in Africa and brought to this country.

The walkout against the district was the first teachers strike in Colorado in nearly a quarter of a century. Garnering the attention of both the state and nation, the action is the first public-sector workers strike in Pueblo since 1977.

Puerto Rico is the latest example of "disaster capitalism." The Financial Board is promoting a pension cut for all public employees, sub-minimun wage jobs for workers under 25, and layoffs of teachers and other public employees.

Internal documents obtained by the Guardian reveal a nationwide drive to persuade union members to quit and stop paying dues.

Downward mobility plus racial resentment is a potent combination with disastrous consequences. We know now that election 2016 is increasingly an open portal into an age-old American dark side of slavery, repression, internment, and know-nothing-ism that couldn't be grimmer. And behind it all, running like an interstate highway through our history, is a powerful sense of white skin privilege that has traditionally extended even to those who were relatively powerless.

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This ethnographic study of America's gun culture focuses on Detroit and Flint, Michigan, and it both confirms and challenges aspects of received wisdom about our country and our firearms.