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In its first week, the strike drew support from colleagues in the labor movement. Some deliveries of supplies were halted when UPS workers refused to cross the picket line. Construction workers at Harvard Medical School stopped working on a facade.

The FX network TV drama, Pose, dramatizes New York City's 1980-1990s black and Latino LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming ballroom culture scene. This book, on the ballroom culture in Detroit, describes a community of affirmation and resistance.

Protesters with Fridays for Future demand world leaders at the global climate summit urgently address the planetary emergency.

"Once again, it's the mismatch between the debt and the borrower's income, their ability to repay."

There was a time in America when being called a socialist could end a political career. Not anymore.

The Appellate Body’s paralysis risks creating a system of economic relations based on power rather than rules.

COP25 / UK Election / Palestine / France / Uruguay / Iraq / Colombia / India

While prisoners refuse to perform their jobs, some guards are not showing up to work.

This fresh look at the 1971 Attica, New York prison uprising, which was brutally repressed by then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller, is not just a history. It is an intervention into contemporary debates about the U.S. prison system.

Trump's comment about Alicia Machado was not only a sexist slur against Latinas but also an attack on the the many millions of individuals who work at low paid jobs.