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Workers are using direct action to protest dangerous conditions at Amazon warehouses.

WestRock's Mahout Mill members resoundingly rejected this contract, even though it included an unheard-of $28,000 ratification bonus—increased from an already staggering offer of $20,000, which workers already rejected on Sept. 21.

While Columbus Day affirms the story of a nation created by Europeans for Europeans, Indigenous Peoples Day emphasizes Native histories and Native people – an important addition to our ever-evolving understanding of what it means to be American.

The updated definition may help foster a healthier food supply if manufacturers add more vegetables or whole grains to meet criteria or develop products that meet the updated definition; it may help consumers identify healthier food choices.

Fortunately, there is another way―one that major thinkers and even, at times, national governments have promoted. And that is strengthened global governance.

Selectively borrowing Indigenous practices cannot truly address the climate crisis or injustices to Indigenous peoples perpetrated by white settler colonialism.

A new book argues that the Constitution is best understood as a document calling for the unashamed struggle for equality.

"On Tuesday, the U.A.W. said a petition for a union election had been filed by employees at a Nissan plant in Mississippi with more than 6,000 workers. They asked for a vote within a month."

The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was a well-known Cold War era CIA-sponsored organization whose role was to promote an international anti-communist, pro-US cultural policy. This latest study examines the well-funded and influential intellectual periodicals the CCF bankrolled all over the world.

We white radicals have a particular responsibility and crying need to organize as many white people as possible to break from imperialism and to see that their long term interests, as human beings and for a livable future for their children, lie in allying with the rest of humanity.