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The events that led to the murders of Jara and Quiroga began with their detentions after the military coup and “were decided by the administrative authorities without any court order and under no case/proceeding.”

Workers at the Union Electric Steel plant in Valparaiso ended their strike after securing raises in a new four-year contract.

“A country where our environment is protected, where we look after the most vulnerable, where we support our families, where we make sure people have the most basic of needs, like a roof over their head.”

If the Roe v. Wade decision were overturned – reducing or completely eradicating women’s control over their reproductive lives – would the average age at marriage, the educational attainment level and the labor force participation of women decrease?

He has a strong record of ruling against regulations, notably environmental ones. His position opposing gun control goes significantly beyond an embrace of the Court’s controversial ruling, and he was against allowing an abortion to an undoc. minor.

“I have spent my whole life working to alleviate the human suffering that is occurring around the country – from the coalfields of Appalachia to the frontier communities of New Mexico - your policies would increase and perpetuate their suffering."

How Disney got Fox; Berners-Lee opines; Brooklyn broadcasts; Cheated again; Sinclair makes lying mandatory; Microsoft on ICE; Ed Schultz remembered

From his debut film about the ‘criminally insane’ to Ex Libris, his latest documentary on the New York Public Library, the award-winning octogenarian is as committed to fighting injustice as ever – especially in the era of Trump.

Socialist New York State Senate candidate Julia Salazar on electoral politics, the Democratic Party, and why strikes matter.

What does it mean for two powers to face off, both of whom stand a significant chance of seeing some of their major coastal cities flooded and destroyed in the century or less to come?