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The global climate strike on Sept. 20. will almost certainly be the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history, writes Bill McKibben. “It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”

Salvador Allende died 46 years ago in a US-backed coup. Here's his final address, broadcast over the radio while he was barricaded in the presidential palace. The generals that overthrew Allende coordinated with the CIA and the U.S. State Department.

A new supergroup — Highwomen — is making music with a mission. They proudly call themselves a movement as much as a band, whose mission is clear: solidarity, specifically with other women in country music. Their debut album came out Friday.

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The prestige of classical music obscures a range of unseemly realizations: arts managers are union-busting bosses like any other. Case in point: the lockout of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra members.

Strikes have become a much weaker tool for unions, while management continues to lock out workers as a way to call the shots at the bargaining table.

This report is from September, 2017 concerning sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy in Australia. Its conclusions are relevant to the recent report on abuse by over 300 priests and the abuse and coverup by the bishops in Pennsylvania.

The fact that even the Mercatus Center couldn't make universal Medicare look bad is a very good sign. Fact checkers need to get a grip.

In Western Massachusetts, the Pioneer Valley Workers Center has created a rapid-response network it calls “Sanctuary in the Streets” (SiS). The worker center, founded in 2014, organizes restaurant workers and farmworkers in the area.

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