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On behalf of a growing movement of 10 million, we ask Democratic leadership to be bold in standing up for democracy. We agree with Speaker Pelosi: We are in a constitutional crisis. And there is a remedy: Start impeachment hearings now.

Vieques is a small Puerto Rican island with some 9,000 inhabitants. For six decades, Vieques served as a bombing range, military training site, and storage depot for the US Navy, until its residents rescued their homeland from the grip of militarism

A wave of workers-first rhetoric is sweeping through pop. Can SAG-AFTRA and the AFM capitalize on it? This clearly poses a challenge to these unions. It’s crucial for these organizations to exploit the growing militancy of their potential membership.

Authors Wei Jia and Project South’s Azadeh Shahshahani explore why the cathedral is being rebuilt by billionaires, but—five years after the water crisis began — Flint still doesn’t have safe water.

To build a just and inclusive movement to fight climate change and overcome past environmental classism, we need empathy, shared values, and organizing. This is what the Green New Deal promotes.

The courtesan in literature is an object of desire, but prostitutes of any gender are despised in law and in the popular culture. The book and film under review excoriate the reactionary hypocrisy and chart sex workers fighting back.

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Several countries have proposed their own versions of a Green New Deal, but climate change knows no borders. We need a global response.

"Our overall campaign will be much stronger with the protections we were able to win for the workers."

'Truth is, nowadays Uber is little more than a payday loan on wheels.'