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Organizing efforts to improve workers' rights have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic as workers in industries with little benefits and protections have been deemed essential during the health crisis.

Poet Joe Cottonwood writes about " an underground railroad/of farmworkers" along the coast of California, a sad story with a good ending.

The time has come to take health care off the bargaining table by making it a right for all Americans.

New play, about Reconstruction. This was really a turning point in US history when America almost did the right thing. The South was writing new state constitutions and African Americans were getting elected to local and national offices.

Last week Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement, was denied entry to the US. Barghouti, who has suffered numerous Israeli travel restrictions, charged Israel is now outsourcing its anti-BDS repressive measures to the Trump administration.

The estimated cost for the project below doubled and now stands at $27 billion, which Georgia Power customers are already paying for thanks to a state law — since overturned — that allowed utilities to collect payment before a project is completed.

All candidates for political office in 2020 must speak to the issues of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans for a terrible injustice continues unabated.

There is a noon darkness in Rome these days. And I’m not talking about the sudden spell of winter weather.