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Alexis Rizzo was one of the first members of Starbucks Workers United; she was recently fired in retaliation, but her fight isn’t over yet.

Last Thursday, the Supremes ruled against a union of cement-mixer drivers—but their very odd decision could have been lots worse for American workers.

For about 14 hours, residents again and again took to the podium to slam the project, saying it would be a gross misuse of public funds to build the huge facility in a large urban forest in a poor, majority-Black area.

America’s billionaires pay an average of around 3.1 percent as their functional income tax rate; America is the most unequal developed society in the world. The last time severe poverty and extravagant wealth coexisted was during the 1920s and 1930s.

The number of mass shootings continues to soar in the US — not just costing lives, but traumatizing our youth and undermining the basis for a free society. To stop the epidemic, we need a truly democratic transformation...

Moving forward, facing violent opposition

I sincerely plead with my colleagues, to surrender the artificial constructs that measure achievement and greet the children where they are, not where we think they “should be.”

Born in Brooklyn in 1947, the oldest son of folk icon Woody Guthrie and professional dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, Arlo grew up surrounded by folk legends — Pete Seeger, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, to name a few.

The image of a white woman calling police on Black people put the lie to the myth of racial innocence

The ideological argument over the future of Israel-Palestine disguises the fact that for the past decade we have been living in a one-state reality.