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Margy Wilkinson participated in the Free Speech Movement, helped secure a contract for UC Berkeley classified workers, led KPFA and fought to preserve the character of South Berkeley.

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I often used to look at the union work as something like walking a tightrope backwards while juggling without a net … The wire must be made of grassroots. The moment the union highwire artist feels those grassroots under foot, they know they are safe

We work together as a union to attack racism because racism hurts working people. It hurts our members who are targeted by it and it hurts our members who perpetuate it or ignore it.

After more than a decade of fighting for the right to bargain for better pay, California child care providers have started voting on whether to unionize.

Intentional voter suppression and unintentional suppression of the vote will collide in November.

If federal unemployment benefits are not extended when they expire next month, millions of households will be facing both steep rent and unemployment with no assistance. And that means mass evictions.

"The Palestinian struggle today is not just about fighting annexation, which we must continue to do. It is about dismantling the entire system of apartheid."

Many citizens appalled by Donald Trump’s handling of coronavirus crisis, study finds

In this essay, Tim Whitmarsh challenges what most of us were taught, and what we think we know, about the Ancient world and the idea of "race."