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How a Texan holiday became a national tradition.

In an interview, Alexa Aviles discusses her history of education organizing, recent billionaire-funded scaremongering attacks against her, and why she’s running for City Council from South Brooklyn as part of a citywide socialist slate.

With Living In Data, Jer Thorp demonstrates the importance of enabling people to participate in the process of creating and telling the stories behind data.

What made the strike successful were two factors: collective action under common goals and the willingness for immigrants, especially women, to be unapologetically vocal about their concerns. Its lessons about racism and justice are still relevant.

When popular struggles defy borders and demand statehood, and left views on the Palestine crisis

The U.S. “national security” budget is still the third rail of politics in this country.

Most Democrats in Congress are now locked into a modern Cold War mentality that endangers human survival.

If the hyperbolic claims are to be believed, American workers are luxuriating in the largesse of taxpayer-funded payments, thumbing their noses at the benevolent and generous employers who are struggling to fill job vacancies.

“It’s been quite the roller coaster of a historical period to be having an organization called ‘Rights & Democracy,’” James Haslam said.

“This is a classic example of disaster capitalism,” says Arturo Massol-Deyá, executive director of Casa Pueblo, a community-based natural resources conservation and sustainable development group.