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MLK’s Forgotten Call for Economic Justice

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Nation
“Negroes have benefited from a limited change that was emotionally satisfying but materially deficient... Jobs are harder to create than voting rolls.”

Time for AG Garland to Create Corporate Crime Database

Ralph Nader Common Dreams
To properly face the major threats posed by corporate crime, it is important that the Department have more specific and timely ways to measure the incidence and severity of corporate crime.

Bernie Wants Democrats to Fight for the Working Class. They Won’t.

Neal Meyer Jacobin
Bernie Sanders is sounding the alarm: working-class people are fed up with Democrats’ failed strategy of behind-the-scenes negotiations. But the party won’t listen. So Sanders and the Squad should take a more aggressive approach against the Democrat

What Comes After National Liberation Movements?

Imraan Buccus New Frame
History shows that the decline of national liberation movements is inevitable. Without undertaking the political work to build progressive alternatives, moving from one political epoch to another can be a movement from the frying pan into the fire.

Friday Nite Videos | January 14, 2022

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Trump Hangs Up on NPR. David Byrne's American Utopia. Michigan AG Refers Fake Electors to Feds. The Landlord’s Worst Nightmare Could Protect Millions of New Yorkers. Jordan Klepper Runs Into Matt Gaetz.

Sanderistas Inspire Union Drive at Starbucks

Noam Scheiber The New York Times
The liberal workers the company has long attracted are expanding a union campaign to other cities after a landmark victory in Buffalo.