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Every walkout, every outstretched hand, every word written or spoken in defense of workers' rights, is a victory—whether it results in immediate and obvious success or not.

AI can be terrifying when used in horrible ways.

Psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses and chemical dependency counselors, who provide care at seven clinics and a call center on Oʻahu, Maui and the Hawaiʻi Island are on strike. They have joined striking healthcare workers in California.

Every walkout, every outstretched hand, every word written or spoken in defense of workers' rights, is a victory—whether it results in immediate and obvious success or not.

The European Union’s power sector is an example of what market fundamentalism has done to electricity networks. With the end of cheap natural gas, retail consumers and businesses are paying the price for their governments’ embrace of a shoddy theory.

With 96% of the ballots counted, the rejection camp has 62% and the approve team accept defeat in bid to replace Pinochet-era settlement

Ben & Jerry's is know for its outspoken advocacy on issues ranging from climate change to economic inequalityn and also for expressing its social values in the form of limited-edition frozen desserts.

Since the initial victory in Buffalo, workers at several other Starbucks stores throughout the country have filed for union elections, including in Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Knoxville, Tenn.

The most promising course of action for human survival might well lie in a mobilization to compel the nuclear nations to accept the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to accept a restrained role in a cooperatively-governed world.

It is a disgraceful legacy that we cannot afford to pass on to future generations.