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They ultimately decided that achieving the group’s purpose (meeting the needs of their base), required them to hold each other with both compassion and rigor. Accountability was actually a requirement on the path to power and transformation.

Biden’s administration and the Democrat-led Congress are funneling the lion’s share of taxpayer money for “alternatives to detention” into an existing for-profit surveillance program — while spending little on community services.

Unions need to work with social agencies to set up confidential mental health services for members. Workers have been facing extra stress at work and they don't usually trust employer run programs.

Jeff Bezos may be going to the moon soon, but down here on terra firma unions are trying to organize and protect Amazon workers, and we seem to be the ones lost in space.

HBO’s brilliant The White Lotus reminds us that class society permeates everywhere, even on a tropical island — something that US television traditionally does its best to hide.

Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a law making it a felony to reenter the US after being deported. Now a judge has found it too racist to be allowed.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, [into Afghanistan] I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." -- Zbigniew Brzezinski

The roots of the modern US right lie in the California fields of the 1930s, where large growers ferociously resisted farmworker organizing. It’s a reminder that opposing working-class power has been central to the US right from the very beginning.

Herbicides are losing the war — and agriculture might never be the same again.

Assessing the Threats Climate Change Poses to Outdoor Workers