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There is no more important time for creative people in Hollywood to say NO and join the wider cultural boycott. California is one of 26 states to pass measures penalizing certain BDS activities, including blacklisiting contractors who boycott Israel.

If Kickstarter became a union company, it would be the first of the major tech companies to do so. The company has a chance to show which side it’s really on.

“I’m here to stand with every one of the people who stand for our children every day.” Elizabeth Warren told the strikers. So far, no 2020 candidate has publicly expressed support for Mayor Lightfoot in the labor dispute.

Donald Trump says we’re witnessing a lynching. A lynching isn’t something you can win. Emmett Till was lynched. He was 14 years old.

The four parties that do offer climate action plans (of varying seriousness) collected almost 65 percent of the vote.

“Over 18 years, the United States has spent $4.9 trillion on wars, with only more intractable violence in the Middle East and beyond to show for it,” points out Koshgarian.

There has been a growing movement of grassroots state power building independent political organizations (IPOs). Drawing lessons directly from this experience, the authors share three specific state-based strategies for organizers and activists.

Some of the South’s most prominent Black mayors, in four states with the earliest and most competitive primaries, are telling presidential candidates seeking endorsements that they’ll first have to show how they plan to invest in their communities.

UCLA Labor Center study finds county relies on laborers – largely people of color – threatened with debts and jail to do work that would otherwise be paid.