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Angela Davis: ""We recognize that we are collective agents of history and that history cannot be deleted like web pages."

As we build a movement to thwart Trump and win genuine social change, the activist life of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is instructive.

What our communities need so intensely right now are real examples of a vision for a new culture and society, right in their own neighborhoods. They need to be able to touch and feel and experience them and also experience building them as participants in our democracy.

DOJ lawyers look to adjourn a hearing next week, and some expect them to wind up abandoning their argument that the Texas voter ID law discriminates against minorities.

New paper makes the case that a global billionaire tax is ethical, good for growth, and could solve a lot of the world’s problems. Oh and politically viable.

Republican lawmakers have quietly laid the foundation for the bargain basement transfer of Americans’ birthright, 640 million acres of national land, to private hands, notably oil, mining, and development interests. In a single line of changes to the rules for the House of Representatives, Republicans have stealthily eased the path to disposing of federal property, even if doing so loses money for the government and provides no demonstrable compensation to U.S. citizens.

Time and again workers mention the same issue as to why they abandoned the Democrats: NAFTA. Feltner says, “The NAFTA bill is still fresh in people’s minds. The international was all, ‘Vote Democrat, Democrat, Democrat.’ Then they make an announcement about jobs going away and it’s because of NAFTA. The workers connect that to the Democrats, and Hillary was saddled with that.”

Using 'quiet title and partition' billionaire attempts to complete his beachfront property

Women and other groups were demonstrating all over the world Saturday, following Trump's dark inauguration speech and executive order on healthcare

Moderators note: In North Carolina it is illegal for a public employee union to bargain or negotiate a contract with the workers employer.