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Europe has learned a lesson. Appeasing a bully doesn’t work, especially when, as anyone watching Trump’s Davos rant could see, that bully is experiencing rapid cognitive decline. But standing up to him does work.

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Postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve. “People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package. No one deserves to be treated this way. Letter carriers stand with immigrants, not ICE."

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‘If you are not at the table, you are on the menu’ Carney said the world’s middle powers must unite to resist coercion by aggressive superpowers, warning that traditional assumptions about global order no longer hold.

Bolivia’s new right-wing government was forced to abandon its neoliberal reform package, pushed by executive decree, following the largest mobilization of the nation’s labor movement in at least five years.

Two anonymous WhistleblowerAid.org clients have come forward with evidence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has authorized – and even trained – ICE agents to forcibly enter homes without consent or a judicial warrant.

Friday, Jan. 23 is a National Day of Solidarity and push for corporate accountability led by Minnesota organizers-a statewide day of non-violent action and reflection. No work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and action.

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Labor unions, community leaders and faith groups are calling for an economic blackout in Minnesota on Friday in protest against the surge of federal immigration agents in the state and to mourn Renee Good.