William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger
TomDispatch
A careful look at the real totals of U.S. defense expenditures from a May 2019 article from Tom Dispatch. Let's keep this in mind when some politicians say we can't afford to fund public education and Medicare for All, for example.
The Canadian union Unifor is currently blockading an oil refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan. It’s an important example of what democratic, militant, and solidarity-based unionism can look like.
"We need millions of young people along with allies of all ages to join climate strikes, organize their communities and then turn out in force in November to decide this election."
Over months of contract bargaining, Harvard reached common ground with the union on some issues. But over the course of a recent strike, the university began to lash out in punitive and ominous ways.
The socialist island outperforms advanced capitalist countries including Britain and the United States, which has subjected Cuba to a punitive six-decades-long economic blockade.
The idea of MOFAD is to lead people to learn something about food that they didn't know or to inspire them to think deeper about the things that they're putting into their body, or to consider how foods and drinks get to their tables.
OCHA has found that children are working amid “an increasingly destabilized economy” in Gaza, which has been under an Israeli siege for more than 12 years.
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