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The Stain Mardi Gras Covers Up: Worker Vulnerability in New Orleans

Sarah Fouts and Deniz Daser NACLA
The collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans.
New Orleans residents and tourists took to the streets to celebrate Mardi Gras and the cultural heritage that ensures a steady stream of tourism dollars. Forgotten were the criminal negligence of the powerful and the sacrifices of low-wage workers.

The US - Taliban Deal

Jon Queally Common Dreams
The agreement, warned Rep. Barbara Lee, "leaves thousands of troops in Afghanistan and lacks the critical investments in peacebuilding, human-centered development, or governance reform needed to rebuild Afghan society."

Morir Soñando

Martín Espada Rattle
“This poem is an elegy for a dear friend and mentor, Luis Garden Acosta,” writes Martin Espada, whose “activism…changed his community in Brooklyn [and] the lives of untold thousands like me.”

Kickstarter Employees Vote to Unionize in a Big Step for Tech

Kate Conger and Noam Scheiber The New York Times
Hands holding a Kickstarter United button
Engineers and others at the crowdfunding platform voted narrowly to form a union, one of the first tech companies to do so. “The tech sector represents a new frontier for union organizing,” Richard Lanigan, the union’s president, said in a statement.