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On tour at a converted maquiladora that now holds nearly 600 Central Americans.

Our message to the world was clear: Corporate globalization and so-called “free trade” had gone far enough. We were ready to take a stand against the neoliberal agenda, for together we believed another world was possible.

This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety.

Gedakina is a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that works with Native American communities on a range of causes, from promoting literacy to restoring ancestral food systems, including the wild rice harvest.

To rebalance our democracy and economy, a real system of economic checks and balances must exist to ensure that working people have power in their workplaces.

Writing this dispatch from Bolivia, the conflict here is spiraling out of control and I fear it will only get worse.

An Israeli company enabled the hacking of American citizens’ phones – possibly including some belonging to government officials.

How changes to California’s Proposition 13 could reduce inequality.

What if a team of people in recovery from drug addiction were enlisted to teach the pharmaceutical executives what it really means to take responsibility?

In 1969, indigenous activists occupied Alcatraz Island, demanding that their treaties be honored. Fifty years later, they’re still fighting.