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Chicago Teachers Get a Tentative Agreement

Alan Maass and Lee Sustar Socialist Worker
Did Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blink? A report on what we know about a tentative deal that headed off the second teachers' strike in four years.

What We Can Still Learn From Sexual Harassment

Anita Hill The Boston Globe
What I learned in 1991 is no less true today and no less important for people to understand: responses to sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence must start with a belief that women matter as much as the powerful men they encounter at work or at school, whether those men are bosses or professors, colleagues or fellow students.

DNA Tests May Shed New Light on Food Fraud

Kevin T. Higgins Food Processing Magazine
DNA bar-coding that quickly confirms or reject claims that a food product is what it purports to be are entering the market, with the promise of exposing economically motivated fraud.

Recovery Efforts Begin in Baracoa, Cuba

Granma Granma
Brigades from different sectors are arriving in Baracoa to reestablish basic services and begin recovery efforts. The bridge over the River Toa is one of many structures affected by the hurricane, with only 50 of the 200 foot construction remaining.

Intersecting Criminalization: What Killed Ugandan Refugee Alfred Olango

Michelle Chen Truthout
To flee from a war zone, only to be met with a fatal police bullet on the other side of the world: It's an uncomfortable, truncated narrative of an abbreviated life. This was how Alfred Olango's life concluded late last month, at the intersection of many forces of violence that converged at a San Diego suburb, in a scene that braided strands of war, policing, race and migration.

Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline!

Showing Up for Racial Justice Showing Up for Racial Justice
Today Monday the nation celebrates a federal holiday known to many as "Columbus Day." While many across the country know this holiday as a day off of work, a growing number of us understand that it is just one of many ways that the federal government continues to oppress indigenous people in this country.