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Organizations including the NLG, ACLU and Protect Democracy will ready their legal strategies for the battles in the courts. Finally, the people must mobilize to mount mass actions to ensure the integrity of the election.

Two Essentials for a Bright Future for Health Workers – Fast Track the Right of Healthcare Workers to Unionize and Transition to Medicare for All.

Pro athletes have gone on strike before over economic issues, but these protests are about racial justice. This time Black players, who have talked about their own experiences being racial profiled by police officers, lead the organizing.

Hotel workers around the country have suffered the impacts of the pandemic, and UNITE HERE has been hit particularly hard. David Bacon interviews Anand Singh, President of UNITE HERE Local 2, about the pandemic and future of the union.

This week, we explore the tug of war between protecting union jobs and the transition to a cleaner economy.

After HBO's I May Destroy You, some of us were empowered. Some confronted the people who violated their trust. Some started therapy.

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.

The death of Chilean democracy and inauguration of a reign of terror also turned the country into a ruthless laboratory for neoliberal economics, the same savage capitalism that is being vigorously contested in the United States today.

A White House memo directing an end to the programs said the trainings are “anti-American propaganda” and must stop.

A federal court has ruled in favor of stronger disclosure requirements just in time for the November 2020 elections.