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December 14, 2019

Morales’ MAS Defines Strategy for Elections and a Solution to the Political Crisis

People's Dispatch

The MAS party stressed the importance of maintaining the unity of all social movements, grassroot organizations, leaders, activists and supporters to achieve the victory of the Bolivian people.

December 14, 2019

We’re Still Waiting for a Trade Deal that Benefits Working People

UE Officers UE

American workers will see no relief from their fears of jobs moving overseas or to lower-wage communities in their own country.

December 14, 2019

Life Under the Algorithm

Gabriel Winant The New Republic

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

December 13, 2019

Why Impeachment Matters, Regardless of the Outcome

Chris Winters Yes! Magazine

So why are we doing this? While it’s highly unlikely Trump will be removed from power before the 2020 election, there are a couple arguments to be made that impeaching him serves a higher purpose, even if the outcome is likely a foregone conclusion

December 13, 2019

when asked why “all lives” don’t matter

MEH Radical Teacher

The poet MEH describes a classroom moment, someone hijacking “communal grief,” and a good teacher’s response.

December 13, 2019

What to Know About Your Rights to Unionize

KAYLEN RALPH Teen Vogue

Hands holding Kickstarter United OPEIU buttons

As more young people find themselves stuck in precarious jobs with variable hours and benefits, some are turning to unions to help secure their rights.

How America Fails Its Whistleblowers

December 13, 2019

Whistleblowers who work with classified information have a few options. All of them are bad.

Man Climbs Over Trump's Border Wall

December 13, 2019

Watch this man overcome President Trump’s border wall using nothing but a rope ladder.

America’s Afghanistan Fiasco

December 13, 2019

The Washington Post releases a staggering report about the war in Afghanistan that shows an alarming lack of strategy, gross mismanagement of funds and a continued pattern of painting the war as successful from Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump. #TheDailyShow

'A Rapist in Your Path': Chilean Protest Song Becomes Feminist Anthem

December 13, 2019

A Chilean protest song about rape culture and victim shaming has become an anthem for feminists around the world