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How Foreign Private Equity Hooked New England’s Fishing Industry

Will Sennott Co-published by The New Bedford Light and ProPublica
Owned by a billionaire Dutch family, Blue Harvest Fisheries has emerged as a dominant force in the lucrative fishing port of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Its business model: benefit from lax antitrust rules and pass costs on to local fishermen.

AIPAC Has Taken Over the Democratic Primary Process

Alexander Sammon The American Prospect
What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul? It’s ultimately toxic for the party leadership to tacitly welcome a group currently endorsing a Republican who compared Democrats to Nazis.

Lumumba’s Politics Are What Really Need To Return

Perry Blankson Tribune Magazine
Belgium has repatriated Patrice Lumumba's gold tooth – his only remains. But there will only be justice when the Congolese win back what was truly killed in 1961: his politics of self-determination.

Laws That Create Countervailing Power

Robert Kuttner The Forge
This article is part of Countervailing Power, a joint series by The American Prospect and The Forge that explores the ways organizers can use public policy to build mass membership organizations to countervail oligarchic power. The series was developed in collaboration with the Working Families Party, the Action Lab, and Social and Economic Justice Leaders.