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How Indivisible Is Organizing Rural America

Cara Letofsky Barn Raiser
With the May Day protests, the group shifts tactics ahead of the midterms. With 2,500 chapters nationwide in large cities and rural areas, Indivisible is one of the largest, most effective networks of grassroots resistance in the Trump era...

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New England Unions Lead the Way on Offshore Wind

Paul Prescod Jacobin
Building trades unions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are successfully fighting for offshore wind projects that create good union jobs and revitalize the economy. In the process, they’re showing how to defend clean energy from Donald Trump.

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.
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