Under Vincent’s leadership, the National Survivors Union blazed a trail for harm reduction, uplifted sex workers and mothers, and reframed drug use as a human rights issue
Mamdani’s campaign may have accomplished something more fundamental than moving policy debate to the left. It began to democratize the means of electoral production. The campaign put money, technology, and expertise in the service of organized people
Stealing away democracy as midterms approach
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Nome is one of the most expensive towns in America. Six young women there are hoping to get a minimum wage initiative on the November ballot.
In his new book, Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement (Cornell), sociology professor Kim Scipes examines parallel efforts to build two CIO unions in the Midwest—via the Steel Workers and Packinghouse Workers.
How a worker-led coalition won Philadelphia’s POWER Act (the Protect Our Workers, Enforce Rights Act), and how they’re fighting to make it real.
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Florida has not been lost because people stopped caring. Florida has been lost because too many institutions stopped investing, stopped organizing, stopped showing up. You cannot write off a state and be surprised when people feel written off.
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