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Vieques is a small Puerto Rican island with some 9,000 inhabitants. For six decades, Vieques served as a bombing range, military training site, and storage depot for the US Navy, until its residents rescued their homeland from the grip of militarism

A wave of workers-first rhetoric is sweeping through pop. Can SAG-AFTRA and the AFM capitalize on it? This clearly poses a challenge to these unions. It’s crucial for these organizations to exploit the growing militancy of their potential membership.

Authors Wei Jia and Project South’s Azadeh Shahshahani explore why the cathedral is being rebuilt by billionaires, but—five years after the water crisis began — Flint still doesn’t have safe water.

Several countries have proposed their own versions of a Green New Deal, but climate change knows no borders. We need a global response.

"Our overall campaign will be much stronger with the protections we were able to win for the workers."

'Truth is, nowadays Uber is little more than a payday loan on wheels.'

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Trump—with Bolton and Pence—seek to provoke a war. These are dangerous men with a dangerous agenda.

Four in 10 workers with employer coverage have trouble paying unexpected medical bills or covering out-of-pocket costs.

Exploitation and predatory pricing drove the transformation of the US beef industry – and created the model for modern agribusiness.