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PG&E: Don’t Break it Up. Take it Over

Johanna Bozuwa Common Dreams
The potential bankruptcy of the California utility whose negligence likely plays a role in California’s wildfires is an opportunity for the public to gain control of the state’s energy destiny

Forget Elections—Labor Needs To Get Back to Its Roots

Tom Lewandowski In These Times
Social organizing, (not elections) built the labor movement. When 19th-century American workers had virtually no institutional or political voice or power, they developed both by caring about and for each other.

What White Supremacists Know

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Boston Review
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

The Election Within the Election

Kurt Stand The Stansbury Forum
Only by firmly linking democracy and civil liberties to concrete programs of social and economic justice can working-class unity be built.

A National Abolitionist Victory for Public Health!

Critical Resistance Critical Resistance
banner and demonstrators for end of police violence "The passage of this statement and the recognition of policing as violence is a huge victory against racism and classism in this professional field. Our goal is for this work to be used to further organizing, research, and education..."
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