Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith
Common Dreams
From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. What we are witnessing in the Caribbean and elsewhere today has been years in the making. Who will put a stop to it?
As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the name of one fawning luminary after another, there is a collective whisper of “How could they?” How could such eminent people, belonging to such prestigious institutions, succumb to this?
Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions. The ongoing barista strike also represents something much broader: a pitched battle against an executive and governance regime interlocked with a wider network of corporate power
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The labor organizer at the core of the Starbucks Workers United campaign wants a braver labor movement. Their new book is titled "Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World."
We are rural demographers who study the causes and consequences of well-being in rural America. Here we outline six myths about rural America highlighted in our recent book “Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities.”
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