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Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect

AFL-CIO The Stand
AFL-CIO report finds that workers of color are dying on the job at increasingly higher rates. Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 15 years. Latino workers continue to face the greatest risk of dying on the job.

We Need an Exodus From Zionism

Naomi Klein The Guardian
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

Abortion Rights After Dobbs: The State of the Struggle

Johanna Brenner Against the Current
The white, nationalist, evangelical conservative movement and the Republican Party targeted women's control over their reproductive life: they have reaped a political whirlwind.

Chandler Davis: Dissent and Solidarity

David Palumbo-Liu Against the Current
Davis viewed his confrontation with HUAC and the University of Michigan as an opportunity. He willingly risked both his freedom and his career to expose and perhaps even put an end to the establishment’s willingness to quash left political dissent.
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