“The company just refuses to hire more workers,” says Flowers-Lewis, “They’d rather work us to death than pay the benefits for more employees.” She has worked at the former Nabisco plant for 21 years and is the first shift steward in the plant.
Figures released by Census Bureau showing drop in poverty rate to 9.1% bolster arguments about effectiveness of state intervention
When Chile’s generals overthrew Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973, Britain’s Tories welcomed the coup as good news for investors. But British trade unions worked to block trade with the newly empowered Chilean fascists.
As we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, U.S. citizens must insist on paying reparations and choose to lay aside the cruel futility of our forever wars.
Book reveals how the jazz musician unwittingly became party to secret cold war manoeuvres by the US in Africa.
Out of 3.4 million farmers working in the United States, fewer than 50,000 are Black...due to historic racial discrimination in federal farm programs — and now efforts to address that history are themselves being attacked as discriminatory.
I feel the burden of having to demonstrate that my ancestral homeland deserves to exist, and that my people are human and multi-faceted, with a rich history and resistance, and deserve the opportunity to thrive.
"Many of us made a major compromise in going from the $6 trillion bill that we wanted" to the proposed $3.5 trillion package, said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The tragic impacts of the September 11 attacks stretch far beyond the nearly three thousand people who lost their lives 20 years ago. Over the last two decades, government forces have trampled on civil rights and liberties in the name of 9/11.
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