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If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time but if you have come here because you believe that your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together. -- Lila Watson

The story of Irish-American draft resisters, African-Americans who defied the odds in order to fight, and women who found alternate ways to support the war.

These trailblazers are heading to Washington to advance a bold social and economic justice agenda, with a strong focus on reversing inequality.

If Democrats retake one or both houses of Congress in November, it will be largely because of this emerging national network of progressive organizers. But winning the midterms is just the first step in a movement designed to rebuild and transform.

My tendency as a labor historian has always been to look at life beyond the workplace. Life taught me that working people are multi-dimensional. They care about many things in addition to work and unions, they bring multiple concerns and aspirations.

Reader Comments: Germany Rallies Against Racism; Voting as a Very Political Act; Women and Kavanaugh; Arming Saudi Arabia; Brazil; Korea; Cuba; Automation; Housing; McCarthy Blacklist; Charles White Exhibit; Resources; Announcements; and more....

Female prison inmates are being disciplined at much higher rates than men for lower-level offenses in many states.

White women are as likely to believe Kavanaugh as they are Christine Blasey Ford, polls have found, continuing a long pattern of voting Republican.

Reader Comments: Debbie Ramirez Statement; Four Million Raised for Collins Opponent; High School Slang According to Kavanaugh; Van Dyke Verdict and CPAC; Housing; Trump Latest - Pay to Protest; Military-Industrial Complex; Announcements; and more....

Italian professor’s presentation deemed ‘unacceptable’ by Geneva research centre