Amazon’s attempts to contest an election from last April where workers at the Staten Island JFK8 warehouse voted to unionize have failed.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
How capitalist individualism de-radicalized contemporary art
Author and artist Janet Sarbanes examines the meanings and potential of autonomy as a political concept in her book, ‘Letters on the Autonomy Project.’
Posted inRattling the Bars
Exclusive interview from prison: Carla J. Simmons on what an inhumane carceral system does to human psyches
“If society upholds the pretense that jails and prisons act as a rehabilitative service, we must consider what condition these people will be in when they re-enter society.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Greek workers resist soaring energy prices from EU-imposed privatization and Ukraine War
Greece ranks 19th out of 26 EU nations in terms of wages, yet has the highest energy prices in the union.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Palestinian worker says UN refugee agency is retaliating against him for leading strike
A Palestinian worker for UNRWA in the West Bank is accusing the agency of retaliating against him for leading a strike for better pay.
Posted inThe Chris Hedges Report
WikiLeaks exposed the extent of US meddling abroad and corruption at home. Why have we forgotten it?
From backroom deals between Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs to US covert operations in Haiti, Tunisia, Italy and beyond, WikiLeaks revealed the dark underbelly of US power.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Berlin’s pledge to socialize a quarter million apartments in danger of being nullified
Berlin won a huge victory for tenants but real estate companies have fought back; will the bizarre “redo” election speed up socialization?
Posted inPolice Accountability Report
Cops discovered he was filing a complaint against them, then they struck back
A Georgia man tried to file a complaint against law enforcement in Bullock, GA, for the treatment he received in jail, but found himself in handcuffs instead.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
Shattering the myth of Rosa Parks reveals the civil rights movement’s true history
Rosa Parks’s decades of activist experience have been overshadowed by a selective history of the civil rights movement that ignores its roots in a longer, protracted struggle for justice.
Posted inClimate Crisis
Utility companies’ consistent failures and shady practices show why we need energy democracy
Around the country, corporate utility giants like DTE in Michigan are leaving communities vulnerable while impeding progress on decarbonization—and that’s exactly why a transition to community-owned utilities must happen.