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Everybody Hates Data Centers
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (542+ words) Indigenous people are resisting continued attempts to exploit their land, air, and water. Rural white folks, some of whom voted for Donald Trump, are now going door to door, outraged about rising electricity costs and water'shortages. "There's this big techno-feudal…...
Shaping Up To Be a Clean Sweep": Bernie Sanders-Endorsed Candidates Prevail in Primaries
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (257+ words) Progressive candidates endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders swept to victory on Tuesday in Democratic primaries across the'US. Sanders-backed candidates in California also put in strong showings, with former San Francisco city supervisor Jane Kim advancing to the general election in…...
If We Can Intifada the Poems. ..
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (577+ words) These poems come from my forthcoming collection, When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America, a'book produced by Palestinian grief and anticolonial resistance, in this genocidal'moment.' While poetry cannot materially save us, it can become a'vessel through which one arrives at…...
May Day and the Potency of Solidarity Against Division
1+ week, 6+ day ago (328+ words) The May Day holiday is rooted in the history of collective worker action. But it's grown into much'more.' May Day also represents a'fight for a'different vision of society, one in which working people strip power away from the ultra-rich who…...
Baristas, Billionaires, and (Alec) Baldwin
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1103+ words) In 2021, workers in Buffalo, New York made history by becoming the first Starbucks store in the United States to form a'union. Five years later, and after a "the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in the modern history of…...
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi, a Working-Class Hero
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1150+ words) In 1948, the radical sociologist C. Wright Mills published a'book called The New Men of Power, which examined the careers of post-war labor leaders who emerged from industrial union struggles in the 1930s. At the time, the author was hopeful that labor's progressive…...
Trump's Latest Target: Coal Miners' Safety
3+ week, 5+ day ago (248+ words) But it appears that seeing thousands of the unelected civilians whose labor makes the government run lose their jobs wasn't enough to slake Trump administration officials' thirst for punishment'they're just being quieter about it now. The headlines may have moved…...
Notes on Our Connected Crusades for Liberation
4+ week, 9+ hour ago (364+ words) Three poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston's new collection, "It's Important I Remember." Notes on Our Connected Crusades for Liberation Three poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston's new collection, "It's Important I Remember." As I compose this note, we are four months…...
While the U. S. Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels, Other Countries Are Charting a Path Away From Them
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (421+ words) Under the Trump administration, the U. S. government has been hell-bent on enriching the fossil fuel industry at the expense of humanity. But elsewhere, the fight for a'fossil fuel-free future has broken new'ground. In late April, dozens of world governments'led by Colombia…...
A Dream Deferred for the Jackson Faction
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (204+ words) Jesse Jackson's politics of inclusion, an ongoing project, was spurred by his ascent to two candidacies for the Democratic presidential ticket. A Dream Deferred for the Jackson Faction Jesse Jackson's politics of inclusion, an ongoing project, was spurred by his…...