Topic: Labor / Economics
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The solidarity ecosystems of occupied factories
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At first glance it is a factory: heavy machinery, crates, palettes, industrial barrels and men doing manual labor. Little catches the eye, except maybe the homemade banners hanging up around the warehouse. They’re in Greek, so you might not be able to read them, but you can tell these are not the stock decorations from the…
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Women’s cooperatives: A glimpse into Rojava’s economic model
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Zahra Shexo bends over her sewing machine and meticulously, but expertly allows the course material to run through her fingers and under the pointed needle of the machine. The sound of over a dozen women’s laughter and conversation intermixes with the repetitive mechanical sounds of the sewing machines in the large room. The sewing room…
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Interviews for Resistance: Why Teachers Unions Are the Best Bet To Transform the Labor Movement
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Public schools have been a bipartisan battleground for years now, with teachers unions taking attacks from elected officials at all levels as part of a broader movement to “improve” education by handing control over to private companies. Donald Trump's nominee to run the education department, Betsy DeVos, is a stalwart of this privatization drive, never…
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Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
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Labor Network for Sustainability As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline. By this summer nearly 200 tribes around the country had passed resolutions opposing the pipeline and many hundreds of their members…
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The Italian Banking Crisis: No Free Lunch – Or Is There?
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Ellen Brown examines the Italian banking crisis in a political context and makes some suggestions on how the Italian people could respond in ways that won't punish smaller depositors.
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Reflections On The Apocalypse
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The economic changes that led to Trump's election began over 30 years ago.
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What Happened to the Pink Tide?
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When the “pink tide” of left-leaning governments first rose to power on the back of anti-neoliberal protests across Latin America in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the initial reaction from the Left was euphoric. Striving to move beyond the “there is no alternative” mantra, many pinned their hopes on what seemed to be a…
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Why Bolivian Workers Are Marching Against Evo Morales
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The shutdown of Bolivia’s state-run textile company calls into question the alliance between President Evo Morales and the Bolivian Workers Central at a crucial political and economic juncture.
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Congress Must Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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(The TPP from the point of view of a Wisconsin organic dairy/beef farmer. Short and to-the-point.) Trade is good, but “Free Trade” doesn’t work for farmersor workers or most everyone else. Free trade does, however,work spectacularly well for corporations…
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Is Water Pollution Trading Coming to the Midwest?
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Pollution is a bad thing, right? Isn’t the ultimate goal of the 1972 Clean Water Act to make all water in the U.S. swimmable, fishable, and drinkable – as it once was? Well, think again… If you are a capitalist entrepreneur who believes, to paraphrase Reagan, in the “magic of the market place” then a…