Their tactics to force construction of data centers even against significant opposition from local communities have become increasingly forceful and hostile.
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Workers Unite! After Decades of Decline, Union Power Is Back
Widening income inequality is closely tied to today's rise of unionization in the United States.
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Socialists Need To Fight For Economic Change — Not Just Another Version Of Capitalism
Broadly felt problems with capitalism – rising inequality, stagnating wages and severe instability – have led to major global political and cultural shifts. But what does socialism actually mean?
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Letter From NYU: Why Christine Blasey Ford Wanted Her Story to Stay Private
In the #MeToo era, why does it remain so difficult for women to go public with stories of sexual assault. These three women at NYU explain and share their traumas.
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Hundreds Of Yale Students Protest Kavanaugh, Demand Investigation
The elite law school canceled 31 classes to help facilitate protests on campus and in Washington, D.C.
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Cancel Kavanaugh: Nationwide Walkout Monday for Sexual Assault Survivors
Thousands across the country have pledged to walk out of their workplaces and schools on Monday at 1:00pm EST.
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Occupy Satire: American Success Stories 2018
Check out these uplifting tales in an age of diminished expectations.
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Rebel Cities 13: Porto Alegre In Brazil Shows How Participatory Budgeting Works
Citizen control of spending decisions means communities decide what their city does and does not do with public funds. For 30 years the process has worked in Brazil, and now it's spreading rapidly.
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Greece's Painful Decade: Out of the Bailout, But Not Out of the Woods
Poverty, privatizations, debt – in Greece, which just officially "ended" its bailout program, the silent majority can't let go their fear that this might just be the prelude to something worse yet to come.
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An Inside Account of the National Prisoners’ Strike
Wages for incarcerated workers are typically cents per hour, and several states—Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, and South Carolina—use prisoner labor without paying them at all.
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On the 7th Anniversary: The Influence and Irony of Occupy Wall Street
How a movement that eschewed electoral politics is now showing up everywhere in the 2018 progressive resurgence.
