While the media focus on Trump as posing the central threat to democracy, the drive toward a dictatorship in the country has proceeded rapidly in the last couple of years on Biden’s watch, and mostly at the state level, along with a growing resistance to it.
UAW President Shawn Fain addresses why the expansion of the strike and the growing support globally and nationally in two venues. Workers are fighting to get their fair share at a time when the profits of automakers are soaring. The challenge is where we're going to go as a country.
75,000 people marched on the U.N. headquarters. A demand was for President Biden to “end fossil fuels.” Financial institutions financing fossil fuel projects were targeted with 149 arrests.
New York City municipal retirees are fighting attempts to strip them of their traditional Medicare benefits and push them into a privatized Medicare Advantage plan — a struggle that mirrors similar battles being fought by retirees in cities across the country against the privatization of traditional Medicare.
It has now been over a month since the gruesome incident that caused the death of Christine Chavez, a houseless woman, and there are more questions than answers at this point.
Declaring that “it’s time to stand up for the working class,” UAW President Shawn Fain speaks about the historic “Stand Up Strike” where for the first time the UAW struck all Big Three automakers at once. Worker wages, benefits and quality of life declined for decades, while automakers’ profits have skyrocketed.
The Texas governor bused more than 13,000 migrants to Chicago. Many came without shoes. Chicago women — many who have themselves suffered displacement —are leading aid efforts and unity, with over 200 partnerships. Federal action is demanded.
The attack on what remains of a free press in America is escalating. Defending the First Amendment right to speak and publish is critical to defending and expanding democracy.
Six million people have been stripped of Medicaid coverage in the last several months, creating what one healthcare activist and researcher described as "the largest concentration of health insurance loss in American history." It’s happening in both red and blue states.
This article reposted from the Atlanta Community Press Collective describes the Georgia Attorney General's attempt to stifle free speech by indicting opponents of Cop City in Atlanta.
San Francisco lost its appeal challenging an injunction prohibiting the city from enforcing penal codes such as the ban on sleeping on the streets, as the City has continued to violate unhoused residents’ rights, destroying their property while clearing camps on the streets.
UAW member Sean Crawford gives a Labor Day speech at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Detroit, MI. He addresses labor history, the issues surrounding the upcoming contract and unity.
