Government handouts are designed to help the needy across America, but how many US residents actually reap those benefits? According to a presentation to be delivered in Washington this week, it might be way more than you thought. Republican Party… Read More ›
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The Labor Movement in America
Lawmakers consider dissolving Detroit
With Detroit set to go bankrupt by mid-December, one state legislator has suggested that Michigan’s largest city should be dissolved as a municipality and merge with a neighboring county. State officials have come up with numerous farfetched ideas as to… Read More ›
Free Leonard Peltier!
Nov. 22 will mark 13,439 days of incarceration for Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. This year’s commemoration of the National Day of Mourning, to be held in Plymouth, Mass., will once again honor Peltier, a hero-in-the-struggle who has been unjustly… Read More ›
Wal-Mart Plays Down Labor Protests at Its Stores
Wal-Mart faced not only a throng of shoppers on Black Friday but what a union-backed group said was the biggest wave of protests that the retailer had ever seen, a contention the company disputed. The group, OUR Walmart, said there were protests at… Read More ›
Walmart Workers Gear Up for Black Friday Strike; California Workers Announce Second Strike
By Yana Kunichoff, Truthout Black Friday’s shopping bonanza brings people out to line up in front of stores for hours before it begins. It has trampled people, but not profits for companies that reap a large chunk of their annual sales on the day… Read More ›
Richmond Walmart Workers Demonstrate Inside Store and Then Walk Out
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, November 2, 2012 CONTACT: Jorge Amaro, 202-412 4998, jamaro(at)ufcw.org Joining Nationwide Strikes at Nation’s Largest Retailer, Richmond Walmart Workers Demonstrate Sit-In inside Store, Then Walk Off the Job As Walmart Supercenter Holds Grand Re-Opening, Workers and… Read More ›
How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement
By Libby Anne The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university’s Students for Life chapter. The fall of my junior year of college I cut my ties with the pro-life movement. Five years later… Read More ›
Native Americans ‘slaughtered, sacrificed, fenced in reservations’ in US
The prominent Native American activist Russell Means passed away on Monday. In 2008 he met with RT to talk about the Native Americans withdrawal from the US, their fight for recognition and his unhappiness with US citizenship. At the end… Read More ›
US Homelessness: 1.6 Million Children Are Homeless, Up by 38 Percent Since 2007
By Gilbert Mercier NEWS JUNKIE POST According to a report released today by the National Center on Homelessness, more than 1.6 million children are currently homeless in America. This amounts to one child in 45. It represents a dramatic increase… Read More ›
One million more Americans sign up for food stamps in only a year
The number of Americans going to the government for assistance has once again hit a new high. More than 46 million Americans are now enrolled in the federal welfare food stamps system, more than double the amount from only a… Read More ›
Walmart Black Friday Strike: Workers Threaten To ‘Take Action’ On Retailer’s Busiest Day
By Harry Bradford Employees at 28 Walmarts in 12 different cities walked out of work Tuesday, but things may get a whole lot worse for the biggest retailer in the U.S. come Black Friday. United Food and Commercial Workers’ Making… Read More ›
Why Does the Left Want Prostitution to be ‘a Job Like Any Other’?
The go-to perspective on prostitution from many progressives in Canada these days seems to be a fairly hard and fast vote for decriminalization or legalization. Even many of our beloved East Vancouver lefties seem convinced that the most progressive position… Read More ›
Phoenix Mayor Attempts To Live On A Food Stamp Budget: ‘I’m Tired, And It’s Hard To Focus’
By Travis Waldron When local activist groups challenged Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to live on a food stamp budget for a week to mark Hunger Awareness Month, he took them up on the offer and found out just how hard… Read More ›
Against the illusions of “movement building” for the party of insurrection
We are all familiar with the organizer who organizer who organizes for the sake of organizing, with the politics which prioritizes tactical success in immediate daily work, while paying sterile lip service to an ultimate goal which is hardly taken… Read More ›
Google Is Now Offering Loans to Small Businesses; Yup. They Want to Be A Bank Too
Google is going to take over the world. They are now offering loans up to $10k to businesses that want to invest in their Adwords program; they’re going to launch in the UK first and then branch out in a… Read More ›