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D.C. activists hoping to jump-start organizing among the unemployed

July 23, 2020 By Sean Sullivan

The Claudia Jones School for Political Education recently hosted an Unemployment and Tenant Organizing Town Hall for residents in the D.C.-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area.

In provocative move, Trump orders shutdown of Chinese consulate in Houston

July 22, 2020 By Álvaro Rodriguez

This shutdown, along with other provocative actions, must be seen in the context of U.S. imperial strategy against China and the November presidential elections.

Arizona’s first-ever nurses’ union contract signed in Tucson

July 22, 2020 By Joe Bernick

It took 18 months of negotiations, including a one-day strike a year later, before an agreement was finally reached with the employers.

Bringing empty shoes to honor the dead, nurses descend on Capitol

July 22, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

As pandemic worsens across America they lobby for protective gear and launch new push for unionizing more of their heroic colleagues.

People of color face mass homelessness as eviction moratoriums end

July 22, 2020 By Center for Public Integrity

Black and brown Americans—the very people who are more likely to succumb to coronavirus or lose their jobs because of it—are disproportionately on the brink of also losing the four walls that public health officials have...