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Do we need prisons? Abolitionists ask us to think about that
February 13, 2018“Prisons do not disappear social problems,” says world-renowned activist Angela Davis, “they disappear human beings."
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Is there a cure for the cancer of Trumpism?
February 12, 2018“There is a cancer on the Presidency,” John Dean famously told Richard Nixon in the throes of the Watergate crisis. The same can be said today.
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Capitalism breeds and feeds Black oppression
February 9, 2018"The struggle of the Negro people for integration in the economic, political, and social affairs of the nation on the basis of full equality with all other Americans is a struggle to enlarge democracy in the...
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Union organizing is a gender justice issue
February 8, 2018Will the Democrats stick with labor law reform this time around? For women workers’ sake, let’s hope so.
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Trump’s tax cuts will widen the racial wage gap
February 7, 2018Trump is not to blame for this disparity, just as he is not be given credit for currently low unemployment rates. The question is what will the administration do going forward?
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