James Raines
LATEST ARTICLES BY James Raines
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U.S.
Ferguson protesters retrace steps of history and forge new ones
December 16, 2014They've built a new social and economic justice movement on the foundation left by those who struggled before them.
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Labor
Black Friday at Walmart: Poverty wages keep prices low
December 8, 2014As Black Friday marked the start of this year's shopping season, unionists reflected on what they would get workers this year if they could get them anything in the world.
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U.S.
St. Louis protesters demand justice for VonDerrit Meyers
November 24, 2014Some 100 protesters congregated on Shaw Ave. here near the spot where 18-year-old VonDerrit Myers was killed by off-duty police officer Jason Flanery.
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World
Secret tribunals part of “Trojan Horse” Trans-Pacific trade deal
November 21, 2014The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a free trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 Asian and Pacific countries that few people have heard of.
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U.S.
Some say “too late,” others see hope in Ferguson Commission
November 20, 2014While some in the community here see the formation of a 16-member Ferguson Commission as "too little, too late" others see it as cause for some hope.
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Labor
Wave of Black Friday protests expected to flood Walmarts next week
November 18, 2014The national wave of protests, which could be the biggest yet to hit the giant retailer outlets, comes on the heels last week of the first sit down strikes in Walmart's history.
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U.S.
“Workers’ rights same as civil rights,” says actor and activist Danny Glover
July 1, 2014"Well first of all, I have been involved with issues about labor for a great deal of my life, I come out of a union family and my mother and my father were very much involved...
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Labor
From Freedom Summer to Mississippi Nissan plant: “We got the power”
June 30, 2014The event was about more than pay - the workers live in constant fear; "Once you step into that plant, you cannot speak your mind."
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