The center isn’t holding, and the base isn’t waiting. As Democratic leadership hems and hawws through war, deportation and billionaire rule, a new Left is organizing in the streets, at work and at the ballot box.
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More than 4,000 UAW members at Harvard have been on strike since April 21, demanding pay that keeps up with the cost of living, real recourse for harassment and discrimination, support for non-citizen students and academic freedom protections.
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Reproductive justice does not end with access to abortion. It includes the right to parent, to raise children with dignity and to access the health care, education and child care families need.
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One film follows a deaf mother of five who became a disability rights activist. Another shows an elderly woman teaching children to read with stones and sand.
In Sudan, displaced women are creating resistance cinema from daily life, grief and survival.
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In Michigan, residents fighting a proposed data center are organizing through working groups, monthly meetings, food, child care and a spokescouncil-style structure.
No one is in charge. Everyone is finding a way to help stop it.
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Before NYU faculty withheld their labor, they built power: organizing across depts, refusing administration’s narrower bargaining unit, & bringing students into the fight.
When they struck, many students joined the picket line or refused to attend class.
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Prediction markets are sold as the “wisdom of the crowd.”
But on Polymarket, a Bloomberg analysis found that most profits went to a tiny slice of accounts that looked like automated bots.
Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate.
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As Washington doubles down on oil, gas and coal, Colombia, the Netherlands and dozens of other governments are charting a different course: country-specific transition roadmaps, climate finance and trade reform. https://t.co/XRGIf8KxoF
“Artificial intelligence” is often neither artificial nor intelligent.
In a 2024 conversation with Craig Gent and @james_muldoon_, Sarah Jaffe looked at the workers, supply chains and colonial histories Silicon Valley would rather keep hidden.
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Labor cannot treat fascism as a side issue or a culture-war distraction.
The far right sees unions as an enemy while trying to recruit workers into racist, sexist & xenophobic politics.
@BillFletcherJr argues unions must embrace antifascism to survive.
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“American belligerence as we know it at home is precisely how it’s known abroad.”
In three poems from "It’s Important I Remember," @bardsbesidebars connects struggles against racial caste, imperial violence, apartheid and policing.
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"Generative AI is being used to surveil citizens, violating our right to privacy, and then that is being turned around and used for military purposes. We can see the connection directly to violence."
En un tramo de acera en un corredor industrial de Newark, agentes federales con fusiles, porras metálicas, chalecos antibalas y balaclavas se enfrentaron con activistas desarmados que portaban carteles de cartón y un megáfono. https://t.co/SZ6ivzOJxX
Color of Change focused attention on the case backlogs and restrictive bail amounts, which kept people in the Fulton County Jail before trial.
After public pressure, the jail population fell by 1/3 by the end of 2023, without any new jail capacity.
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Honor the Earth, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation are among the groups challenging the rapid expansion of data centers.
The fight over AI infrastructure is also a fight over land, water and corporate power.
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Prediction markets are expanding the reach of the online casino into nearly every corner of public life.
Behind the hype about innovation is an economy that encourages people to gamble on catastrophe while Wall Street collects the gains.
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