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No Wheat, Milk, Rice, Medicines: How the U.S. and Israel Are Starving Yemen
The Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already ...
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The Cost Of Salt
India’s salt-production industry has seen massive growth over the past 75 years, but the working conditions of the country’s ...
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Two Tenant Unions, One Rent Strike
Most of the milestones of Anay Herrera’s adult life have taken place within walking distance of the apartment complex in Chicago’s Buena Park neighborhood where she’s lived for more than two ...
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Chicago’s Push for “Just Cause” Evictions
According to the available data, Chicago landlords file an average of more than 22, 500 eviction cases against tenants each ...
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A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...
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Two Years After Electing a Mayor, Chicago’s Left Keeps Contesting for Power
Movement-backed Mayor Brandon Johnson and a record class of progressive alders took office exactly two years ago. I spoke ...
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Forget America First—Under Trump, It's Corporations First
Big corporations donated heavily to Trump’s inaugural fund. Just a few months later, federal cases against them are being ...
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The Best Protection For Students Is a Mass Movement
On March 20, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) hosted a conversation with Cornell University student and pro-Palestinian activist Momodou Taal. Less than a week prior, Taal had filed a lawsuit ...