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  1. Trade Expert: Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped
    1 Jan 2014 … Global Trade Watch's Lori Wallach says that none of the promises that were used to sell NAFTA have come to fruition, and they're being repeated for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Continue reading
  2. Social Democracy Is 100-Percent American Ladies Tailors Strike
    7 Jul 2015 … On this Fourth of July weekend, anyone who thinks social democracy is un-American doesn't know their history. Continue reading
  3. Support Human Rights for Workers in Food Supply Chains
    1 Jan 2015 … CIW's Fair Food Program has transformed Florida’s $650 million tomato industry. Now in its fourth season, it is poised to expand, and bring respect and dignity for workers to new crops and new states. Continue reading
  4. How America Punishes People for Being Poor
    10 Oct 2014 … If we are truly interested in building an America that is defined by opportunity, we must commit to policies that support rather than impede upward mobility. Continue reading
  5. Netanyahu’s “Us or Them” Is Nothing But Trouble Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
    3 Mar 2015 … Netanyahu has learned some other lessons from American politics that are far uglier and more brutish than polling techniques and media training. Continue reading
  6. Earth Conservation Corps
    7 Jul 2007 … Finding meaning in the blight of Anacostia, Washington, D.C. -- a look at the Earth Conservation Corps. Continue reading
  7. Why the Confederate Banner Must Come Down confederate flag
    6 Jun 2015 … It is the battle flag of white cowards, and those angry that white privilege is ending. Continue reading
  8. Looking Beyond the Minimum Wage Josh Adams, right, chants with other protestors near the corner of Airways Blvd. and Lamar Ave. outside of a McDonalds in Memphis, Tenn. Thursday, May 15, 2014, while demonstrating for a $15 wage and right to form a union without retaliation in the fast food industry. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, William DeShazer)
    5 May 2014 … Minimum wage campaigns should be the entry point to not only raise the bottom but also to challenge the tricks, skims and scams that concentrate wealth into the hands of fewer and fewer people. Continue reading
  9. An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country? A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter flies as the sun sets over the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006. A Marine died Monday from wounds sustained from enemy action in Iraq's western Anbar province, which brought to 61 the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq in December. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
    7 Jul 2014 … By many measures, the US may be the wealthiest, most powerful nation, but its ability to accomplish anything, no less achieve national or imperial success, has shrunk drastically. Continue reading
  10. Feel Like You’re Earning Less? There’s a Good Chance You Are
    10 Oct 2014 … The middle class squeeze continues, and you may find yourself wishing it was 1999. Continue reading