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National Labor Board Under Corporate Attack

By Kate Andrias Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to allegations that they have violated U.S. labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several…


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It Is Time for a Democratic World Order

Commentary by Muhannad Ayyash There has been much discussion about South Africa’s landmark case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing the crime of genocide. When it comes to tangible…




How I Became a Migrant Trafficker in Mexico

By Belén Fernández In February 2024, far-right American activist and white nationalist Laura Loomer—whom former United States president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump once praised as “really very special”—descended upon Panama for a weeklong…


What Does It Take to Organize Immigrant

Workers in the South? By FLOC Media At 7:30 a.m. workers begin filing into the large tin building, surrounded by heavy machinery and pallets stacked high. Tucked away amongst sweet potato farms in rural North…


New ‘Independent Contractor ’ Rule

By Jessica Corbett Democrats in Congress and unions were among those ap­plauding in early January as the U.S. Department of Labor an­nounced its final rule to provide guidance on when employers can treat workers as…


Garment Workers Take on Wage Theft and Wall Street

By Jacob Horwitz Dilhani worked for six years in a Sri Lankan factory that makes clothes for Nike. She is one of millions of South and Southeast Asian garment workers in Big Fashion companies’ supply…


Underground Seed Banks Hold Promise for

Ecological Restoration By Josephine Woolington In 2000, Sam Lea converted his once-productive Wil­la­mette Valley onion field back into wetlands. The third-generation Oregon farmer excavated several ponds and largely left the land alone. Soon, willows arrived…


A Ship Crashed Into a Baltimore Bridge… and

Demolished Lies About Immigration Commentary by Will Bunch From the day in the mid-2000s when a then-20-year-old May­­nor Yassir Suazo Sandoval crossed the border into America, he never stopped working. The youngest of eight children,…