By R. Allen Wight On July 24, Italo Medelius-Marsano began his 40-day hunger strike, during which he has not eaten any food and is only drinking water. Italo will end his strike on September 2,…
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Conditions at Arkansas prison and former plantation By Victoria Valenzuela Prisons often frame agricultural labor as “rehabilitation,” but incarcerated people say their working conditions are dangerous and dehumanizing. AT spent nearly every day for five…
By Joel Sronce As this summer’s FIFA World Cup signifies the return of the mega international sporting event to Atlanta, it falls into a lineage riddled with displacement, repression, and profiteering. However, on April 19,…
Commentary by Alex Campbell So-called “right-to-work” (RTW) laws have existed in North Carolina since 1947. But NC policymakers are pushing a constitutional amendment that, if passed on the ballot by North Carolinians, would codify RTW…
Recent news of organizing and outreach work with NC farmworkers By El Futuro Es Nuestro Farmworkers who arrived in May from Mexico face new exploitative H-2A rules cutting their wages, not to mention the threat…
Against Right-Wing Regime By Olivia Arigho-Stiles “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth: “the land…
Brutal oppression and beautiful humanity exist in every grocery store Interview by Hamilton Nolan I have always found grocery stores fascinating—both as endpoints of a staggering global web of logistics, agriculture, and commerce, and as…
Rein In AI and Curb Layoffs By Brian Merchant As AI sweeps through the American education system and US tech workers stare down the specter of mass layoffs, thousands of IT employees across the statewide…
By Carl Hintz Since the start of April, 15 servers in the dining department at Searstone retirement community in Cary have been on strike. The workers are demanding written confirmation that a former hospitality manager…
By Danielle Smith Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50…