By Brenda Álvarez When students at Brunswick High School’s alternative education program begin missing class, Rie Larson knows it’s time to ask questions. “Sometimes when we start to notice a student’s drop in attendance, and…
By R Allen Wight In March of this year at UNC Chapel Hill, the winning candidate for president of the Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) was disqualified for a minor infraction against election rules….
By Andrew Sartain We’ve all heard the rumors of foreign interests buying up millions of acres of American farmland. In fact, over 45 million acres of U.S. farmland—nearly the size of half of California—are now…
By Durham Dispatch On May 7, around 150 people gathered at Lyon Park Community Center to launch Durham Rising, an alliance of labor unions and progressive organizations pushing for an improved relationship between Duke University,…
Commentary by Michael D. Yates A cornerstone of Donald Trump’s economic policies is tariffs. Claiming that just about every country in the world has ripped off the United States—even stating that the European Union was…
By Sonali Kolhatkar President Donald Trump has tapped a former board member of the private mail delivery corporation FedEx to be the next United States Postmaster General. David Steiner’s appointment as head of the public…
By Teresa Cotsirilos and Ted Genoways The U.S. food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. From California’s strawberry fields to Florida’s orange orchards, at least 70 percent of the…
By R. Allen Wight El Futuro Es Nuestro, or “It’s Our Future (IOF),” organizes H2-A and immigrant farmworkers in North Carolina and advocates on their behalf. The organization initially materialized out of grassroots demands for…
How this legal worker visa became a human trafficking scheme By Katie Nixdorf and Paul Blest In recent years, a massive scheme to traffic and exploit vulnerable agricultural workers has taken shape in the US….
By Noah Hurowitz An immigration raid in western New York on May 2 targeted a group of immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by farm workers to unionize. On Friday morning at around 9:30…