When Durham School System announced that 1,300 “classified staff,” (janitors, IT workers, teachers’ aides, and cafeteria employees) would receive a seven percent wage increase, one delighted worker told a local newspaper, “We’re starting to get the pay we deserve.”...
Does it seem like in the past few months someone is shooting up the neighborhood (in this case, our world)? If it seems that way to you, you’re not wrong. And if it seems like the U.S. is the shooter, you’d be right. The U.S. has many hundreds of military bases,...
On February 2, multinational oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron both announced paying out record amounts to shareholders in 2023, indicating that both were extremely profitable. Even worse, both also announced that they had produced record amounts of gas in a single...
As the U.S. continues to provide full support for Israel’s genocidal attack on Palestinians, protests have continued around the United States, and at major speaking events of President Biden and other members of the Democratic Party, calling out the Democrats for...
Residents of Curtis Bay, an industrial neighborhood in South Baltimore, were shaken by yet another explosion last week, which reportedly shook windows and doors. Only two years ago, an explosion at the coal terminal in the neighborhood blew out windows and traumatized...
