this post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Just ten minutes! This is how long it took the government to decide to push through its pension reform in Parliament, hoping to put an end to almost four months of social protest,...
Since 2013, the Levin Shipyard in Richmond, CA has been shipping coal, mined in Utah, as well as petroleum coke, primarily from Phillips 66 in Rodeo, to Japan and other Asian countries. Every week, roughly 200 uncovered freight trains have rolled through working class...
The comedian John Oliver on his show Last Week Tonight recently did a feature about US health care costs. It turns out that the mark-up on medication is so high, the Utah-based insurance company PEHP saves money by paying their customers up to $500 to fly from Salt...
Recently the Walt Disney Company went after a Berkeley elementary school for showing The Lion King at a PTA fundraising event, fining them $250 for copyright violation – more than a third of the money they had raised. This situation is especially ironic, because the...
Graduate students at U.C. Santa Cruz (UCSC) are on strike from teaching for the second week in a row, with the support of undergraduates. They are fighting for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) that would lift the burden of sky-high rents. This is a wildcat strike,...
