In his first week in office, President Biden issued a number of executive orders – including one to end the use of private prisons. Private, for-profit prisons are some of the most hideous places in a criminal justice system already filled with degrading and...
Amazon employees in Bessemer, Alabama, have been organizing to form a union. It’s worth remembering why Amazon employees might want a union in the first place. In October 2020, Amazon admitted that at least twenty thousand of its employees had been infected by COVID....
In the Paris region, employees at the Total oil refinery in Grandpuits have been on strike since Monday, January 4 against the announced closure of their plant, which would lead to 700 jobs lost. They are holding firm in their arm-wrestling match with the oil giant...
The Super Bowl is this Sunday, February 7th in Tampa, Florida. The game will pit the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It should be an exciting match-up of star quarterbacks with Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes trying to lead their...
The proclamation that “Black Lives Matter” was first raised in 2013 in protest of the violence against Black people by police and vigilantes. It has since been adopted by a broad movement against racist cop violence and for racial justice generally. That movement...
