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How Corporations Hope to Eviscerate Workers’ Right to Strike

February 5, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

How Corporations Hope to Eviscerate Workers’ Right to Strike

Corporations so fear this kind of worker power that they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rig the scales and help them kill future strikes before they even begin.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, economy, Health care, Labor, Law, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Time-Sensitive, Tom Conway

Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?

January 28, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?

The tech sector is laying off tens of thousands of workers, making it clear that economic growth is currently valued above all else.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, Asia, Asia/India, economy, Europe/France, Europe/Spain, Europe/United Kingdom, Health care, Human Rights, immigration, Labor, Law, Media, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Social Benefits, Sonali Kolhat, Tech, Time-Sensitive

An Ancient Recipe for Social Success

January 28, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

An Ancient Recipe for Social Success

New evidence and understandings about the structure of successful early societies across Asia, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere are sweeping away the popular assumption that early societies tended toward autocracy and despotism.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, Art, Community, economy, environment, food, Gary M. Feinman, History, immigration, Labor, Linda M. Nicholas, Media, North America/Mexico, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion/Spirituality, Social Benefits, Social Science

Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks

January 14, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

a young man looking at books in a library

Efforts by governments and cities across the nation to defund the public library indicate a misunderstanding of the essential role that libraries play.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, April M. Short, Climate Change, Community, economy, education, environment, Health care, History, Human Rights, Internet, interview, Labor, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Prison Reform, Social Benefits, social justice, Tech, Trump

An Entire Decade of Benefits Denial for Vets After Toxic Chemical Exposure?

January 10, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

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In 1985, the greatest trichloroethylene level was 280 times over the safe exposure limit, whereas the highest perchloroethylene level eclipsed the safe exposure limit by 43 times.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, environment, Health care, History, Jonathan Sharp, Law, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, War

School Vouchers Have Been a Disaster—Now Advocates Are Trying to Rename Them

January 10, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

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What you need to know about education savings accounts, a kind of “super-voucher.”

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, education, GOP/Right Wing, Midterm Elections, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Peter Greene, Religious Freedom

‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources

January 10, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

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Law professor Mary Wood breaks down how people can protect their right to clean air, water, and land as well as fortify their climate change resiliency.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, Aric Sleeper, book, Climate Change, Community, environment, Europe/Italy, Europe/United Kingdom, History, Human Rights, interview, Law, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Social Science, United Nations

Why the Climate Justice March in South Korea Could Be a Game-Changer for the Environment

January 9, 2023 By Independent Media Institute

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On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation’s largest climate justice march.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, Alice S. Kim, Asia/South Korea, Climate Change, environment, food, History, Human Rights, interview, Labor, Opinion, Politics, social justice, Time-Sensitive, War, Women’s Rights

Hey Beto Fans: Let’s do a lot of the Stuff Beto was Talking About and Get to Work

December 1, 2018 By Daniel Cohen

Hey Beto Fans: Let’s do a lot of the Stuff Beto was Talking About and Get to Work

Many of the people I met who were stumping hard for Beto were young and appreciated him for decent reasons. But we must continue the work.

Filed Under: Guest Bloggers Tagged With: activism, Beto O'Rourke, Daniel J. Cohen

I am too damn busy surviving my present to worry about my future.

February 7, 2018 By Egberto Willies

I am too damn busy surviving my present to worry about my future.

Using his life as a prism, my Starbucks friend believes too many have to worry so much about the present, the future is something they can’t think about now.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: activism, busy

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