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A publication committed to informing and advancing movements for social, economic, racial and environmental justice. Founded in 1976.
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“The history of the American kings of capital and authority is the history of repeated crimes, injustice, oppression, outrage, and abuse.” inthesetimes.com/article/emma...
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The Philippine government, with U.S. support, has engaged in violent, extralegal repression of activists, the tribunal found. inthesetimes.com/article/inte...
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The New Orleans’ Workers’ Bill of Rights would create a Healthy Workplace designation to incentivize good jobs. Advocates say it’s a vital tool to hold bad bosses accountable.
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When cops tell you who they are, listen. inthesetimes.com/article/stra...
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Kent Wong reflects on the passing of Rev. James Lawson—mentor, friend and “the greatest teacher of nonviolence in America.” inthesetimes.com/article/jame...
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New Orleans dollar store workers’ fight for better working conditions has sparked a citywide initiative for justice on the job. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
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Facing some of the most hostile organizing conditions in the country, Louisiana workers are taking on bold fights—and making gains. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
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Curtis Bay residents rallied at the CSX rail terminal with a simple demand: “We have to remove CSX for the health of our communities.”
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In advancing right-wing border policy, Biden appeals to popular will. But polls also show overwhelming support for universal pre-K, Medicare for All and a permanent ceasefire.
Why isn’t Biden running on these incredibly popular policies? inthesetimes.com/article/bide...
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While the debate was a nightmare for team Biden, the moderators gave Trump’s lies free rein—and ensured that it wasn’t much of a debate at all. inthesetimes.com/article/bide...
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Yesterday's presidential debate was a disaster in more ways than one. inthesetimes.com/article/bide...
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“Party bigwigs enabled, and in some cases actively assisted, the replacement of an exciting, young, Black educator with a 70-year-old, white career politician who had a history of obstructing federal desegregation efforts.” inthesetimes.com/article/jama...
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While over 2.3 million Palestinians are at risk of dying from Israeli-imposed starvation, corporate media outlets insist on portraying the genocide as a “conflict” with two equally culpable “sides.” inthesetimes.com/article/we-c...
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University administrators are floating sweeping new proposals to enact stronger consequences for campus protest.
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It’s a common misconception that Democrats’ policy preferences are dictated by polling.
If that were true, they would be fighting for Medicare for All, free college, and a permanent ceasefire.
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The Squad may have lost a key member, but AIPAC has had to drastically narrow its ambitions, targeting the most vulnerable of Israel critics in order to inflate its strength. inthesetimes.com/article/jama...
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At least a dozen universities have made sudden changes to policies dictating when and where students can gather following the rise of Gaza solidarity encampments.
“Colleges are coming to look more like a police state than institutions of higher learning.” inthesetimes.com/article/camp...
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Settler colonial states rely on seductive mythologies that obscure the violence of ethnic cleansing.
“Just as the U.S. celebrates itself as ‘a nation of immigrants,’ Zionists celebrated Palestine as a land without people for a people without land.” inthesetimes.com/article/roxa...
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In his right-wing turn on border policy, the Biden administration has invoked the widespread popularity of increased enforcement.
Why, then, isn’t he running on universal pre-K, Medicare for All and a permanent ceasefire—policies voters support in droves? inthesetimes.com/article/bide...
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Without informing faculty or students, Indiana University administrators rewrote campus policies around campus gatherings—and called in heavily armed state troopers for enforcement.
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Israel’s war on Gaza is not a “conflict” between two equal national movements—it must be understood as a colonial war, writes Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. inthesetimes.com/article/roxa...
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New York congressional candidate George Latimer has come under fire for racially insensitive comments. His history of slow-walking federal desegregation efforts has received less notice. inthesetimes.com/article/geor...
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“Just as the U.S. celebrates itself as ‘a nation of immigrants,’ Zionists celebrated Palestine as a land without people for a people without land.”
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the founding myths of the U.S. and Israel:
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“They reversed a policy of 50 years overnight and then they proceeded to enforce this new policy the next day at the point of a gun.” inthesetimes.com/article/camp...
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Despite decades of human rights abuses, Chiquita has played a leading role in the development of voluntary “corporate responsibility” initiatives.
Unsurprisingly, these have failed to hold corporations to account. inthesetimes.com/article/chiq...
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“We are the encampment. We’ll be back.”
Scenes from UChicago’s Popular University for Gaza:
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“I have never seen anything like this, in any institution I have been a part of.”
Following the rise of solidarity encampments at campuses across the country, universities are changing their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza.
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The devil works hard, but the passive voice works harder.
New comics from Niccolo Pizarro, Jen Sorensen, Pia Guerra and Tom Tomorrow:
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Trump’s conviction has been hailed as a triumph for the rule of law—but he continues to engage in criminal acts faster than the justice system can respond. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer. inthesetimes.com/article/camp...
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The conviction of Donald Trump is not proof that the criminal justice system works—it was simply never intended to ensnare people like him. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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Let’s not erase the icons that came before us.
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Longtime Baltimore residents on the fight for environmental justice and what it feels like to be “sacrificed” by industry:
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“The issue with Siwa isn’t about an affront to intellectual property, the idea that she must formally credit someone every time she speaks. The issue is that gay pop isn’t a brand, and it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.” inthesetimes.com/article/jojo...
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It’s no surprise that Europe’s far-right is seizing power: for decades, governments and institutions have legitimated their claim that migration threatens the survival of European civilization. inthesetimes.com/article/euro...
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Veteran longshoreman John Blom on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the slow recovery ahead for port workers. inthesetimes.com/article/work...
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No, JoJo Siwa did not invent gay pop. inthesetimes.com/article/jojo...
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“When Republican governors take control of a state, they tend to view public unions as the last stubborn opponents standing in the way of transforming that state into a Koch Brothers fever dream.”
Anti-union politicians also hate democracy. That’s no coincidence. inthesetimes.com/article/fair...
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Fairfax County Public Schools workers have voted to unionize in one of the biggest public sector union wins of the past quarter century.
“There are some deep lessons for the entire labor movement in what just happened in Virginia.” inthesetimes.com/article/fair...
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“Under capitalism, there is no community — just a sound to commodify a marketable demographic.”
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Black communities are 75% more likely than others to live near hazardous waste facilities. Many of these neighborhoods have a cancer risk that is 190 times higher than the EPA’s “acceptable” risk level. inthesetimes.com/article/epa-...
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Conservatives would like us to believe that abortion is the solution to any number of social ills, from attacks on abortion access to lack of support for young families.
It’s easy to see why: it lets them off the hook for bad policy. inthesetimes.com/article/alit...
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“It’s very isolating to watch your friends be bombed every day and for life to just continue as normal.” inthesetimes.com/article/we-k...
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A recent study found that between 600 and 2,000 U.S. workers die each year from heat-related injuries—up to 55x higher than the official figure.
Citing numbers that are willfully miscounted, lobbyists argue there’s no need for workplace heat protections. inthesetimes.com/article/extr...
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“The calculation is being made day after day that hundreds of civilian deaths are permissible if the Israeli state is the one doing the killing.” inthesetimes.com/article/we-k...
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“They told me they didn’t recognize me anymore, that Palestinians have no rights [and] that if I didn’t ‘disavow’ the Squad, they were going to come at me with everything they had. And that is, in fact, what they did.” inthesetimes.com/article/squa...
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Under the guise of “safety,” universities across the country have allowed law enforcement to brutalize student protesters for Gaza.
Why “We Keep Us Safe” is far more than just a slogan:
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After Texas introduced its six-week abortion ban bill, Mexican activists sprung into action with skill sharing sessions on self-managed abortion and cross-border solidarity. inthesetimes.com/article/self...
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“While Dobbs has restricted and complicated legal access to abortion in many states across the country ... the grassroots feminist response appears to have actually increased access to abortion pills overall.” inthesetimes.com/article/self...
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ICYMI:
Andrei Popoviciu’s “How Europe Outsourced Border Enforcement to Africa” has won the European Press Prize’s Migration Journalism Award.
Read it now: inthesetimes.com/article/euro...
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