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Reverend N. José “Pepe” Wilkinson and other members of the Invest in San Diego Families Coalition at People’s Budget press conference in January 2017, calling on county supervisors to dramatically increase funding for services.

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Going on Offense During Challenging Times

January 2018May 2018 Marilyn Sneiderman and Secky Fascione austerity, collective bargaining, community organizations, corporations, debt, education, finance, Labor, racism, trade unions, Winter 2018

How collective bargaining becomes a revolutionary act.

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Gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

February 2017June 2018 Max Fraser corporations, finance, industry, politics, Republican Party

You know things have gotten bad for the banking industry when even the bankers themselves are beating up on their

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Labor Wars: Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing

October 2016June 2018 Shaun Richman collective bargaining, corporations, Fall 2016, global unions, international labor, Labor, Labor Wars, organizing, unorganized workers, working class

In this article, views of Shaun Richman are expressed followed by a response from Jonathan Rosenblum Two Reasons Why Most Unions Don’t Do Large-Scale Organizing By Shaun Richman In 2005, the labor movement…

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Corporations Call for “Net Zero” Emissions: Do They Know How to Get There?

August 2016June 2018 Sean Sweeney capitalism, climate change, corporations, environmental movement, Fall 2016, neoliberalism

In the months leading to the December 2015 Paris Climate Conference, representatives of global institutional investors and multinational corporations made

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Organizing in a Brave New World

June 2016June 2018 Saqib Bhatti and Stephen Lerner austerity, capitalism, collective bargaining, community organizations, corporations, Fall 2016, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class

Austerity, growing inequality, and the economic and political domination of billionaires, bankers, hedge funds, and giant corporations make the current moment ripe for birthing a movement that can radically transform the country and the world. This is a time of great peril, but also of extraordinary opportunity and—yes—reasons for hope. The last four decades have been characterized by unrelenting attacks on the working class, the weakening of unions and the financialization of capitalism.