Buffalo, New York Starbucks workers at the Elmwood Avenue location in Buffalo, New York, the first corporate-owned Starbucks in the U.S. to unionize, walked off the job Jan. 5 in protest of unsafe working conditions and understaffing. Unionized Starbucks workers at Elmwood Ave. in Buffalo walk out in protest. Credit: . . .
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What just happened? In Brookwood, Alabama, United Mine Workers coal miners “hold the line” and continue the strike they began in April 2021. The past year has been a brutal wake-up call for the working class. The pandemic has killed hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers so far and left . . .
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This commentary, recorded by Prison Radio, aired on Democracy Now on Dec. 28. Archbishop Tutu visited Mumia Abu-Jamal in 2007, when he was still on death row. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021. Almost a century ago, a little African boy was born to a small family in a small town where . . .
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