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FOIA records obtained by Type Investigations and In These Times raise questions about evidence presented in Prairieland case.

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Major labor unions in Minnesota are supporting the call, including Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28 — and organizers expect this list to grow. Faith in Minnesota, a faith-based social justice organization, has also joined the call. Minnesota has a history of joint, coalitional action among community groups, worker centers and unions.

Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.

Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.

A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and address Appalachia’s ongoing black lung crisis—has been under continued assault. Now, it looks like it’s off the table.

With rising grocery prices and increasingly sparse options, more places are considering municipal-owned grocery stores to create equitable access to food.

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The trillions of dollars in our retirement savings are enriching the ultra wealthy while they ravage our communities. A mass movement led by workers and pensioners can turn off the tap.

Nine former tenants of Equity Residential, the nation’s fifth-largest apartment owner, announced this week that they’re going on a new kind of strike. According to the company, the former tenants still owe amounts ranging from $195 to more than $50,000 — but in order to spotlight what they say are predatory practices by corporate landlords, the tenants will collectively refuse to pay up.

Basically, the company had to pay for its own buyout when private equity firms KKL, Vornado, and Bain bought the company for $6.6 billion, mostly with loans.

In its recent raids in Chicago, ICE disappeared community leader William Gimenez after the Venezuelan-American joined a lawsuit against the abuse of day laborers by off-duty Chicago police working as security at Home Depot. Mari Torrealba, Gimenez’ wife, joined protests calling for Gimenez’s release. ICE has not revealed where they are holding him.

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It always has been

The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for 40 years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents and educators.

Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history. Residents of Independence Towers, an 11-story building with a troubled history, won a contract with their landlord that stabilizes rents and imposes deadlines to complete plumbing and other major repairs.

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Along with everything Khalil said we also need to remember (or for thise who dont know already, learn)that the attacks against Palestinian rights advocates that aim to paint the support of resistance organizations as the support of violent terrorists are rooted in ignorance and falsehoods. As international law dictates; resistance to colonial occupation is an inherent right to indigenous populations including armed struggle

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