Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.
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Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today's critics of neoliberal capitalism.
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Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.
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Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.
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Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.
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If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger's insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.
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Jeremy Brecher, author of the labor-history classic Strike!, considers the recent wave of teacher walkouts, how we can overcome America's "strike drought," and the future role of mass disobedience in democratic politics.
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In cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs.
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Company founder Jeff Bezos did not become the world’s richest man by letting employees enjoy free-range lifestyles.