Amid the disappointments of Obama's first year in office is one bright spot: a Department of Labor that stands up for workers' rights.
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Mark Engler
Mark Engler
Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia and an editorial board member at Dissent magazine. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is entitled This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century.
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This fall is becoming a breakthrough season for the emerging social movement for climate justice.
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La nueva Secretaria de Trabajo está haciendo justamente lo que debe hacer: defender los derechos de los trabajadores.
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Why the White House agenda is incomplete, and why that's not all bad.
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Por qué Thomas Friedman está equivocado sobre la globalización
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Cómo pudo haber respondido el Dr. King a la actual crisis de recesión, desempleo y ejecución de hipotecas.
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Rebecca Solnit explores how our responses to disasters can point the way to a better society. (A review of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.)
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How the White House botched its response to the Honduran coup.
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G20 leaves needed reforms for global economy off the table.
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An entry for the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.