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What Does it Take for Voters to Support Progressive Candidates

For a long time, we’ve heard that if only people had information about progressive, left-of-center candidates, the majority of voters would support them. Now,...

Thom Hartmann

Greg Palast

David Bacon

Union Busters Use ICE to Intimidate Wine-Industry Workers

https://truthout.org/articles/union-busters-are-using-ice-to-intimidate-california-wine-industry-workers/ In late July, Raul Calvo, a well-known California union-buster, called workers at the Rodney Strong Vineyards into a meeting. Salvador Ramirez, who'd labored among...

photos from the edge 39 – Paris Of The Streets

  Photographs by David Bacon Paris at one time was the most photographed city in the world. The boy with the bread loaves. The man jumping...

photos from the edge 35 – Sit -In at the National Labor Relations Board

  The classic unionbusting strategy for breaking unions - the permanent replacement of strikers by scabs - received its blessing from the Reagan administration in...

Life After Mother

Life After Mother, Five to Ten Years

About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that led to her death two years later and, once again, I was the only close relative to shoulder the burdens that accompanied the end of her life.