Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Zoltán Glück, Waging Nonviolence. May 27, 2012.
The core issues at stake here are the same ones that students and workers around the world are facing right now: austerity and the increasing privatization of education.
Geopolitics turned humanitarian workers and refugees into hostages of a budget war that makes life for the community absurdly hard, from seeing a doctor to earning a paycheck.
Organizers and activists have planned direct actions and mass rallies, marches and blockades, as well as mutual aid and concerts to include as many people as possible.
Occupy actions planned on May Day are tied to the generations-long movement for the eight-hour day, to immigrant workers, to police brutality and repression of the labor movement.
In a new memoir, Ghonim describes how the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression and found their voice. Here, he discusses with Terrence McNally.
Teamsters in Alabama went on strike against a giant garbage company--and in Seattle, New York and Ohio, workers joined them in solidarity, in a move that's usually illegal.
Jefferson Cowie, Dissent Magazine. March 25, 2012.
The PATCO strike has become the pivotal event in almost everyone’s understanding of the massive realignment of class power in the United States in the last few decades.
Manissa McCleave Maharawal, AlterNet. March 13, 2012.
Occupy changed over the winter from outdoor camps to internal work and debates. But that laid the groundwork for a very big spring. Here's what to expect.
The all-India general strike brought together workers of various sectors united under a banner of opposition to neoliberal policies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government.
Foxconn, a factory that makes iPhones and Xboxes among other gadgets, is seeing strikes by workers over low wages, long hours, and terrible conditions.
Carl Finamore, In These Times. September 20, 2011.
Pent up frustrations from more than 23,000 registered nurses at 34 Northern and Central California hospitals will explode to the surface in a one-day strike on September 22.
Bruce Dixon, Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report. December 17, 2010.
Georgia prisoners have began a courageous, peaceful and nonviolent protest strike for educational opportunities, wages for their work, medical care and human rights.
