power to the people

:mjgrin:who needs Bernie when you have the power of the people From rent regulation to social housing, activists are pushing for serious solutions to the affordable-housing crisis. Crossing the Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge on a brisk spring morning in Rochester, New...

Labor organizers and researchers said they had not heard of Amazon previously coming to the table after worker pressure, even for private discussions. Soon after Hibaq Mohamed immigrated to Minneapolis from Kenya, where she had been living as a refugee, in 2016 she got a job at a new Amazon...

Jones, 36, joined 11 other activists in a 34-day hunger strike that began in August to protest the closing of Dyett High School, the last open-enrollment public high school in Bronzeville. On day 18 of the strike, CPS announced that Dyett would reopen, but with a focus on the arts rather than...

Tenants in Washington, D.C., are going into their second month of a rent strike, a tactic that organizers and experts say is becoming increasingly common as cities gentrify, the Washington Post reports. The strike mirrors others that have taken place in Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, San...

Gentrification, like all facets of capitalism, is often presented to its victims as a natural process. Shrouded in the logic of progress and polished up with euphemisms like “neighbourhood revitalization” or “urban renewal”, the violent displacement that it brings in its wake is carefully hidden...

In his prayer at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem last week, a prayer delivered against a backdrop of violence in Gaza, the evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress said Donald Trump was a moral leader who stood “on the right side of you, O God”. As one group of faith leaders celebrates...

Robbie Brown loved her students. For 18 years, she drove them in her yellow bus to and from schools in DeKalb County, Georgia. And then, last Friday, two police officers showed up at Brown’s house with a letter. She’d been fired. Brown is one of at least seven drivers sacked after staging a...

The longest student occupation in Howard University’s history ended Friday. Starting March 29, hundreds of students occupied Howard’s administration building for seven days in a protest spurred by a string of administrative malpractices — most recently the misuse of financial aid funds...

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/amp/idaho-high-school-football-players-accused-raping-disabled-teammate-lawsuit-n580841?client=safari. With cacs trying to get this "blm kidnapping" trending i think we should get this real injustice trending as obviously no mainstream...