Tennessee’s Healthcare Crisis: Bankruptcies, Closing Hospitals, And Medical Debt
The State of Tennessee is in the midst of a health care crisis, where its residents are struggling with debt, bankruptcies, and a lack of access to health care, while suffering from some of the highest rates in the United States of preventable illnesses.
‘It’s A Definitive Shift’: Chicago Teachers Union Strike A Major Victory For Public Education
“It’s a definitive shift in the entire landscape, not just in Chicago, but throughout the U.S., away from privatization, school closures, charter schools, and the kind of Koch Brother funding of private schools instead of public schools, a threat we’ve been fending off for the last 30 years,” said Jackson Potter, a union bargaining member and high school teacher in Chicago.
CIA Spying Against Julian Assange Is Latest Revelation In Years-Long Campaign
Kevin Gosztola looked back at the history between the CIA and WikiLeaks, and the agency’s long-held view of the dissident media organization as a “non-state hostile intelligence service.”
Trans Behind Bars: Homophobia Persists At Shakopee Prison After End To No-Touch Policy
A homophobic, transphobic culture persists at Minnesota’s Shakopee prison after successful organizing against a no-touch policy and for trans men to receive hormones.
Verizon Workers File Federal Complaints Against Alleged Racist Workplace Culture
Michael Sainato reports on equal employment opportunity complaints that workers filed against Verizon alleging the company engages in racial discrimination.
Financiers Of For-Profit Prisons Targeted With ‘Rolling Picket’ Organized By Anti-ICE Activists
Activists in New York organized “rolling picket” and targeted financiers of for-profit prisons, like CoreCivic and GEO Group, that hold detained immigrants.
Documents: CIA Successfully Pressured Michael Bay To Change Benghazi Movie
CIA’s Office of Public Affairs (OPA) staff met with director Michael Bay and successfully leaned on him to make changes to his Benghazi movie, “13 Hours.”
Many Shortfalls Of Wage Theft Enforcement For Migrant Workers
Migrant workers share stories of wage theft and retaliation by employers, and how there is little-to-no enforcement of state labor protections.
‘There’s More Of Us Than Landlords’: Tenant Organizing In The Trump Era
Tenants throughout the U.S. struggle with the high cost of living and loss of their homes, but are escalating a grassroots movement for housing justice.
‘We’re Not Being Paid’: Musicians Struggle Against Orchestra Management, Streaming Services
At the end of May, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra management informed their musicians that the summer season would be canceled and musicians would be locked out beginning June 17, the first work stoppage for the orchestra in 31 years. “We’re not being paid. They told us our health insurance will
