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Jelly Roll Morton's hit single in 1923. Women's Rights Convention in 1848. Disability rights a winner in 1968. Prepaid comprehensive healthcare in 1945. Investigation smoke and mirrors in 2004. Prisoner abuse in 2006. Civil disobedience in 1846. portside.org/2023-07-17/wee…

And now they don’t want to pay their employees. portside.org/2023-07-17/bus…

Veterans resign from the Florida State Guard force established as civilian disaster relief, citing concerns over ‘militaristic’ training and ‘abuse’ portside.org/2023-07-17/sta…

Rising temperatures, lack of water and encroaching development are creating tough conditions for the crucial California crop. Their continued viability could all depend on strengthening the lands on which they sit. portside.org/2023-07-17/alm…

Amazon delivery drivers, employed by Amazon contractors, joined the Teamsters and won big gains. Amazon is fighting back, so workers are stepping up their struggle. portside.org/2023-07-17/ama…

Rereading The Fire Next Time after the death of Michael Brown, and then again after that of George Floyd, changed the book for me—because those events had changed me. I want my students to have that same opportunity in their own time, not just mine. portside.org/2023-07-17/ann…

You don’t want to be in the Iraq that this country invaded in what was, in essence, a giant oil grab and helped turn into a land of overheated rubble, dust, sand, drought, and increasingly over-the-top temperatures. portside.org/2023-07-17/ira…

Ideological differences threaten to muddy the definition of death in the United States — with potentially negative consequences for clinicians and people awaiting organ transplants. portside.org/2023-07-16/sun…

Those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddharth Kara, an international expert on modern-day slavery and author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. portside.org/2023-07-16/cob…

What is the most viable path to a working-class party in the United States? How to Implode a Two-Party System from Within. portside.org/2023-07-16/wan…

Veterans of his remarkable insurgent 1988 campaign gather to pay tribute. portside.org/2023-07-16/jes…

I’ve been working for several years on a large linoleum blockprint that traces the history of the use of Congolese uranium in the Manhattan project. portside.org/2023-07-16/nuc…

More than a year after the Amazon Labor Union’s landmark victory at a Staten Island warehouse, Amazon still refuses to bargain with the union. Meanwhile, a reform caucus is pushing for the ALU to hold leadership elections. portside.org/2023-07-16/ama…

While it’s always refreshing to see the lives of working people centered in our media, the docuseries Working: What We Do All Day is hampered by the limitations of its host and narrator, former president Barack Obama. portside.org/2023-07-16/bar…

Calls AI a ‘Criminal Enterprise’: They’ll ‘Scan Extras, Own Their Likeness Forever and Eliminate Them’ portside.org/2023-07-15/joh…

Clearly, micro- and nanoplastics are getting into us, with at least some escaping through our digestive tracts. We seem to be drinking, eating, and breathing it in. portside.org/2023-07-15/nan…

Florida, South Dakota and Arizona are also battlegrounds for whether abortion is restricted or protected as states continue to contend with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last summer. portside.org/2023-07-15/abo…

We must build a utopia that can defeat the utopia of the right, which says the state is worth nothing, the state must be weak and private initiative solves everything. We have to make sure that the movement of people is as free as economic movement. portside.org/2023-07-15/war…

Italy needs a coalition — not a coalition of anti-fascist forces, but rather a coalition for anti-fascism. portside.org/2023-07-15/we-…

Agroecology and biodiversity are the “only viable solutions” to climate change, portside.org/2023-07-15/afr…