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Financial Crisis September 23, 2016
The Fight Against Austerity Started Here
In 2011, the people of Wisconsin challenged the right’s austerity agenda. Their uprising was even more revolutionary than you think.
Sarah Jaffe
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Housing and Homelessness July 5, 2016
This Group Pioneered the Fight for $15. Can They Transform the Fight for Affordable Housing Too?
New York Communities for Change wants to remake New York in a more equal image.
Sarah Jaffe
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Activism August 31, 2015
What a Band of 20th-Century Alabama Communists Can Teach Black Lives Matter and the Offspring of Occupy
On the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking history, Hammer and Hoe, author Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the lessons Alabama’s forgotten black communists can offer today’s activists.
Sarah Jaffe
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Housing and Homelessness June 25, 2015
How Andrew Cuomo Sold Out New York City Renters to a Pack of Wealthy Landlords
As protesters camp out in Albany to demand better protections for renters, lawmakers cop out on their consituents with a lukewarm rent regulation agreement.
Sarah Jaffe
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Cities June 17, 2015
Can Kshama Sawant Build an Actual Socialist City in America?
First, she'll have to win rent control.
Sarah Jaffe
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Labor April 22, 2015
Would You Rather Grow Old at Home With Your Family or Alone in a Nursing Home?
How Ai-jen Poo’s radical vision for caregiving could remake our economy along more humane lines.
Michelle Chen and Sarah Jaffe
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Activism February 23, 2015
How 262 Cable Technicians Defeated a Union-Busting Giant
After a three-and-a-half-year struggle, workers in Cablevision’s first unionized shop finally win a contract.
Sarah Jaffe
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Cities January 21, 2015
Can a Progressive Mayor Govern New York City?
Bill de Blasio was elected to unite a divided city, but some rifts are hard to mend.
Sarah Jaffe
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Campaigns and Elections September 10, 2014
How Zephyr Teachout Taught Democrats a Lesson in Democracy
Andrew Cuomo’s challenger for Governor of New York State didn’t beat him in the primary, but she did prove that no candidate is invincible.
Sarah Jaffe
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Feminism August 21, 2014
How to End the Criminalization of America’s Mothers
Other countries provide childcare and income supports for poor mothers; in the United States, we arrest them.
Sarah Jaffe, Mariame Kaba, Randy Albelda and Kathleen Geier