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Phil Katz

Phil Katz is author of "Freedom From Tyranny — the Fight Against Fascism and the Falsification of History" (Manifesto Press).

• History falsified as Europe says Nazis and communists are the same

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Zoya Teirstein

Zoya Teirstein is a Grist staff writer covering climate change and health.

• The flood that caused a housing reckoning in Vermont
• The climate vice president? What Tim Walz brings to the Harris ticket

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Organizing Upgrade

Engaging left organizers in strategic dialogue.

• Native sovereignty and the struggle for democracy in 2020: Interview with Judith LeBlanc

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Drew Garvie

Drew Garvie is the Ontario leader of the Communist Party of Canada. He writes for People's Voice, Canada's leading socialist newspaper.

• COVID-19 exposes austerity attacks on Canada’s public health system in Ontario
• Canada’s “Minister of War” Chrystia Freeland pursues “America First” foreign policy

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Grist staff

Founded in 1999, Grist is a beacon in the smog — an independent, irreverent news outlet and network of innovators working toward a planet that doesn’t burn and a future...

• Biden admin unveils first-ever heat protections for workers
• Black environmentalists are organizing against worldwide injustice

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Rafael Pizarro

Rafael Pizarro is a national co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).

• POETRY: A mother stamps her feet
• Henry Winston’s Laugh

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Adam Beam

Associated Press reporter writing about California's budget, water, pensions, and health care.

• Republicans installed illegal ballot drop boxes in California; elections officials order removal
• California law: College athletes deserve some of the millions in value they create

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Melanie Bender

Melanie Bender is a photojournalist, covering the protests at Standing Rock in North Dakota and the ICWA case in Pine Ridge, S.D. She is Mohave and Choctaw. An artist of...

• Panel on Cherokee War Chief held at Tennessee State Museum
• Murder of Native woman in California still unsolved

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Guadalupe Salazar

• Esos no somos: El migrante como agente de cambio

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