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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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Jimmy Doran

Jimmy Doran is a member of the National Executive Committee and a trade unions spokesperson of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI).

• Save the planet or save capitalism; we can’t do both

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Tracey Aikman

Tracey Aikman is sick and tired of mass layoffs in the Midwest. He has been laid off by global corporations United Technologies, Chrysler, and now Schneider Electric. He is married...

• I’m one of the workers Donald Trump lied to about saving jobs

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Christie Launius

Christie Launius is Associate Professor and Head of the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Department at Kansas State University. She is the book review editor of the Journal of Working-Class...

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Doug Feinberg

AP National women's basketball writer.

• Basketball’s Maya Moore dedicated to criminal justice

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Brian W. Major

Brian Major has worked in the field of community mental health and addictions for 15 years, being clean and sober himself for over 23 years. Brian is a member of...

• ‘Pamela: A Love Story’ tackles media sexism and questions of agency, consent
• The ‘Marxist’ allies of transphobia?

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