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Brinda Karat

Brinda Karat is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a leader of the All-India Democratic Women's Association. In 2005, she became the first woman elected to...

• Lesson from India farmers’ victory: United mass struggle can win

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Nathanael Johnson

Nathanael Johnson is a writer for Grist.org.

• Wildfires are obliterating Western forests, climate change is making it permanent

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Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes covers the environment, climate change, oceans, the Arctic, animals, anthropology, astronomy, plastics pollution, and politics. She holds a JD and an Ocean & Coastal Law Certificate from...

• Biden-Harris Admin announces $428M for coal communities to expand clean energy manufacturing
• Hurricane Helene death toll tops 200

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Zackery Corley

Zackery Corley is an activist in Alabama.

• Children as young as 12 working in Hyundai-owned plant in Alabama
• America’s rural hospitals were already in the red; COVID could finish them

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Ivan Stoiljkovic

Ivan Stoiljkovic grew up in socialist Yugoslavia and is a member of the Yugoslav diaspora. He is an activist now living in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

• ‘It was once our home’: Socialist Yugoslavia before the breakup

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Kelvin Chan

Associated Press business writer now in London, formerly Hong Kong.

• Activists block European Amazon warehouses on Black Friday

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Mark Armao

Mark Armao is a writer for Grist.org.

• Canada sides with a pipeline, violating indigenous laws — and its own
• EPA restores water protections that were assaulted under Trump

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Terry Baum

"Slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright."

• The art of disability culture: Dispelling myths, dissolving barriers, and disrupting prejudice

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Lee Gloster

Lee Gloster is a paraprofessional in special education and teacher in the Homebound Program at South Bend Community School Corporation.

• Kellogg’s workers stand strong as cereal strike stretches on

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