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Andrew King

Andrew King is a Postdoctoral Associate at Boston University and a Postdoctoral Associate at Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.  

• The mayor vs. the billionaires: De Blasio’s experience may aid Mamdani
• Venezuela 2002: The coup heard around the world

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Cindy Li

Cindy Li writes for People's Voice, Canada's leading socialist newspaper.

• Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0: The new Cold War fuels anti-Asian racism

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Brad Janzen

Brad Janzen is teaching English in China.

• Letter from China: “Hello teacher”
• New film from China on the horrors of the “Rape of Nanking”

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Keri Blakinger

Keri Blakinger is a staff writer for The Marshall Project. Her work focuses on prisons and jails. She writes “Inside Out,” a regular column published in collaboration with NBC News....

• Alabama lied: Prisoners face deadly retaliation for their strike
• Out of prison, TikTok influencers reshaping how we think about life behind bars

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Cameron Harrison

Cameron Harrison is a trade union activist and organizer for the CPUSA Labor Commission. He also works as a Labor Education Coordinator for the People Before Profits Education Fund.

• Tenants confront landlord disruption as they continue unionization drive
• Detroit students fight to save classmates kidnapped by ICE

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Joseph Lee

Joseph Lee, an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer, is a Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist and lives in New York City.

• La mejor manera de salvar los bosques es reconocer legalmente las tierras indígenas
• The best way to save forests is to legally recognize Indigenous lands

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Perry Genovesi

Perry Genovesi (he/him) works as a librarian in Philadelphia and serves his fellow workers in AFSCME DC 47. His short fiction appears or is forthcoming in Conceit, The Summerset Review,...

• Hundreds rally to support Philadelphia Museum of Art workers’ contract fight

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James Brooks

James Brooks writes for Associated Press.

• ‘Green steel’ heating up in Sweden’s frozen north

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Ani Toncheva

Ani Toncheva writes from New York.

• CPUSA Labor Commission holds international meeting on Trump’s trade war
• Young Amazon workers on Staten Island rattle the halls of power

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