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Cameron Harrison

Cameron Harrison is a trade union activist and organizer for the CPUSA Labor Commission. He writes from Detroit, Michigan.

• Senate Republicans launch McCarthyite attack on Machinists union over Cuba solidarity
• WFTU calls for day of action against imperialist war and militarism

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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.

• WFTU calls for week of action in solidarity with Cuba
• CPUSA Labor Commission holds international meeting on Trump’s trade war

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Jackson Todd

Jackson Todd is an activist who studies gig worker organizing strategies. Jackson Todd es un activista que estudia estrategias de organización de trabajadores temporales.

• New School part-time faculty reject university’s offer; strike continues
• California’s fast food sectoral bargaining law could revolutionize the labor movement

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Star City Workers’ Club

Star City Workers Club of the Communist Party USA, Roanoke, Virginia.

• Rally for Starbucks Workers’ Union in Virginia Appalachians

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Lina Tran

Lina Tran is a writer and journalist. Tran is a News and Politics Fellow for Grist. She grew up on the coast of Alabama and lives in Milwaukee. Her work...

• Peak cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C. is early again
• First a hurricane, now wildfire: Climate disasters are colliding in Florida

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Symon Hill

Symon Hill is campaign manager of the Peace Pledge Union in the UK and a history tutor for the Workers’ Educational Association there.

• New anti-war movements gain traction in Russia and Ukraine

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