Cameron Orr
LATEST ARTICLES BY Cameron Orr
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Labor
Peoples Summit participants jumping into election battles
June 14, 2017“If you spend half an hour talking to folks about their needs and how you’re going to address them, then when you ask them to be an ally to somebody else, they’re ready to do it.”
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Labor
Service workers win battle over scheduling
May 31, 2017In New York City, all businesses who employ 11 or more non-tipped workers will have to pay a $15 minimum wage by the end of 2018.
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News
Angela Davis: collective leadership and unity will defeat Trump
March 14, 2017Davis stressed that the struggles for gender and racial equality are “at the center of the struggle for democracy. If anyone knows the way we should be heading, it’s today’s youth.”
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News
Private developers punch holes in New York “sanctuary state”
February 18, 2017Trump has promised to cut funding to sanctuary cities and states, Federal funds from Housing and Urban Development to New York City will not be forthcoming. To protect tenants, especially those in Black and Brown communities...
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U.S.
Fair housing advocates condemn welfare for developers
December 2, 2016Fair housing advocates say Trump has already demonstrated to the world that developers can be counted on to rip people off.
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Politics
New York Communists analyze election outcome
November 21, 2016“We need the biggest Communist Party, progressive organizations, and unions ever.”
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Labor
New York labor panel examines cops as workers
October 26, 2016"Police officers show up and think about these issues; the next time we have a conversation, we can do it differently."
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U.S.
“The Bronx is ready to fight” for affordable housing
October 4, 2016Bronx residents mobilized to resist a development plan that threatens to displace an entire neighborhood.
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