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Trump Wants to Steal 800,000 Immigrant Dreams

My name is Gerardo. I am a proud undocumented immigrant and a grassroots leader at Colorado People’s Alliance (COPA), where we fight for racial justice in our state and nationwide. I want you to know my story. I am one of the recipients of the Deferred Action for...

When the Parades Are Over, Who Stands With Unions?

The Labor Day parades are over. The bands have packed up. The muscular speeches celebrating workers are finished. The trash is getting collected from parks across the country.  And now conservative politicians from Trump on down will revive their systematic efforts to...

Working on Labor Day to Recover from Harvey

Watching helplessly as flood waters rose was not an option for Brandon Parker. This Texas refinery worker and member of the United Steelworkers (USW) union has a jacked-up Suburban and a friend with a boat. There was no way he was going to let family members,...

Harvey Won't Be The Last Thousand-Year Storm

All our eyes have been glued to the devastation that is Hurricane Harvey. Here in New Jersey, we are still waiting on the help we were promised to fully recover from Superstorm Sandy, so we know the road home will be long and full of challenges. We feel heartbroken at...

Trump's Tax Plan Is a Confidence Scam

Donald Trump traveled to Springfield, Missouri to kick off the administration’s next big initiative: cutting taxes. Here was the essential Trump, the confidence man, peddling a plan that does not yet exist on paper. Populist bluster was deployed to cover for what will...

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