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Category: Guest Commentary

Guest Commentary

Starbucks “Partners” Laugh as CEO Schultz Claims He’s No Union-Buster

By Rebekah Entralgo Guest Commentator

The spectacle of members of Congress grilling Howard Schultz was highly satisfying to employees of the coffee giant.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, under threat of subpoena, has finally appeared before the United States Senate to answer for the company’s union-busting practices. Most unionized…

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Domestic (Non)Violence

By Thea Eskey Guest Commentator

Fallout from the drive to quickly cut the number of people in prison has been severe for victims of domestic violence and child abuse.

In a feat of Orwellian bravado designed to drive down a ballooning prison population, California recategorized domestic violence, a crime with the word “violence” in its…

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Women’s History Month – Septima Clark: Teacher To A Movement

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor Guest Commentator

If you watch the movie 'From Montgomery to Memphis,' you'll notice that they don't mention one woman going through there. Not one. You almost never see their role put down in any of the reports about the Movement. You just get 'Dr. so-and-so from Alabama State College did such-and-such.'" She called sexism "one of the weaknesses of the civil rights movement."

Rosa Parks, who has been called the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, well remembers the first time she met Septima Clark. It was at a…

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Michigan Opens the Door to Restoring Union Power

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

For the first time in nearly 60 years, a state is poised to reverse its “right to work” law and begin to undo the damage of a corporate-driven anti-union trend.

Michigan is expected very soon to reverse its so-called “right-to-work” (RTW) law. The repeal, led by Democrats and passing along strictly partisan lines, is a concrete…

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Meet the New Holocaust Missile and Armageddon Submarine

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

Names Like Minuteman, Peacekeeper, and Sentinel Are Diabolically Dishonest.

Ever think about names of U.S. weapons of war? Rarely are those names honest. I do applaud the relative honesty of Predator and Reaper drones, because…

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What Kevin Alexander Gray Taught Me

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The late civil rights activist and author didn’t let elected officials off the hook, no matter how liberal. He understood the importance of intersectionality and what it takes to achieve progressive change.

In July 2015, when two Black Lives Matter activists challenged liberal candidates running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, the late Kevin Alexander Gray told me…

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Democracy Can Disappear

By Paul F. deLespinasse Guest Commentator

Developments in many countries like Peru, Brazil, Hungary and even the United States suggest that we cannot assume that once democracy exists, it will always last.

Democratic government is impossible when the social conditions that it rests on don't exist. Democratic governments have disappeared. Democratic government is impossible when the social conditions…

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Why Student Debt Cancellation Is Reasonable, Not Radical

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness, and President Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough. We should, in fact, center the idea of fairness in this debate.

“Nobody’s telling the person who is trying to set up the lawn service business that he doesn’t have to pay his loan,” said U.S. Supreme Court…

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Peaceful Sightseers at the Capitol!

By WJ Astore, Bracing Views Guest Commentator

This week at Fox News, Tucker Carlson suggested the rioters were mostly peaceful respectful sightseers.

Yoda, the Jedi Master, once told Luke Skywalker that the future is difficult to see because it’s always in motion. So too is the past. Always…

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How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse

By Sonali Kolhatkar, Independent Media Institute Guest Commentator

The billionaire CEO returned to Starbucks to curb union activity. His union busting has been so egregious that the company’s already poor reputation is now in tatters.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, in a recent interview with CNN’s Poppy Harlow, proudly showed off his newest invention: a tablespoon of olive oil added to a…

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