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BlackCommentator.com Columnist, John Funiciello, is a former newspaper reporter and labor organizer, who lives in the Mohawk Valley of New York State. In addition to labor work, he is organizing family farmers as they struggle to stay on the land under enormous pressure from factory food producers and land developers. Contact Mr. Funiciello and BC.
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Suffering sickness, disease, and death, the people who have to live in the despoiled region of Ecuador deserve justice, as Donziger deserves justice, but that is, so far, not to be found in American courts.
If there have been two cases in which the evidence is profound, that the U.S. judiciary is solidly in support of the rich and Corporate America,…
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The pair are not "centrists." They are betraying the untold number of working-class citizens who gave them their votes, thinking that their needs would be represented in the Congress. Instead, the two have been representing the needs of two people: Manchin and Sinema.
Manchin is quite transparent. As a multi-millionaire, he is trying to protect his assets and his wealth, most of which is built on coal, a dirty…
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The intention of right-to-work (RTW) advocates was to stop unionization in its tracks and, therefore, to stop workers from joining together to represent their own interests and the interests of their families and communities.
“Right-to-work” sounds like a philosophy that might be beneficial to the working class; it is anything but and most workers do not know that its creator…
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It’s not that they can’t pay a decent wage. They just don’t want to pay a penny more than they have to for the work that is sweated from the people who sew up the clothing. And it doesn’t matter whether they sew for the top of the line or for knock-offs. It’s all the same exploitation.
All the sweatshops are not in Asia or in Central America. Los Angeles, California, is apparently full of them and they keep on stripping the workers…
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Twenty years later, we still don’t know the whole truth about that fateful day, but we have learned a lot about the U.S. government.
If all of its flaws were minimized and the historical record was suspended for a moment, the U.S. was once a nation that other nations sought…
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Many of the most intractable problems of the nation would be mitigated, if not solved, if the people could be brought together to act on the problems of racism, poverty, hunger, disparity in wealth and wages, lopsided funding of education in poor neighborhoods, and lack of healthcare for all.
The war on workers in the U.S. has been going on for a long time, but the firing of 11,500 air traffic controllers by then-President Ronald…
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There is little doubt among the supporters of Steven Donziger that the aim of the entire sham of legal proceedings against him has been to ignore the crimes committed on a massive scale by the likes of Texaco and Chevron against fragile human societies and local ecosystems.
There’s a classic one-panel cartoon that sums up the case against environmental attorney Steven Donziger, who represents about 30,000 people in the Ecuadorean rainforest that was…
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Humanity is a very destructive species and it’s done that work well.
All of the tortured debate in the world’s political life and all of the desperate vying for attention on social media will be as nothing, compared…
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The question, then, is why aren’t they being treated as essential workers now?
Although it may seem that universal child care is a new concept, one that is held in contempt by Republicans across the country, it is an…
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