By S. Sadequee [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y family’s connection with my brother dates back to the time when my parents, grandmother, two siblings and I were stationed among the masses of people dressed in two-piece seamless white linen. We were meditating...
By Lori Johnson, an attorney with the Farmworker Unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina As a farmworker attorney in North Carolina, simply meeting with my clients poses an ongoing challenge. This reality became clear to me several years ago while...
By Rob Robinson, Take Back the Land Leadership Committee The movement should be led by impacted communities, primarily women of color. This core principle of Take Back the Land (TBTL) stands front and center on this December 10th, 2013, a day that...
By Francesca Feruglio Background on Assam’s Tea Gardens and Nazdeek The State of Assam, in North-East India, is home to more than half of India’s tea production and one sixth of the world’s production. However, thousands of tea garden...
By Shahinur Begum, Researcher, Sramabikesh Kendra of UBINIG (Center for Labor Education) Introduction Women wage earners are the cheapest in Bangladesh due to the socio-economic condition of the country, which is why so many girls are employed in...
Lailufar Yasmin is an Associate Professor with Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and currently undertaking research on ‘secularism in International Relations’ at Macquarie University, Sydney...
“Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors…in order that the creations of our minds shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and...
Bill Fletcher, Jr. is an internationally known racial justice, labor and global justice activist and writer. The attacks on the public sector over the last several years by the political Right have brought forward increasing concerns about the...
Jonathan Harris is a Brooklyn based labor lawyer and former organizer “Most holidays we celebrate ain’t nothing but scams and lies and tricks and all the real meaning be lost/For me it’s time-and-a-half or just another day off ” from...
From Dissent Magazine In 2011, Wisconsin public sector workers demonstrated to fight changes to their state collective bargaining laws, and upwards of 100,000 workers assembled on the state capitol. Rightly, the workers saw this change by Governor...
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