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Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Labor and allies pressure Congress to pass American Rescue Plan February 24, 2021 3:18 PM CDT By Rosalío Muñoz And Janice Rothstein AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Secretary-Treasurer Liz Schuler speak with President Joe Biden and other administration officials about the American Rescue Plan in the Oval Office, Feb. 17, 2021. | White House photo LOS ANGELES—The urge...

Conversations with Ryan Graham Chair, Libertarian Party of Georgia, About Austro-libertarianism and Much More We three probably agree on 99% of libertarian theory. Strategy and tactics are a very different thing. We all have the same goals, we diverge virtually only on means. Best regards, Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 3:01 PM Dear Walter, I listened to the show today and appreciate the tone of the conversation very much. It was a good conversation between two people who disagree(and not really on much). Thanks for all you do. As a side note, I often refer to your evictionism theory regardi...

Advocates on both sides flood Capitol Hill with calls, emails Democrats want to make wage increase part of virus relief February 16, 2021 1:24 PM By Megan R. Wilson A proposal to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 has triggered a fierce lobbying battle on Capitol Hill, pitting some powerful business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce against large labor unions and civil rights coalitions. These groups have been holding virtual meetings and mobilizing grassroots letter-writing and phone call blitzes to sway lawmakers, particularly moderates in both parties, a...

“Be sure that when your parents were younger and when my parents were younger, they also worried about who liked, and did not like them. That is a big part of what it means to belong to a social group. We worry about this constantly as individuals. Human beings are fraught with this sense,” says political psychologist Prof Rajen Govender of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, UCT. Today, technology has, in many ways, given us an instrument to enhance our sense of belonging: that one instrument can have simplified the way we connect with each other is astounding, and from “b...

Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism? Punishment can radicalize and further alienate people, while social policy and grassroots community building can defuse potential violence. January 22, 2021 Shay Horse / NurPhoto / Getty In response to law enforcement’s hands-off approach to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, some on the left have demanded harsher policing of right-wing extremism to match the often-brutal treatment of Black Lives Matter and leftist protest. That is, the very people who supported police reform or outright defunding over the summer seemed to want a ...