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Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program is a Massive Violation of Human Rights
On August 11, 2022, workers in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) penned an open letter about their experiences in the program. “As it currently stands,” they wrote, “the [SAWP] is systematic slavery.” The article was written by Jamaican workers, but they asserted that migrants of other nationalities had faced similarly dehumanizing experiences. “It feels […]
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Losing Honestly and Gracefully
After election defeats, political writers are quick to explain that if only the politicians had read my book and followed my advice, things would have been different for our side. My pitch is a bit different. Please read It’s Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics, but not for a winning electoral strategy. If candidates opposed […]
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Expanding the Possible, from Below
The Green New Deal has been largely blocked at the national level, but it is thriving in communities, cities, and states. Jeremy Brecher’s new book is both an urgent call to action and proof of concept. Starting where we’re at Less than one week after Trump was re-elected to the single most powerful political office […]
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Deliberate Israeli Targeting of Palestinian Children Becomes “Local News” on the BBC
Imagine an experienced Ukrainian surgeon breaking down in front of a committee of British MPs as he related how Russian forces had been deliberately targeting Ukrainian children. Imagine the surgeon had had to operate in desperate conditions on young children who had been lying injured after a Russian bombing attack and who were then ‘picked […]
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When Will the General Assembly Suspend Israel?
The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him. Numerous interpretations of the story exist, and more than one version has […]
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Blinken Atrocious in a Dangerous World
It is hard to credit one of the least impressive Secretary of States the United States has ever produced with any merit other than being a plasterwork that, from time to time, moved with caution on the world stage for fear of cracking. On the stage, Antony Blinken’s brittle performances have been nothing short of […]
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Maori MPs Perform War Chant in Parliament
Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke performs a Haka in parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, November 14, 2024 © X / @StrayDogNZ New Zealand’s parliament was suspended on Thursday after lawmakers from the Maori Party tore up a copy of a controversial bill on tribal rights and performed a traditional war chant in the legislature. For nearly two centuries, […]
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