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Chas Walker

politics and culture | social movements | race and class

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The government is failing healthcare workers. Unions aren’t.

As they fight for safer workplaces, unions have become a trusted source of vaccine information for health care workers.

COVID-19, Labor, Race

The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist

Disaster films since the 1990s fail to imagine a future in which ordinary people have a place, let alone one that they build. We need to envision a different horizon.

BlackLivesMatter, COVID-19, Culture, Social Movements, Workers Rights

“Soul Searching” Will Not Stop the Police Murders of Black People

Framing issues of racial oppression and police violence as something to be fixed by examining our inner lives lets existing power structures remain intact and unchallenged.

BlackLivesMatter, Joe Biden, Social Movements

Poverty wages in nursing homes have accelerated the coronavirus outbreak

In the era of COVID-19, nursing home residents and caregivers are paying an even greater price for the low wages and understaffing that plague the industry.

COVID-19, Workers Rights

Frederick Douglass and the Transformational Power of Courage in a Fearsome World

A teenage Douglass fought a notorious slavebreaker in 1833, and the courage he found is relevant to contemporary struggles for liberation.

Frederick Douglass, Philosophy, Social Movements

They called us ‘flat-earthers.’ But we were right.

Reflections on the upsurge of strikes and militancy by today’s social movements from a veteran of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.

Climate Change, Social Movements, Workers Rights

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