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Workers over Billionaires Labor Day Protest
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500,000+ March in Labor Day “Workers Over Billionaires” Events Nationwide
This Labor Day, more than five hundred thousand laborers, families and community members showed their resistance against the…
// News, Opinion
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A Two-Tier Housing System: Columbus tenants keep calling for help, but the city keeps closing their cases
Columbus is in the middle of a building boom. Sleek apartment towers climb skyward, marketed with rooftop lounges and pet spas. Rents stretch past $1,500 for one-bedroom units. But a very different Columbus exists on the other side of the leasing…
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Stars, Stripes, and Skidmarks
Donald Trump has signed an unconstitutional executive order banning protected speech. He is ordering that anyone who burns an American flag should receive a year in jail.
So I guess it doesn’t matter if the flag is desecrated, but only how…
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Everybody Knows is working on the railroad
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan talk about the importance of unions and spin union movement tunes from a serious Solidarity Forever by Leonard Cohen to Salt of the Earth with the Rolling Stones. Hear an unexpected version of The Internationale…
// Opinion