Graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants are organizing at private universities throughout the U.S. They’re forming unions, demanding recognition for those unions, and asking for better pay and benefits. But private...
New York City’s street vendors say they have the momentum to do right now what they’ve been trying to do for over a decade: that is, decriminalize the profession. First, they want the city...
New York lawmakers must decide by Monday whether or not to change the state’s rent laws. Currently, the laws govern more than one million privately-owned apartments, preventing landlords from dramatically increasing the rent and...
More than three hundred thousand people from all over the country and world marched through the streets of New York on Sunday to demand immediate, substantial action by governments and individuals to limit global...
In the Chilean port city of Valparaíso, residents are starting to rebuild after massive fires killed fifteen people and leveled nearly three thousand homes this April. The government is offering housing subsidies to those...
Most of Chile’s public school students don’t have classes today. That’s because the Colegio de Profesores, the largest teachers’ union in the country, is on strike and holding marches in all of the country’s...
The Chilean Congress is considering a bill that would institute political gender quotas. Political parties and coalitions would be required to field at least forty percent female candidates. Chilean legislators have tried to introduce...
As Chile faces its second tragedy in under a month—fires that tore through the city of Valparaíso, leaving at least fifteen people dead and another eleven thousand homeless—northern Chile is still struggling to recover...
In Chile, organizations and citizens are coming together to demand a new constitution. They say the country’s current constitution is illegitimate because it was written by former dictator, Augusto Pinochet. To replace it, they’re...
Low-paid workers across the country are agitating for higher wages, and President Obama took up the call in his State of the Union address when he stressed the need for a $10.10 federal minimum....
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