In The Gap features everyday Black women and experts alike sharing their personal experiences and insights on how the gender pay gap, pay discrimination and systemic inequality affects the lives—and livelihoods—of Black women.
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Belabored Podcast #200: Back to the Streets of Chicago
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For the 200th episode of Belabored, Sarah and Michelle speak to Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Stacy Davis Gates about what it’s like to be an educator and an organizer during a pandemic and an uprising against police brutality.
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Seward Co-op Workers Hold a 2pm Work Stoppage
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The workers called upon their own store leadership and their union UFCW Local 663 to publicly support the “defunding” and “dismantling” of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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Belabored Podcast #199: Radical Seattle, with Cal Winslow
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For a short time in 1919, the working class ran the city of Seattle. Radicals experienced intense police violence, and those deemed “outside agitators” faced deportation. The story of a general strike.
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Postal Workers from Burned S. Minneapolis Station Rally in Solidarity with #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
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The press conference was followed by solidarity march to 38th and Chicago (site of George Floyd’s murder)
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John Oliver: Defunding the Police
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As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.
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NBC News Special Report: Nationwide Protests Over Death Of George Floyd
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NBC News full special report covering the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.
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Organizing workers w/ Zenei Cortez, Kali Akuno, & Vijay Prashad
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This May Day special brings together international perspectives from nurses, workers cooperatives, and socialist movements.
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International Workers Day 2020
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Organizers called on US Bank, Governor Tim Walz and the Minnesotan Legislature to suspend rents, mortgages and guarantee safe shelter for everyone without accumulation of any new debt during the COVID-19 crisis
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Pandemic, protests and profits
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Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders, even though health experts say that could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.