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Teachers Across California Will Organize Across Districts

Many of the state’s largest school districts have contracts that expire June 30. The California Teachers Association is coordinating strategies across 32 districts.

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Did Some Airbnb Hosts Raise Rents Too High After L.A. Fires?

Housing activists accuse rental giant of excessive payment hikes.

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Survivor of Argentina’s Military Atrocities Sees Popular Resistance to Trump as the ‘Only Way’

Abducted by soldiers as a student in Argentina, author and human rights activist Alicia Partnoy hopes young people stand up for migrant rights.

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Trump’s Budget Director Pick, on Path to Confirmation, Could Hurt Millions of Working-Class Americans Including MAGA Voters

Russell Vought has long proposed deep cuts to social programs like Head Start and SNAP that benefit lower-income people, who were key to Trump's election in both red and swing states.

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Trump Vows to Cut Oil and Gas Rules as New Mexico Looks to Fight Back

The state’s challenge: How to police an industry that generates a third of the state budget and a third of its greenhouse emissions.

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As Activists Mobilize Against Drilling, Oil and Gas Operators Sour on Colorado

Emboldened residents organize to halt Big Oil’s march toward the Rocky Mountain suburbs.

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Trump’s Weapons of Choice: Exclusion, Incarceration and Mass Deportation

A time of fear dawns as the administration calls in the military and promises immigration sweeps.

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Today’s Immigration Raids Ignore a Looming Global Crisis: Not Enough Workers

As California farmers wonder who will grow and harvest our food, falling birthrates are likely to soon force nations to compete for immigrants.

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Fear and Expulsion: Under Trump, History Is Poised to Repeat Itself

The U.S. has repeatedly tried to remove nonwhite people from society, often leading to generational trauma.

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Defensores de derechos de los inmigrantes abren línea telefónica de apoyo a detenidos que enfrentan posible deportación

En el nuevo número de teléfono se podrán denunciar detenciones y enlazar a familiares de los afectados con abogados.

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Immigration Advocates Establish Hotline for Those Arrested Under Threat of Deportation

The phone number can be used to report apprehensions and connect families to lawyers.

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Four Months In, Kaiser Mental Health Strike Remains in a Standoff

The union and health care provider are split over pension and prep time issues.

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Border Crossings Have Declined. Yet ICE Keeps Moving Migrants Out of San Diego.

For those moved to detention facilities elsewhere in the country the odds of winning asylum decrease greatly.

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Maui’s Post-Wildfire Housing Crisis Offers a Warning for Los Angeles

After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong renter protections — and enforcement.

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Under a New Law, California Schools Hope Insurance Changes Lead to More Student Therapy

In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

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How This Teachers’ Union Is Gearing Up for Trump 2.0

National Education Association leader Becky Pringle says her union is preparing to fight for “our students, our public schools and, honestly, our democracy.”

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Immigrant Advocates Have a Message for Trump: Not In California

Head of the California Immigrant Policy Center said the state’s leaders and people are ready to stand against deportations and nativism.

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35,000 Michigan Home Care Workers Double Down on Union Effort

They won status as state employees to get union rights. Now they’re fighting for an election and better jobs.

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Call Center Workers Continue Union Push After Biden Administration Drops Fight

Officials withdrew a rebid of a $6.6 billion contract requiring “labor harmony” 25 days after the $5 billion corporation holding it filed suit.

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How Big Insurance’s Investment in Fossil Fuels Came Back to Bite It

In a vicious cycle, the sector’s financing of oil and gas is having an impact on its bottom line.

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With Union Rights Uncertain Under Trump, Higher Ed Workers Seek to Speed Up Bargaining

Newly unionized Caltech, Occidental workers got union rights under Biden. Trump’s inauguration has them seeking quick contracts.

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As California AI Data Centers Grow, So Does Dirty Energy

Companies are using a shortcut to build ever larger centers that use diesel generators as an emergency power source.

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Uber and Lyft Drivers Ramp Up Push Against ‘Firing By App’

Workers optimistic about national coordination even as a second Trump administration threatens labor rights and immigration crackdowns.

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Will Trump’s Return Be a Devil’s Bargain for Workers Seeking to Organize?

From Uber and Lyft drivers to home care workers, the fate of far-reaching labor organizing efforts hangs in the balance.

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‘We’ve Never Seen This in American History Before’

Historian Sean Wilentz warns Trump’s second term could mark an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of a reactionary movement.

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