Protecting the DC Circulator

Protecting the DC Circulator

By Bakari Height The mayor’s office of Washington DC is cutting a vital service to the riders, visitors, and especially workers of the region- the red yellow colored downtown buses known as the DC Circulator.  Originally created to serve a void in the larger metro...
Is UPS Meeting Its Heat Commitments?

Is UPS Meeting Its Heat Commitments?

Members of Teamsters Local 657, which represents workers at 22 UPS facilities in Texas, rallied August 28 to demand the company move faster on the union contract it signed with the Teamsters last year. Workers at UPS represented by the Teamsters won protections for...
Champions: Lois Gibbs

Champions: Lois Gibbs

“Champions” features current and historic figures who can inspire the struggle for a worker- and climate- safe world. Photo credit Wikipedia Commons Lois Gibbs was born in a blue-collar area of Grand Island, NY; her father worked in steel mills and her mother...
Will Polycentrism Solve the Polycrisis?

Will Polycentrism Solve the Polycrisis?

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Listen to the audio version >> Unilateral US dominance is increasingly challenged in the era of overlapping crises that is now often being referred to as “the polycrisis.” This has led many countries to...
US vs. China

US vs. China

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Listen to the audio version >> In barely a decade the US and China have moved from tacit alignment to existential rivalry. Impacted by and impacting the other dynamics of the convergence of crises that...