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Teacher Strikes Continue: "There is Nothing that can Halt our Revolution" - It's Going Down The following statement comes from the West Virginia Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and discusses the current strike wave in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and beyond. Nine months ago, rank-and-file educators across the state of West Virginia began planning insurrectionary, direct action efforts to op...

Call in campaign for J20 defendants happening TODAY! This will be followed by an April 10th day of solidarity! Support for all political prisoners and those facing state repression; they are in there for us, so we are out here for them❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️

J20: Fighting the Trumped up Charges - It's Going Down CrimethInc. offers up some new resources and a reminder that today and tomorrow there is a call-in campaign to demand that the remaining J20 charges are dropped, and on April 10th there is a call for a day of solidarity. Thus far, the J20 case has been a humiliating fiasco for the state. The first s...

Unwavering solidarity with striking teachers in Kentucky and Oklahoma! 🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤🔥

IGD Oklahoma and Kentucky: Tens of Thousands On Strike - It's Going Down Cover photo: Timothy D. Easley / AP Today, tens of thousands of teachers and school staff, joined by supporting community members, parents, and students, walked off their jobs across Oklahoma and Kentucky, inspired by the historic West Virginia teacher’s strike, which saw masses of teachers across...

Get Involved Tell the Off-Broadway League to pay a ! Read the petition Actors' Equity members understand that producing Off-Broadway Theatre can be challenging. But when Off-Broadway Theaters and Producers... pay most actors $593 — sometimes as low as $361 — a week, gross for 40-64 hours a week w...

We can think of millions of working people who aren't techies who need student debt forgiveness.

Clinton’s pledge to forgive student debt of entrepreneurs, not average workers, will benefit the... Hillary's "Initiative on Technology & Innovation" reflects her Reaganite, neoliberal, technocratic worldview

11.6 million jobs gained in the recovery — 73% — went to people with bachelor’s degrees or higher.

College-Educated Workers Now Dominate the Labor Market College-educated workers are now the largest share of the workforce, a new study finds, after gaining the bulk of the jobs in the recovery.

Jobs with Justice San Francisco is leading the way to hold tech companies accountable!

Proposed San Francisco Tech Payroll Tax Would Raise Millions Tech companies in San Francisco have received millions of dollars in tax breaks for years, but now some city politicians want to make an exception to that rule.

This is an important math lesson for college administrators.

Arithmetic for College Presidents – Faculty Forward Network Arithmetic for College Presidents 17.06.2016 Guest Writer Adjunct, Faculty Forward Network, Fordham University, Jesuit Colleges and Universities, underpaid workers 0 Dear University Presidents and Provosts, and other “high-ranking” administration officials (not to mention men's athletic coaches) who...

"We understand that there is a deep crisis in the for-profit education sector. All evidence points to continued deterioration." -Angus Johnston, a United States Student Association alumnus and student activism historian. Find the report at aft.org/sites/default/files/hied_toobigtofail2016.pdf.

Morning must read: The Supreme Court upholds affirmative action admissions policy at the University of Texas a 4-3 decision.

Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas The case challenged a part of the admission program at the University of Texas at Austin that takes race and ethnicity into account.

This is terrifying and reflects how so many corporations have turned billions in profit off from the financial aid -- and resulting student loan -- system.

When Poverty Is Profitable A new book details how foster-care agencies and other safety-net programs hire consultants to maximize their funding and divert it from its intended use.