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With SEIU’s Raise America campaign, which looks to raise the standards for union janitors across the country, the Justice for Janitors legacy holds critical lessons for how public campaigns win concessions
Shane Burley
Shane Burley is a writer and filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of "Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It." His work has appeared in places such as Jacobin, In These Times, Political Research Associates, Waging Nonviolence, Labor Notes, ThinkProgress, ROAR Magazine and Upping the Anti.
For the student union, this will be just a piece of a larger set of demands to reshape the college’s priorities in order to align with a more multi-racial, working-class base
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The human context of housing policy and practices…
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If we want to envision an anti-austerity movement that can genuinely empower people, we will have to create one that moves beyond austerity altogether