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  • Read more about Frances Crowe, Peace Activist and War Resister, Dies at 100
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The labor movement has frequently been written off as dead in recent decades. I’ve never believed it, although there have been times when I felt like checking for a pulse. 

Over the last few years, however, I’ve been thrilled to see a glorious revival, beginning with the 2018 strike by West Virginia teachers and school support workers, a statewide victorious and nonviolent uprising that:

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Chicago youth take part in a FOIA training at Kinetic, a youth program in the city. Photo: AFSC/Chicago

Back of the Yards High School is a primarily Latinx high school on the southwest side of Chicago, where two white police officers are stationed every day to monitor students. 

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  • Read more about Chicago youth use FOIA to expose – and stop – policing in schools 
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