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Supporters of the NGO Sea-Watch hold flags and rescue blankets during a demonstration in solidarity with the German captain of rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, on July 6, 2019 outside the Chancellery in Berlin. (Omer Messinger/AFP via Getty Images)

As Europe shuts out migrants, activists are pushing back

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Protesters chant slogans during a protest on June 12, 2019 in Hong Kong China. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Hong Kong protesters point toward a new internationalism

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Don Emmert)

How the media misrepresents the debate over the Green New Deal

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FILE- In this Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012 file photo, a Bangladeshi child works at a clothes-dyeing factory in Narayanganj, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new study by the London-based Overseas Development Institute found that thousands of Bangladeshi children who live in the capital's slums are working illegally for an average of 64 hours a week. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File) (AP)

6 years after Rana Plaza collapse, an accord to improve Bangladesh’s worker safety is in jeopardy

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In this photo taken Aug. 17, 2016, a farm worker trims grape vines in a vineyard in Clarksburg, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) (AP)

Farmworkers demand freedom from sexual violence

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks to the Filipino community in Singapore on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

The Philippine labor movement is beginning to turn against authoritarian rule

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How drug companies price patients out of survival

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It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault

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A protester chants during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York. (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-4961p1.html'>J. Henning Buchholz</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Reuters)

Revolutionary or comedian

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