Seth Sandronsky

Seth Sandronsky is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Black Agenda Report, Capital & Main, CounterPunch, Earth Island Journal, Monthly Review, Race and Class, Review of Radical Political Economics, Sacramento News & Review, Socialism and Democracy, The Progressive Populist and Z Magazine, among other publications. A brother, father, grandfather and uncle, he lives and writes in Sacramento, Calif.

US Labor Unions Push Back At Trump On Pipelines And Environmental Deregulation

As Trump wages a ‘shock and awe’ campaign of rolling back climate and environment-related rules, many organized labor unions are speaking out against projects like Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines, which they say will bring environmental chaos and not many jobs.

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Jeff Holland takes a picture of some of the 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors that reflect sunlight to boilers that sit on 459-foot towers Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 in Primm, Nev. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, will be opened formally Thursday after years of regulatory and legal tangles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

WASHINGTON --- President Donald Trump claims that his energy policy creates high-wage construction jobs. Some of organized labor in the United States agrees with him, including North America’s Building Trades Unions, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions. On Jan. 24, NABTU released a statement in

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MintPress Investigates: School Districts Using GPS, Ankle Bracelets, & Smartphone Tracking On Truant Kids

GPS monitoring, ankle bracelets, smartphone tracking — these are just some of the tactics school districts are imposing on truant students. And software companies eager to pad out their bottom lines with government funds are happy to help.

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SACRAMENTO, California --- Both inside and outside the classroom, more and more U.S. students’ lives are increasingly digital and Internet-based. Tapping into public school students’ smartphones and tracking their whereabouts is a booming business for some companies looking to grow their bottom lines. Yet this data gathering is happening through

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