More than 31,000 healthcare workers walked off the job at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California and Hawaii. They weren't protesting wages or working conditions. They were testing a fundamental question: in an industry where you can't simply shut the doors and wait out a dispute,…

Over 34,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente across California and Hawaii pulled off something unusual in American labor history—they didn't throw everything at the wall on day one. Instead, they planned a step-by-step strategy that turned what could've been a brief symbolic action into a…

Renée Good was shot and killed by a federal immigration agent outside her vehicle in Minneapolis, and thousands took to the frozen streets. One month later, 42 people were arrested during a commemoration protest at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building. The question now facing…

Hundreds gathered outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on a subzero February night, marking one month since ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired three shots through Renée Good's windshield, killing the 37-year-old mother of three. What began as a memorial service escalated into…

Protesters marched through downtown Minneapolis—over 50,000 of them in −20°F temperatures, their glasses fogging over, frost crusting into thin films on their faces. More than 700 businesses closed. Members of the clergy knelt on airport roads and were arrested. Labor unions marched alongside radical activists.…

A Minneapolis mother of three was shot and killed by an ICE agent on January 7. What followed was a month-long campaign that shut down businesses, filled jails with clergy, and forced the federal government to pull back 700 agents. The resistance to Operation Metro…

More than 15,000 anti-ICE activists managed to get demonstration towels into the hands of Super Bowl attendees—and onto national television—by doing something counterintuitive: they didn't disrupt anything. As 70,000 fans streamed into Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, volunteers from Contra-ICE handed out free rally…

At its peak, approximately 34,000 healthcare workers were on strike at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California and Hawaii in what was the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history. By examining how one of America's largest nonprofit health systems is managing this crisis, we can see…

More than 35,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers are engaged in what organizers call the largest coordinated unfair labor practice healthcare strike in recent U.S. history. It started with 31,000 nurses and health professionals walking out on January 26, then escalated when 3,000 to 4,000 pharmacy…

About 4,000 pharmacy and laboratory workers walked off the job at Kaiser Permanente on February 9. They joined 31,000 nurses and healthcare professionals already on strike—transforming what was already the largest healthcare strike in recent U.S. history into something more complex. The question isn't about…

Over 35,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job in what unions are calling the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history—a carefully orchestrated two-wave action that began with nurses and expanded to pharmacy and lab workers, targeting the specific services that keep a massive health…