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Derek Seidman

@derekseidman.bsky.social
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writer + researcher • labor, corporate power, militarism, climate • contributor: truthout + littlesis • buffalo ny partisan

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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"The Buffalo campaign can also be seen as one expression of a wider strategy being deployed by movements across the U.S.: attempting to isolate and ostracize ICE by driving a wedge between the agency and the public-facing corporations and billionaires that enable its operations." For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center
Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 03/10/2026
Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.
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A Growing Movement Is Working to Evict ICE From Its Buffalo Command Center
Activists are pressuring Buffalo corporations to kick ICE out of the office building where it is imprisoning children.
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Police removed dozens of residents and arrested Noura Erakat at a September meeting in Palm Beach County, Florida. The county holds $1 billion in Israel Bonds, making it the world's largest investor. Organizers told me they want their tax dollars invested at home, not in fueling violence abroad.
newsletter.mariannedhenin.com
World's Largest Israel Bonds Investor Quashes Dissent at Public Hearing
Police removed dozens of residents and arrested Noura Erakat at Tuesday’s meeting in Palm Beach County, Florida.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here is Robert Kraft being lauded by Netanyahu in 2019. Kraft pledges to create a foundation to fight BDS and defend Israel, equating this with combatting antisemitism. This was actually posted on the Patriots website in 2019 - later taken down. web.archive.org/web/20190621...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/09/2026
Robert Kraft and most of his children are major donors to the United Democracy Project, DMFI, and AIPAC, having donated several million dollars combined to the three PACs across dozens of denominations. Kraft recently barred Macklemore from opening for singer Ed Sheeran at a stadium he owns.
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AIPAC’s Network Has Already Spent $67.2 Million to Shape the Midterm Elections
The giant influx from American Israel Public Affairs Committee PACs is a case study in money distorting politics.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My latest for @truthout.org - on the Big Oil execs, directors and shareholders profitting off of the war on Iran.
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Oil Change International @oilchange.org · 25/08/2026
Trump's war on Iran has claimed thousands of lives and driven up the cost of living for millions of working people. Meanwhile, Big Oil cashes in. bit.ly/3UlZjWC
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Big Oil Is Seeing Windfall Profits as Trump’s War on Iran Drives Up Prices
Amid the destabilization and devastation caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, oil executives are raking in billions.
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: Billionaires (and their corporations) do not make for good neighbors. Read about four billionaires who are advancing a pro-corporate, anti-worker agenda across New York State. LINK: littlesis.org/news/ny-bill...
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“The sheer scale of this consolidation is extremely alarming." On NextEra's acquisition of Dominion that will create a corporate mega-utility to profit off the data center boom - and what it all means for energy democracy and for ordinairy ratepayers. For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
NextEra’s Acquisition of Dominion Energy Would Result in Corporate Mega-Utility
The utility merger seeks to exploit the data center boom for profit and political clout, at ratepayers’ expense.
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
ICE continues to detain our neighbors with the help of billionaire oligarchs and corporate enablers. Learn who these are: littlesis.org/news/the-bil...
A network map shows the corporations and billionaires profiting off of the operations conducted by Immigration and Custom Enforcement.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NextEra - already the biggest US electric utility - is acquiring Dominion, creating a truly massive corporate mega-utility. For @truthout.org - I dive into the deal itself, NextEra's sketchy background, the role of data center profiteering, implications for energy democracy, how to stop it + more.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 12/06/2026
Kushner has been catapulted into billionaire status by the growth of his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, whose key clients are Gulf state sovereign wealth funds overseen by the same regimes with whom Kushner is now involved diplomatically as a U.S. “special envoy for peace.”
truthout.org
New Billionaire Jared Kushner Is Mired in Conflicts of Interest as “Peace Envoy”
Jared Kushner, like the rest of the Trump family, uses the White House for personal enrichment.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has been making deeply politicized + conflict-ridden state pension fund investments by splurging hundreds of millions on Israel Bonds - NY taxpayer dollars that go straight to Smotrich's coffers to advance occupation + genocide. Must read from @noahhurowitz.bsky.social.
theintercept.com
New York Comptroller’s Trip to Israel Raised Ethical Concerns, State Commission Said
Tom DiNapoli’s visit was sponsored by a group with financial ties to Israel Bonds, an investment vehicle that has become an issue in his primary.
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
From its board of director ties to its credit agreements with weapons companies and AI, Citi finances and props up the corporate profiteers behind war, militarism, data centers and AI. Read the full story: littlesis.org/news/citi-is...
Citi’s board of directors is widely interwoven with data centers and artificial intelligence corporations. Since March 2025, Citi has handled more than $75 billion of data center construction financings. An image of a network map spreads out from the top of a Citi bank building. The network map shows the connections of Citi bank's board of directors to data centers and artificial intelligence corporations.
Citi has direct and extensive business with weapons companies and artificial intelligence and data centers. Citibank is one of the lenders behind a $3 billion credit agreement for Lockheed Martin, the world’s top weapons corporation and the largest Pentagon contractor. In 2024 Citi joined other banks in purchasing billions of dollars worth of corporate bonds from Boeing, the world’s seventh-biggest weapons company.
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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Today in news that should both terrify and enrage us:
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The U.S. Army is planning to give 50-year leases to the world's biggest private equity firms to build and operate data centers on Army land to service the military's growing use of AI. For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
Wall Street Is Pairing Up With the Army to Build Data Centers
The Army data center buildout comes as the Pentagon increases its use of AI in military operations.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"The community resistance on both sides of the aisle is so enormous. This feels like the one thing that is connecting everybody together." My new @truthout.org roundtable with three organizers across the US fighting data centers - and their lessons for others.
truthout.org
Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It.
Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Want to defeat a data center in your area? I interviewed three local organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona on how they built movements against data centers in their communities. Lots of very concrete lessons and advice. For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
Want to Resist a Data Center? These Organizers Share How They Did It.
Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I interviewed Bill Hartung about his long history researching militarism and his reflections on the links between research and organizing, past and present. Part of an ongoing @mapthepower.bsky.social series on the history of movement power research.
littlesis.org
Power Research and the Military-Industrial Complex: An Interview with Bill Hartung - Little Sis
An interview with the longtime researcher and author on his history doing movement research around militarism and the critical connections between research and organizing.
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
NEW: We interviewed author Bill Hartung on his long history researching the military-industrial complex and the critical connections between research and organizing against militarism. Part of our ongoing series on the history of movement power research.
littlesis.org
Power Research and the Military-Industrial Complex: An Interview with Bill Hartung - Little Sis
An interview with the longtime researcher and author on his history doing movement research around militarism and the critical connections between research and organizing.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If WNY officials give $1.44 billion in public subsidies to a data center that almost nobody wants, people should at least know that the data center's owner will be a huge, Epstein-tied private equity firm led by megabillionaire Marc Rowan. For @truthout.org.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I wrote about the massive private equity firm and megabillionaire CEO behind the proposed STAMP data center complex in Western NY. From Epstein, to Trump attacks on higher ed, to Gaza -- the power behind this data center stretches well beyond WNY For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
New York Residents Are Fighting a Data Center Backed by a Billionaire Trump Ally
Residents in Western New York are opposing a data center backed by an Epstein-tied private equity firm.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/03/2026
Residents in Western New York are opposing a data center backed by an Epstein-tied private equity firm. buff.ly/S7mtZLK
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New York Residents Are Fighting a Data Center Backed by a Billionaire Trump Ally
Residents in Western New York are opposing a data center backed by an Epstein-tied private equity firm.
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Michael Locker speaks at length about his long movement career, reflecting on the lessons and legacies of power research since the 1960s in this interview with @derekseidman.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/02/powe...
jacobin.com
The Power of Power Structure Research
Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an importan...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an important weapon in civil rights, antiwar, and labor struggles.
jacobin.com
The Power of Power Structure Research
Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an important weapon in civil rights, antiwar, and labor struggles.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Wall Street is helping to drive the data center boom. I wrote about how one community in Wisconsin has come together to take on a data center proposed by QTS, owned by Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm. For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers
Private equity firms are investing heavily in new AI data centers, but local communities are finding ways to fight back.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
My latest for @truthout.org mapping out the Trump-tied megabillionaire consortium that will own and operate the new US TikTok.
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
NEW: “If we really want to change things… this means confronting the power structure that controls and benefits most from the current system.” Check out our deep-dive interview with Mike Locker, a key figure in the rise of movement power research since the 1960s.
littlesis.org
Lessons from a Life of Power Research: An Interview with Mike Locker - Little Sis
A deep-dive interview with the longtime power structure researcher Mike Locker.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I did some deep mapping of the megabillionaire consortium that will own and manage the new US TikTok spinoff. It's as bad as you might think. MAGA-aligned tech oligarchs now own all major US social media. For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
New US TikTok Spinoff Will Be Controlled by Trump-Aligned Billionaires
Trump-aligned tech barons are now set to control nearly all major US social media platforms.
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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Not just Larry Ellison—pro-Trump billionaire Jeff Yass is set to profit from the new U.S. TikTok on two sides. Also in the new ownership consortium: Emirati state-owned firm MGX, and Jared Kushner's circle. By @derekseidman.bsky.social:
truthout.org
New US TikTok Spinoff Will Be Controlled by Trump-Aligned Billionaires
Trump-aligned tech barons are now set to control nearly all major US social media platforms.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New message up on Kenmore Ave in Buffalo.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Read every word of this amazing interview on the organizing and resistance in Minneapolis.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Now's the time to read this @mapthepower.bsky.social guide on how to research the corporate enablers of ICE.
littlesis.org
Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE - Little Sis
Learn about how to research corporations collaborating with ICE in this new guide.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In Buffalo.
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Lauren Parker @lbparker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Want to know how to research the corporations collaborating with ICE? My recent piece with @truthout.org walks you through six steps to understand where to push to weaken ICE's corporate power:
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Check out our latest post: Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE We briefly highlight a few campaigns that are targeting ICE’s corporate collaborators and provide a guide on how you can research these corporations. littlesis.org/news/six-ste...
Six Steps for Researching the Corporate Enablers of ICE, By Lauren Parker. Communities are forming campaigns to peel away corporate support of ICE and weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power. White text on a black background. The background fades into an image of protesters standing behind a long banner that they are holding up at the front of a conference room. The banner reads, “Stop Avelo, Abolish ICE,” and shows the image of a woman with a baby and a blue collar worker with his fist up, a monarch butterfly is pictured on either side of these two characters. The bottom left side of the graphic reads, Read the full story at: littlesis.org/research/news/ [the link is in all lower case letters]. The bottom right side of the graphic shows the LittleSis logo in white.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"Trump wants us to hang our heads and give up, but that’s not happening." New @truthout.org roundtable with immigrant rights and farmworker organizers from AZ, FL + VT who I interviewed in late 2024 after Trump's reelection — taking stock of past year: horrors, heartbreak, resistance, resolve.
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Immigrant Rights Advocates Say Trump’s First Year Was “Much Worse” Than Expected
“Trump wants us to hang our heads and give up, but that’s not happening,” says organizer Rossy Alfaro.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/01/2026
Avelo Airlines’ decision to drop its ICE contract shows that immigration enforcement isn’t inevitable; when communities organize, target corporate complicity, and refuse to normalize deportations, even powerful agencies can be forced to back down.
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Here’s How We Pressured an Airline to End Its Contract With ICE
ICE is not invulnerable. The Avelo Airlines win proves what happens when we refuse inevitability and fight together.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"The Trump administration’s barefaced imperial grab for Venezuela’s oil... is looking to corporate allies like Chevron, which could stand to benefit handsomely from his administration’s action — though this is far from guaranteed." For @truthout.org.
truthout.org
Oil Companies Are Key Partners in Trump’s Imperial Plans for Latin America
Stocks in ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and ConocoPhillips surged the day after Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela.
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Big Oil companies are governed by boards of directors from major corporations. We mapped out some of the current and recent past corporate ties of board directors at Chevron.
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isaac @sevier.io · 07/01/2026
"Public power is a way to actually improve the lives of working-class people. Electric bills are absurd. People are racking up debt. This is a chance to show people that socialism can work." Love to wake up and read @leemzee.bsky.social in @truthout.org with @derekseidman.bsky.social
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As Electricity Bills Rise, Activists Are Demanding Public Control of Utilities
“Public power” organizers are pushing for democratized control and truly public ownership of our energy system.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Fracking companies are salivating over the data center boom. "The demand for power and for AI is like nothing I’ve ever seen.” --Halliburton CEO. I wrote about it for @truthout.org.
truthout.org
Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom
Data centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.
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Tucson DSA @tucson-dsa.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Thank you @truthout.org for including us in this roundtable conversation about the need for Public Power! truthout.org/articles/as-...
truthout.org
As Electricity Bills Rise, Activists Are Demanding Public Control of Utilities
“Public power” organizers are pushing for democratized control and truly public ownership of our energy system.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"Public power is a way to actually improve the lives of working-class people. Electric bills are absurd. People are racking up debt... We’re reaching a crisis point." New @truthout.org roundtable w/ organizers from Tucson + DC on the rising left movement for public ownership of utilities.
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As Electricity Bills Rise, Activists Are Demanding Public Control of Utilities
“Public power” organizers are pushing for democratized control and truly public ownership of our energy system.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I went on FAIR's Counterspin show (one of my favs!) to talk about powermapping Starbucks execs and board directors -- including the close ties between SBUX and Walmart -- amid the ongoing @sbworkersunited.org strike. Listen here: fair.org/home/derek-s...
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Derek Seidman on Starbucks Strike, Mitch Jones on AI vs. Environment
Even Forbes has to acknowledge that even as the Starbucks strike “drags” into a second month, “global support grows.”
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LittleSis @mapthepower.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Do you know who your local billionaires are? We made this research guide to help you get started. littlesis.org/reports/ever...
The front cover of the everybody vs. billionaires guide is pictured in the center of the graphic. A bubble of text reads, “Find resources to help you… identify the billionaires in your backyard, map billionaire influence and networks.” Below that there is a link: bit.ly/EverybodyvsBillionaires [capital e and b]. The LittleSis logo is pictured on the lower right corner in white. The background is mustard yellow, and there is a picture of black and white money stacks.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Here's a map I made of the corporate (and some other) ties and interlocks on Starbucks' board of directors. I wrote about it all here: truthout.org/articles/why...
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LaborLab @laborlab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"Starbucks’s leadership has a close alliance with another anti-union retail powerhouse: Walmart." truthout.org/articles/why...
truthout.org
Why Walmart Wants to See the Starbucks Barista Strike Fail
Corporations far beyond Starbucks want to keep baristas out of unions.
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Derek Seidman @derekseidman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Starbucks fashions itself as progressive on climate. But a longtime board director of Chevron recently joined Starbucks' board. She owns over $2M of stock in the Big Oil giant. Climate activists + striking @sbworkersunited.org baristas have common opponents. Read more: truthout.org/articles/why...
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