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Mariya Strauss

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Mariya Strauss is a writer and labor and community activist who lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the Economic Justice Researcher at PRA in 2014 and 2015, and has written for numerous publications, most recently the New Labor Forum at the Murphy Labor Institute at City University of New York.

Articles

  • Defending Discrimination in Baltimore County

    A Case Study in Right-Wing Organizing
    Public School 103, Division Street, Baltimore, MD (Photo by Eli Pousson, July 2017)

    In July, President Donald Trump attacked the city of Baltimore on Twitter, using barely-coded racist language (“rat and rodent infested,” “disgusting”) to express his dislike for the majority African American city that just happened to be home to …

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  • In Search of New Frames

    Q&A with the authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots
    Tea Party rally in Plano, TX, April 15, 2009

    A new book, Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, offers a framework for interpreting and dismantling racist capitalist oppression without getting bogged down in this treacherous narrative of “makers and…

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  • Social Justice Feminism and How We Defeat the Right

    The ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency has dramatically worsened an already grave set of challenges confronting justice-minded people, and has presented the women’s movement in the United States with an historic opportunity to create a…

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  • 5 Ways PRA Exposed the Corporate Right in 2015

    During 2015, we launched the new PRA Economic Justice Research Project. Here are five ways our work exposed the Corporate Right’s shenanigans in 2015.

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  • Who was behind Michigan GOP's one-two punch against LGBTQ working families?

    As 2015 winds to a close, Michiganders–especially working people and LGBTQ folks–are reeling from right-wing assaults on both their pocketbooks and their civil rights. I am referring to the one-two punch of new laws passed during the summer…

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  • "Faith-Washing" Right-Wing Economics

    How the Right is Marketing Medicare's Demise

    Koch-funded theologians have developed a scripture-based argument to address populist anger over economic inequality, blending the Christian Right’s traditional Calvinist hierarchies with an economically Darwinist framework that says it is correct…

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  • GOP Lawmaker Reveals ALEC-style Group Pushing Model Anti-Worker Bills

    Even as ALEC, the infamous bill-mill that produces right-wing model legislation for state lawmakers, hemorrhages corporate members and is discredited as a neutral voice in politics, other groups are adopting its tactics. PRA interviewed one…

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  • HR Lobbying Group Leading the Charge Against Labor Department's Overtime Expansion

    With few exceptions, it’s been decades since U.S. employers have had to sit across the bargaining table with their employees’ unions. Now that workers have less ability to protect their own interests, they are more vulnerable to the tricks…

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  • Neo-Confederate South Loses Again – This Time to Free-Market Neoliberalism

    After nine Black churchgoers were gunned down in Charleston, South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag is driving a wedge between neo-Confederates and free-market neoliberals.

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  • Chain Restaurants Post Record Profits While Lobbying to Pay Workers Less

    Restaurants have shifted labor costs onto the backs of tipped workers and their customers—and some big chain restaurants are lobbying state lawmakers to keep it that way.

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  • Meet SHRM

    The HR Association Lobbying & Suing to Roll Back Worker Rights

    Human Resources doesn’t usually conjure up images of adversarial political activism. Yet contrary to its politically neutral image, the innocuously-named Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM, pronounced “sherm”) campaigns for public…

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  • The Religious Right Has Been Pushing Anti-Union Right to Work Laws for A Century

    Christian Right leaders have long helped business leaders whittle away at the economic freedoms granted to working Americans since the New Deal.

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  • About Those Raises

    Walmart’s Latest PR Stunt to Change its Anti-Worker Image While Resisting Regulation

    Depending on whom you ask, up to half a million Walmart associates got a raise yesterday. The raise was won for them by a brave rebel alliance of hundreds of Walmart workers who are interested in the continued survival of Walmart workers. Calling…

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  • Crushing the Dream

    The Business Lobby Groups Blocking Your Paid Leave

    Despite ironclad evidence of the economic and ethical soundness of family leave, workers are still lacking protections — thanks to a coordinated effort by the Corporate Right.

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  • To Shock the Heart of the Nation

    A group of protesters led by Dr. Rev. William Barber II

    An Interview with Rev. Dr. William Barber II, President, North Carolina NAACP

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  • The Economic Argument for Raising Women's Pay

    The Shriver Center’s 2014 report, which uses 2012 data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), can help to make this broader economic argument for raising women’s wages.

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  • Strong Grassroots Energy Pushes Congress to Unanimously Pass Anti-Wage Theft Measure

    As workers’ rights advocates around the country raise their voices in ever-louder protest of wage theft, it appears some in Congress may finally be listening. This week the Congressional Progressive Caucus, led by Reps. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and…

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  • Dark Money, Dirty War

    The Corporate Crusade Against Low-Wage Workers
    A cardboard sign that says Human Needs Before Corporate Greed

    Corporate interests have taken credit for reducing private-sector unions to afraction of their former strength, and for eroding public-sector collective bargaining, especially since the 2010 “Tea Party midterms.” A resurgence in low-wage worker…

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  • California Wage Theft Prevention Bill Puts the Thieves On Notice

    Passed by the State Assembly in a 43-27 vote on May 28, California’s Wage Theft Prevention bill is designed to address wage theft, a catch-all term that workers’ rights advocates use to cover the range of abuses that low-wage workers in the state…

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