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It Is Time to Take Action for Workers’ Rights

Do you remember why you applied to Swarthmore? In the 2022-2023 U.S. News rankings, Swarthmore was ranked as the #4 liberal arts college in the country. The class sizes are generally small, which allows professors and students to connect more meaningfully. The

April 13, 2023

Highlights·Opinion

Update on Our Movement for a Fifteen Dollar Student Worker Minimum Wage

In late spring 2022, Solidarity at Swat circulated a petition which asked the Swarthmore College administration to raise the student worker minimum wage to $15/hr. The text of our petition was as follows: $15 For Work is a multi-organization coalition dedicated to

February 2, 2023

Opinion

It Doesn’t Matter Which Oligarch does Censorship for the National Security State

As it became apparent that Elon Musk would not be able to sleaze his way out of owning Twitter, Democrat and Republican media immediately resumed their commentary about Twitter’s future. While Democrat-aligned media have rekindled their anxious rhetoric about how Twitter might

November 3, 2022

Opinion

Swarthmore Owes Its Students More

It can be difficult to be a student at Swarthmore. You are constantly trying to balance school work, a social life, sleep time, and possibly a job. There is always something that might throw your precariously teetering and hard-earned balance into disarray:

September 22, 2022

Op-Ed·Opinion

Biden DOJ’s Prosecution of Assange Shows an Abject Failure to Protect the Freedom of The Press

Content Warning: This article contains discussion of multiple sensitive topics On Dec. 10, 2021 (which was ironically international human rights day), the U.K.’s high court ruled that Julian Assange may be extradited to face trial in the U.S. and on Jan. 24,

February 3, 2022

Opinion

Nationwide Strikes: A Resounding Rebuke to Labor Shortage Hysteria and a Path Forward for All

Epigraph: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings.” – Ursula K. Le Guin By: Swarthmore YDSA Coordinators In the early summer of 2021, a hysterical carousel of pundits rotated around a media circus wailing

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Tarang Saluja

It Is Time to Take Action for Workers’ Rights

Update on Our Movement for a Fifteen Dollar Student Worker Minimum Wage

Swarthmore Owes Its Students More

Biden DOJ’s Prosecution of Assange Shows an Abject Failure to Protect the Freedom of The Press

Nationwide Strikes: A Resounding Rebuke to Labor Shortage Hysteria and a Path Forward for All

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