- Learning From Our Own History
- The Great Minnesota Strike
- The Courageous Captive Children of Lillie TX
- ICE’s Corporate Enablers
- The Sopranos Stage of Imperialism
- Needed: A Million Midwives
- Highjacking the Midterms
- Starbucks Strike in Louisiana
- LGBTQ Rights at Work
- “Marty Supreme”: Every Man for Himself
Learning From Our Own History
By Mitchell Zimmerman, Common Dreams
Persisting—not surrendering to despair—is part of the struggle. Victory over fascism may not be inevitable, but neither is defeat. We must all become leaders in small or large ways, attempting to persuade and remind others of the dangers and of the injustices that we are fighting against, and urging them to act.
The Great Minnesota Strike
• Our Story So Far By Luis Feliz Leon, Labor Notes
• Showing How By Natasha Lennard, The Intercept
• An Organizer Speaks By Aru Shiney-Ajay, Jacobin
• Somali-Led Resistance By Fatima Khan and Meghnad Bose, The Intercept
• Community is Key By Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic
The Courageous Captive Children of Dilley TX
By Chris Walker, Truthout
An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,” according to an attorney who witnessed the event. The protest took place at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley.
ICE’s Corporate Enablers
By Judd Legum, Popular Information
Amazon Web Services hosts the database known as Investigative Case Management (ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport immigrants. Amazon is one of several consumer-facing brands with deep financial connections to ICE, including Citizens Bank and AT&T.
The Sopranos Stage of Imperialism
By Benjamin Fogel, Jacobin
The attack on Venezuela marks the arrival of the Sopranos stage of imperialism: the transformation of US hegemony into naked extortion. As with the Mafia, loyalty may ultimately buy nothing, and deals can be broken at gunpoint.
Needed: A Million Midwives
By Kat Lay, The Guardian
A global shortage of nearly a million midwives is leaving pregnant women without the basic care needed to prevent harm, including the deaths of mothers and babies, according to new research. Almost half the shortage was in Africa, where nine in 10 women lived in a country without enough midwives, the researchers said.
Highjacking the Midterms
By Chauncey DeVega, Salon
Pro-democracy Americans — and those simply hoping for a return to normalcy — are pinning their hopes on a Democratic victory in November’s midterm elections. But that salvation will not be easy or cheap. Their hopes will face a coordinated effort by Trump and the anti-democracy right-wing to secure victory before a single ballot has even been counted.
Starbucks Strike in Louisiana
By Jason Kerzinski, The Progressive
Starbucks baristas have been at the center of the largest labor fight in their company’s history. Since November 13, thousands of unionized workers have walked off the job at roughly forty-five store locations nationwide, in an unfair labor practices strike they’re calling the “Red Cup Rebellion.”
LGBTQ Rights at Work
By Amanda Becker, The 19th
It will be more difficult, timely and costly for LGBTQ+ workers to seek justice for these and other workplace harassment issues related to their gender identities and sexualities. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, voted 2-to-1 to rescind years-in-the-making guidance that the agency released in 2024 on applying current civil rights laws to workplace harassment.
“Marty Supreme”: Every Man for Himself
By Michael Kanyongolo, The Indypendent
The most impressive aspect of “Marty Supreme” isn’t that it entertains for two and a half hours straight. It’s that it manages to do that and have it all amount to something much more than the sum of its parts. It shows us that to live only for yourself is to live a half-life, to fake your way through reality, always in search of something more. But to live for other people, even just one, is to truly live.
