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August 19, 2020 at 9:16 PM

The daily life of those fighting for $15 and a union: Bettie Douglas

The daily life of those fighting for $15 and a union: Bettie Douglas By Al Neal  The rank and file workers that came before us said a union was not the union hall nor the labor temple, nor was it the elected union officials that come and go. T…

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August 16, 2020 at 11:48 AM

Special Guest

Dear John, I am writing to urge you to register for tonight's Town Hall on the Unemployment Crisis.   I'm happy to annouce we'll be joined by Sister Cori Bush, the Democratic nominee for St. Louis' 1st Congressional district!   Click here to …

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August 14, 2020 at 11:20 PM

Trump admits crippling Postal Service to sabotage 2020 election

Trump admits crippling Postal Service to sabotage 2020 election By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON–A president falling in the polls and desperate to hold onto power is delaying delivery of life-saving medicine and crippling the U.S. Postal Service to stop…

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August 12, 2020 at 10:05 PM

Selection of Kamala Harris as VP candidate makes history

Selection of Kamala Harris as VP candidate makes history By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—In a move that is widely expected to boost voter turnout and push Donald Trump out of office in less than 83 days, presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Bid…

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August 12, 2020 at 2:33 AM

Voter intimidation? GOP sending 'poll monitors' to watch who votes

Voter intimidation? GOP sending ‘poll monitors’ to watch who votes By Eric Tucker and Nicholas Riccardi WASHINGTON (AP)—Since 1937, the state of Pennsylvania has had strict rules about who can stand in polling stations and challenge the eligibility …

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August 11, 2020 at 2:09 PM

Demand $600 extension

Dear John, I am writing to urge you to register for Sunday's Town Hall on the Unemployment Crisis.   Our goal is 1000 registrations.  Today we have reached 775. Can you help us reach 800 by midnight? Click here to register. Trump's Saturday e…

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August 10, 2020 at 10:43 PM

Letter Carriers union files nationwide grievance against mail slowdown scheme

Letter Carriers union files nationwide grievance against mail slowdown scheme By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—The Letter Carriers union has filed a national grievance, an unusual move, against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who took over the agency, p…

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August 7, 2020 at 6:52 PM

Supporting the unemployed

Dear John, Unemployment is at Depression levels, and with the new surge in COVID-19 infections, joblessness may grow still worse. The important HEROES Act, if passed over GOP objections in the Senate, will relieve o…

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August 7, 2020 at 4:33 PM

Postmaster General, a Trump crony, admits slowing the mail

Postmaster General, a Trump crony, admits slowing the mail By John Wojcik Trump’s Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, admitted yesterday, in a closed-door meeting with lawmakers, that he is behind the wave of mail delays rolling across the country in r…

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August 6, 2020 at 7:29 PM

On 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, nuke threat rises

On 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, nuke threat rises By Mark Gruenberg HIROSHIMA, Japan—Tick…tick…tick. That’s the ominous sound of the Doomsday Clock today, the 75th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. The gruesome…

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August 5, 2020 at 7:18 PM

Threat of strike forces Chicago to cancel school re-opening plan

Threat of strike forces Chicago to cancel school re-opening plan By Mark Gruenberg CHICAGO—The Chicago Public Schools have backed down from their plan to reopen school buildings in August despite the coronavirus pandemic. City Mayor Lori Lightfoot a…

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August 4, 2020 at 8:55 PM

Tsunami of evictions underway as moratoriums end

Tsunami of evictions underway as moratoriums end By Regina Garcia Cano and Michael Casey BALTIMORE (AP) — Kelyn Yanez used to clean homes during the day and wait tables at night in the Houston area before the coronavirus. But the mother of three los…

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August 3, 2020 at 9:00 PM

Demands grow to free 'Grace,' Black teen jailed over homework

Demands grow to free ‘Grace,’ Black teen jailed over homework By Joel Wendland-Liu Racism in the U.S. criminal justice system undermines its legitimacy. It raises fears that justice is impossible, especially for people of color. The racist police ki…

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July 31, 2020 at 5:45 PM

GOP sneaks $8 billion for military weapons into coronavirus relief bill

GOP sneaks $8 billion for military weapons into coronavirus relief bill By Andrew Taylor WASHINGTON (AP) — A new $1 trillion COVID-19 response package by Senate Republicans is supposed to give the government more weapons to battle the surging corona…

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July 31, 2020 at 12:01 PM

Trump's call to delay election is the opening act of a coup

Trump’s call to delay election is the opening act of a coup By C.J. Atkins Donald Trump’s proposal to postpone the 2020 election is nothing less than the opening act of a coup. The aim is not to actually delay the vote, as only Congress has that aut…

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July 31, 2020 at 10:01 AM

Historic freefall: Economy shrinks by 33 percent, 2M more jobless

Historic freefall: Economy shrinks by 33 percent, 2M more jobless By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—The economy tanked in the second quarter of 2020, from April through June, government data shows, as U.S. gross domestic product—the sum total of all good…

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July 29, 2020 at 9:02 PM

Is Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton the next Trump?

Is Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton the next Trump? By C.J. Atkins Amidst a public health catastrophe that’s already taken 150,000 lives in this country and a national anti-racist uprising which has mobilized millions, the extreme right is methodically p…

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July 28, 2020 at 9:27 PM

150,000 dead of coronavirus in U.S.: What monument will they have?

150,000 dead of coronavirus in U.S.: What monument will they have? By Eric A. Gordon We can barely begin to count the multiple overlapping crises in our country right now. You know them all, and doubtlessly you’re dealing with some or all of them in…

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July 27, 2020 at 9:58 PM

You need to know: GOP maneuvers to block Heroes Act will bring the roof down

GOP maneuvers to block Heroes Act will bring the roof down By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON — Unless Congress acts, acts fast, and acts the way the Democratic-run U.S. House wants it to act, millions of people will fall off a cliff—financially and other…

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July 24, 2020 at 8:07 PM

AOC: "Rep. Yoho called me, and I quote, a 'fucking bitch'"

AOC: “Rep. Yoho called me, and I quote, a ‘fucking bitch’” By John Wojcik On the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C., there is a list of a dozen easily recognized features of a society headed toward fascism. High on that list is the oppression an…

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July 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM

Cities challenge Trump's dispatch of federal law enforcement officers

Cities challenge Trump’s dispatch of federal law enforcement officers By Marilyn Bechtel OAKLAND, Calif. – Outrage is growing throughout the country over Donald Trump’s use of federal law enforcement against protesters in Portland, Oregon, and his t…

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July 22, 2020 at 6:32 PM

Bringing empty shoes to honor the dead, nurses descend on Capitol

Bringing empty shoes to honor the dead, nurses descend on Capitol By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Bringing 160 pairs of empty nurses’ shoes to memorialize colleagues lost to the coronavirus pandemic, National Nurses United members descended on the U.S.…

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July 22, 2020 at 11:01 AM

The invisible oppression of the autistic female

The invisible oppression of the autistic female By Chloé Caldasso When I was in the 3rd grade, I befriended a boy who joined our class halfway through the year. He had a difficult time fitting in, to say the least, but I had always been the type of …

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July 22, 2020 at 1:20 AM

'Strike for Black Lives' targets racism, demands HEROES Act passage

‘Strike for Black Lives’ targets racism, demands HEROES Act passage By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Even with a recent raise, thanks to her union contract, Alberta Tapia doesn’t make enough from her janitorial job to keep herself and three other adults…

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July 21, 2020 at 12:01 AM

With secret police, Trump's practicing fascism in the streets of our cities

With secret police, Trump’s practicing fascism in the streets of our cities By John Wojcik Camouflaged secret police turned loose on U.S. citizens in Portland, Oregon, in recent days are likely indicative of what the Trump administration has in stor…

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July 20, 2020 at 9:44 PM

Tens of thousands walk off job in 'Strike for Black Lives'

Tens of thousands walk off job in ‘Strike for Black Lives’ By Aaron Morrison NEW YORK (AP)—Organizers of a national workers strike say tens of thousands are walking off the job today in more than two dozen U.S. cities to protest systemic racism and …

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July 17, 2020 at 7:53 PM

Trump turns to neo-Nazi symbols to attract racist votes

Trump turns to neo-Nazi symbols to attract racist votes By C.J. Atkins It’s really no longer controversial to state that Donald Trump embraces the ideas and thinking of the racist right; he’s been brandishing his bigoted credentials since long befor…

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July 17, 2020 at 4:11 PM

Return or resign: Texas teacher says schools issue reopening ultimatum

Return or resign: Texas teacher says schools issue reopening ultimatum By Dan Wright The coming months will mark the 18th time that I have begun a school year. It promises to be a year like no other, but not for the reasons that we would generally p…

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July 16, 2020 at 12:27 AM

Profile of a killer: Understanding the deadly coronavirus pandemic

Profile of a killer: Understanding the deadly coronavirus pandemic By Adam Geller and Malcolm Ritter Editor’s note: This special report on what is known thus far about the deadly coronavirus was released today by the Associated Press. We publish it …

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July 9, 2020 at 9:46 PM

Supreme Court rules today: Trump is not above the law!

Supreme Court rules today: Trump is not above the law! By MARK GRUENBERG AND JOHN WOJCIK President Trump took to Twitter in a rant today after the Supreme Court, in two 7-2 decisions. said the president is not entitled to immunity from congressional…

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July 8, 2020 at 9:22 PM

Separation of Trump and state: Blocking Republicans' evangelical election strategy

Separation of Trump and state: Blocking Republicans’ evangelical election strategy By John Bachtell  On Monday, June 1, President Donald Trump stood in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., awkwardly clutching a Bible. Moments ea…

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July 2, 2020 at 4:06 PM

First martyr of the American Revolution: Former slave Crispus Attucks

First martyr of the American Revolution: Former slave Crispus Attucks By Chauncey K. Robinson Note from the author: Independence Day can be seen as a controversial holiday. It celebrates the early U.S. colonies throwing off the chains of the British…

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July 2, 2020 at 10:01 AM

Prison and police abolition: Re-imagining public safety and liberation

Prison and police abolition: Re-imagining public safety and liberation By Jamal Rich Since the Trayvon Martin murder in 2012 and the Ferguson uprising in 2014, the Movement for Black Lives has further developed its demands from so-called ‘reformist’…

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July 2, 2020 at 1:23 AM

Sanders: 'National security involves a lot more than bombs'

Sanders: ‘National security involves a lot more than bombs’ By John Wojcik “If this horrific coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, it is that national security involves a lot more than bombs.” That statement by Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared in …

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June 30, 2020 at 8:02 PM

Supreme Court tosses Louisiana anti-abortion law, drawing cheers

Supreme Court tosses Louisiana anti-abortion law, drawing cheers By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—By a 5-4 margin, with GOP-named Chief Justice John Roberts casting the deciding vote, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 threw out a restrictive Louisiana a…

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June 26, 2020 at 7:15 PM

Pandemic Pride: LGBTQ struggle continues, learns from Black Lives Matter

Pandemic Pride: LGBTQ struggle continues, learns from Black Lives Matter By C.J. Atkins This weekend marks a half-century since the first Pride march took place on June 28, 1970. That initial event in New York City, called “Christopher Street Libera…

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June 26, 2020 at 11:01 AM

U.S. coronavirus infection rate now highest since pandemic began

U.S. coronavirus infection rate now highest since pandemic began By John Wojcik More than 45,500 new coronavirus infections were reported in the U.S. overnight, not by the federal government but by state health departments—blowing out of the water b…

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June 24, 2020 at 9:26 PM

Progressives rack up impressive victories in June 23 Democratic primaries

Progressives rack up impressive victories in June 23 Democratic primaries By John Wojcik Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled to a blowout victory in her Democratic primary yesterday in her New York City Congressional District that covers parts of t…

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June 24, 2020 at 3:58 AM

Push to reopen early behind current COVID outbreak in South

Push to reopen early behind current COVID outbreak in South By John Wojcik The current coronavirus outbreak in the South and West is explained by the loosening of restrictions and lockdowns that began on the Memorial Day weekend, according to the na…

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June 23, 2020 at 12:08 AM

Hundreds of thousands join the New Poor People's Campaign virtual March

Hundreds of thousands join the New Poor People’s Campaign virtual March By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—From eradication of poverty, an end to U.S. racism, to dismantling the war machine and creating a Green New Deal with thousands of well-paying jobs—…

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June 18, 2020 at 11:40 PM

'Workers First' car caravans drive mass turnouts nationwide

‘Workers First’ car caravans drive mass turnouts nationwide By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—From Fairbanks to San Juan and from Bangor to Honolulu, workers nationwide turned out June 17 in car caravans, at press conferences, and in call-ins to lawmaker…

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June 17, 2020 at 12:13 AM

Supreme Court bans discrimination on the job against LGBTQ people

Supreme Court bans discrimination on the job against LGBTQ people By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Civil rights groups, gay rights groups, the AFL-CIO and other unions hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 15 ruling outlawing job discrimination against l…

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June 16, 2020 at 3:23 AM

U.S. government's legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions

U.S. government’s legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions By Joel Wendland-Liu Trump lies. Habitual dishonesty, whether it is masking the jobs crisis, the pandemic, or downplaying racism, is his signature feature. It has cost lives and t…

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June 11, 2020 at 8:33 PM

Trump hails Confederate names, monuments, and military bases

Trump hails Confederate names, monuments, and military bases By John Wojcik and C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON—Donald Trump said yesterday he would “not even consider” renaming Army installations that honor Confederate traitors who fought to protect an auto…

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June 11, 2020 at 4:15 PM

Voter suppression in Georgia portends catastrophe for November

Voter suppression in Georgia portends catastrophe for November By Mark Gruenberg ATLANTA—The big story in the political party primaries on June 9 wasn’t who won or lost, but voter suppression in Georgia – and what that could mean for November’s ball…

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June 9, 2020 at 10:13 PM

Keep marching: From streets to voting booth and back again

Keep marching: From streets to voting booth and back again By Joe Sims With a nationwide uprising over the public execution of George Floyd, and Trump’s use of military force in D.C.’s Lafayette Square, the country has entered an extremely dangerous…

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June 9, 2020 at 3:40 AM

Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the world

Black Lives Matter movement sweeps the world By Combined Sources Hundreds of thousands of people gathered this weekend in cities far from the United States to express anger over the death of George Floyd, a sign that the Black Lives Matter movement …

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June 5, 2020 at 9:31 PM

Nation mourns George Floyd as uprising against racism continues

Nation mourns George Floyd as uprising against racism continues By John Bachtell Beneath the backdrop of unrelenting coast-to-coast multi-racial protests, six days of mourning began for George Floyd with a memorial service at North Central Universit…

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June 5, 2020 at 7:05 PM

Trumka, other labor leaders, commit unions to the fight against racism

Trumka, other labor leaders, commit unions to the fight against racism By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Declaring that working people are saying, “We’ve had enough,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said unions will continue the fight to root out system…

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June 3, 2020 at 9:09 PM

Voters dump a white supremacist and make a Black woman mayor

Voters dump a white supremacist and make a Black woman mayor By John Wojcik In the midst of the worst multi-layered crisis in U.S. history, the nation has cause to celebrate today after voters in two states delivered a powerful double victory to the…

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