The AFL-CIO Can Be Reformed
Submitted to Portside
Locally and from the Bottom-Up!
Locally and from the Bottom-Up!
Locally and from the Bottom-Up!
Media Bits and Bytes – September 20, 2022
Portside
When objectivity is impossible, and other media mishugas
Peter Schuman Turns Sketches Into Comics — And Comics Into Street Theater
Seven Days
A sketch in his notebook might become the basis for a comic, Schumann said. "Instead of leaving it hidden on those pages," he said, "start drawing away and make it public.
labor
Claiming Our Right to Study: Building Working-Class Intellectualism in the Struggles for Health Care and Education
University of the Poor Journal
There are good reasons for working class people to distrust formal education systems and scientific research but we can't fall into anti-intellectualism. The University of the Poor's “struggle as a school” is a way to organize in response.
The NIMBY Threat to Renewable Energy
Sierra
In Vermont, everyone loves clean energy—when it comes from someplace else
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - August 17, 2021
Portside
A thousand kinds of crazy in a convulsing world
The Most Important Senate Seat in 2020 Is Bernie’s
The American Prospect
Vermont’s GOP governor could appoint a Republican to replace him and throw everything into disarray.
How Campaigners Convinced Police Chiefs to Dump Israel Junket
The Electronic Intifada
Two high-ranking police officials have dropped out of a planned training junket in Israel after campaigning from local human rights activists.
labor
Vermont Teachers Say They Feel ‘Attacked’ by Policymakers
VTDigger
"Women's Work? Voices of Vermont Educators" details the reality of work for teachers and paraeducators in Vermont. These workers are putting in long hours to meet growing student needs, as the opioid epidemic is on the rise, and child poverty grows. They are spending their own money to buy food and clothes for students. They are supporting their families as the primary breadwinner, and paying off high levels of loan debt. And they feel disrespected because they work in a female-dominated profession.
Vermont About to Become a Hellish Place for People to Work in?
Alternet
Steve Howard, executive director of the VSEA, told NPR recently, “Before you take money out of the paychecks of snowplow drivers, nursing assistants, custodians and administrative assistants … we believe you have a moral obligation to ask for a greater contribution from a broad-based revenue source paid mostly by the wealthiest Vermonters who have had all the economic gains of the last decade.”
Spread the word