Labor’s Upsurge Isn’t Just Hype
Data on what's new — and why unions should turn to new organizing
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Material of Interest to People on the Left
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Material of Interest to People on the Left
The First Decoration Day
The Debt Ceiling Deal
This Week in People’s History, May 30 . . .
Debt Ceiling Agreement
The Clintons and the Rich Women
Ultra Violence
Socialists Want To Crack Down on Israeli War Crimes
Fossil Teeth Reveal How Brains Developed
One Big Union
Wave of Lawsuits Against US Gun Makers
Culture
food
Will ‘Superfood Powders’ Actually Make You Healthier?
New York Times
These once-daily supplements claim to boost energy, nourish your gut, support your immune system and more. But health experts aren’t convinced.
tv
Succession Is Television’s Most Devastating Critique of the Ultrarich
Jacobin
Succession is heading toward its series finale, having settled into a portrait of how the ultrarich’s quest for limitless accumulation crowds out any semblance of humanity. The show is the most potent piece of class critique on TV in recent memory.
poetry
Simply Breathing
Killing George Floyd
Three years after the murder of George Floyd on March 25 2020, San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil offers a limited portfolio of 20 poems as homage and legacy. (More will follow in June.)
books
Amanda Gorman ‘Gutted’ After Florida School Bans Biden Inauguration Poem
The Guardian
Poet Amanda Gorman, 25, vows to fight back after single complaint, which wrongly ascribed The Hill We Climb to Oprah Winfrey, prompts removal.
film
Killers of the Flower Moon Review – Scorsese’s Remarkable Epic About the Bloody Birth of America
The Guardian
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in this macabre western about serial murders among the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma, which reflects the erasure of Native Americans from the US
food
The Irish Fasting Tradition
JSTOR
Particularly before the Second Vatican Council (a.k.a. Vatican II), fasting was part of the Catholic calendar. No one took it more seriously than the Irish.
tv
Succession’s Election Night Painfully Shows Us How Cable News Is Made
Vox
Succession's idea of a media executive personally picking a winner is no longer all that shocking. The recent defamation lawsuit Fox News settled revealed that Rupert Murdoch had been directly involved in making calls for the network.
Labor
labor
MAAN and the Protests for Democracy in Israel: Questions and Answers
The MAAN Workers Association, based in Israel, fights for worker rights and has joined the protest movement for democracy. "Without democracy there are no workers' rights".
labor
Profit-Obsessed Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System
Jacobin
The US hospice system is supposed to provide compassionate end-of-life care. But private equity firms have swallowed up the industry: 7 out of 10 hospice agencies are now for-profit, putting profit maximization over patient well-being.
labor
In 49 States, Your Boss Can Hold You Captive
Working In These Times
Minnesota just banned captive audience meetings, presumably understanding that it is unreasonable to force working people to attend mandatory meetings at which their boss delivers to them the equivalent of an Ayn Rand book reading.
labor
Remote Work Continues To Be a Battleground in the Struggle Between Bosses and Workers
Jacobin
Just because not all jobs can be done at home does not mean that no jobs should be done at home. Working from home won’t end exploitation, but it’s nonetheless an important front on which labor can strive to secure improved working arrangements.
labor
Hot Labor Summer
The Forge
This summer’s labor fights are an important opportunity for an increasingly militant labor movement to win critical battles. But it could be more than that. It might also be an opportunity for allies to begin to build a solidarity machine.
labor
Starbucks Union Demands Company Bargain a National Contract
Huffington Post
The company's insistence on separate contracts for more than 300 organized stores has made the process unworkable, union president says.
labor
Americans Love Unions. The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Gutting Them
Balls and Strikes
For decades, union-busting bosses and Republican politicians have had a powerful ally in their war on organized labor: the United States Supreme Court.
Friday nite video
video
The Corporate Money Behind 'No Labels'
Kyrsten Sinema or Joe Manchin for President? 'No Labels' has emerged as a potential ballot line and financier for a spoiler candidacy.
video
Tina Turner Talks About Gaining Respect in the Music Industry
In this 1985 interview, Anne Rohmer interviews Tina Turner, who has finally risen to the top of the pop music ladder and been honored at the Grammy Awards.
video
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics | FRONTLINE
A year after Uvalde, FRONTLINE, Futuro Investigates and The Texas Tribune document the community’s trauma and the fight over assault rifles.
video
AI Assists 50-Year Math Breakthrough
Researchers at Google research lab DeepMind trained an AI system called AlphaTensor to find new, faster algorithms to tackle an age-old math problem: matrix multiplication.
video
Jim Jordan Shut Down at 'Whistleblower' Hearing | Brian Tyler Cohen
Jordan's witnesses are not really whistleblowers, but they are very much deserving of being fired from law enforcement and having their security clearances revoked.
video
Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover)
Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, debuted 60 years ago, in May 1963. It marked the beginning of the period of Dylan's intense political engagement, including the songs Masters of War, Blowin' in the Wind and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.
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