Ranked-Choice Disaster

Coloradans and Nevadans will decide this fall on switching to a form of voting that will chiefly benefit gazillionaire candidates.

The UN Summit of the Future Stuck in the Past

A draft action plan would perpetuate an international investment regime that grants corporations excessive power to undermine public interest regulations.

Dallas Black Dancers Fight for Their Union

Leave it to performing arts unions to make a picket line that grabs attention. The rally outside Dallas Black Dance Theatre included a drummer, line dancing, and spontaneous performances from the unionized dancers.

Trump’s Anti-Haitian Hate Has Deep American Roots

The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.

Media Bits and Bytes – September 17, 2024

What “balanced” coverage covers up about Trump’s bombast and Project 2025

This Week in People’s History, Sept 18–24

Movie poster for documentary film "The Sorrow and the Pity"
The Sorrow and the Pity Rewrites History (1969), The Dawn of Women’s Suffrage (1893), Millions Protest Global Warming (2019), Thelonious Monk’s Musical Signature (1954), An All-Star Cast Says ‘No Nukes!’ (1979), The Chicago Eight on Trial (1969)

Working Class to the Left of Rich on Economic Policy

The new research, said one union leader, provides Democrats with a "clear roadmap to winning back" working-class voters.

Presidential Immunity Didn’t Fall out of a Coconut Tree

The six Supreme Court justices who invented presidential immunity are not 'conservative.' A series of interventions by Federalist Society judges have rewritten the United States Constitution and democratic rules in favor of plutocratic interests.

Harsh Laws Are Being Used Against Climate Protests

Rather than safeguarding basic rights of freedom of expression, assembly and association, many countries are looking to outdated legislation or enacting new laws restricting peaceful protest and imposing disproportionate punishments.

The Armageddon Agenda - the Race to Oblivion

The next president will be making critical decisions regarding the future of the New START Treaty and the composition of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Given the vital stakes involved, such decisions should not be left to the president and close advisors.
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Culture

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Can You Go Broke Eating Fruit?

Ethan Freedman Ambrook Research
Some produce purveyors offer exorbitantly priced fruit and claim unparalleled quality — but are we mostly paying for a status symbol?

poetry

Counting the Dead

Susan Cossette New Verse News
Minnesota poet Susan Cossette addresses the ultimate misogyny—“Faceless, nameless shadows…/Now, we matter more in death.”

Labor

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Autoworkers Have Made Both Candidates Pay Attention

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Anyone wanting substantive discussion of jobs in last night’s debate was disappointed. But because of the UAW’s organizing and strikes over the past year, both Trump and Harris felt compelled to insist they were the best candidate for autoworkers.

labor

Boar’s Head Plant Shuts Down

Edward Carver Common Dreams
A union statement said the closure was "especially unfortunate" because workers shouldn't be punished for the deadly outbreak, but a deal protecting employees' livelihoods was reached.

labor

Boeing Machinists Strike

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
Workers in yellow jackets holding Strike Against Boeing signs. The rejected contract covers 32,000 workers in Washington and Oregon, members of Machinists District 751 in Washington and W24 in Oregon. Most work at the two plants near Seattle. It’s the largest strike in the U.S. this year.

labor

‘Hard No’: Boeing Workers React to Tentative Agreement

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
Hundreds of workers chanting “Strike! Strike!” at Boeing’s Everett, Washington, factory marched out during their lunch break on September 8, a few hours after the Machinists union recommended a tentative agreement with the company. They will vote Sep

Friday nite video

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School Lunch | John Oliver

John Oliver discusses school lunch programs in the US and why giving kids free lunch is in all of our best interest

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How to Debate | Sarah Cooper

Same words, same voice, but Sarah Cooper brings a whole different perspective to The Debate