Media Bits and Bytes — August 18, 2026
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Surveillance goes haywire
Surveillance goes haywire
Surveillance goes haywire
This Week in People’s History, May 28-Jun 3, 2025
Frederick Douglass’s Unusual Book Tour (1845), Andrew Johnson Goes His Own Way (1865), Fight the Power (1975), The ACLU Takes a Stand (1970)
This Week in People’s History, June 20 . . .
CIA impunity in 1988. U.S. imperialism's baby steps in 1898. Free speech for Nazis in 1978. U.S. responsibility for Vietnam War in 1971. Smallpox-infected presents in 1763. Voting wrongs, not rights, in 2013. Haymarket prisoners pardoned in 1893.
labor
ACLU Staff Union Wins Voluntary Recognition
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union
The union of ACLU national workers, ACLU Staff United, was voluntarily recognized by ACLU management. ACLU Staff United is organized with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), IFPTE Local 70.
labor
ACLU Staff Union Wins Voluntary Recognition
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union
The union of ACLU national workers, ACLU Staff United, was voluntarily recognized by ACLU management. ACLU Staff United is organized with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), IFPTE Local 70.
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