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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.

The Naked ‘Survivor’ Guy Theory of U.S. Politics

Michael Hirschorn The New York Times
If reality television began as a crude simulacrum of real life, today the opposite can feel true — that actual life is approximating reality television, and we’ve all been conscripted as cast members. The contagion has leaked from the lab.

Friday Nite Videos | September 13, 2024

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School Lunch | John Oliver. Bad Faith: Christian Nationalism's Unholy War on Democracy. How to Debate | Sarah Cooper. Cherokee Author Rebecca Nagle on the Ongoing Fight for Tribal Sovereignty. The GOP’s Three-Part Plan to Subvert Elections.

Tidbits – Sept. 12 – Reader Comments: 2024 Elections – the Debate, Young Voters; Not One Child; Israeli Protesters, Netanyahu Sabotages Hostage Deal; Remembering Michael Lerner; Govt Knew Ethel Rosenberg Not Spy Before Trial; More…

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Reader Comments: 2024 Elections - The Debate, Young Voters; Not One Child; Israeli Protesters, Netanyahu Sabotages Hostage Deal; Remembering Michael Lerner; Govt Knew Ethel Rosenberg Not Spy Before Trial; Fight for School Integration; Announcements;

Silencing the Voice

Amy Bachrach Portside
This January 26 was the first “Australia Day” following October's defeat of landmark constitutional referendum recognizing Australia’s first nations people by enshrining in the Constitution an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament