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A Radical Proposal for Radical Times

Aviva Chomsky NACLA
Amidst a national flurry of immigrant rights initiatives, the Immigrant Worker Center Collaborative of Boston (IWCC) came up with a proposal that was radical in its simplicity: a demand that President Obama pardon all undocumented people in the United States.

These Hotel Workers Took On Trump -- and Won

Jonathan O'Connell and Drew Harwell The Washington Post
Workers at Trump’s Vegas hotel voted to unionize last December after several months of campaigning. A labor agreement, though, was slow to materialize until last week, when over a few days, union representatives and Trump Organization executives negotiated a four-year contract, taking effect Jan. 1, that will cover roughly 520 housekeepers, bartenders, servers, porters and other staff at the hotel.

Building a Mass Socialist Party

Sam Gindin Jacobin
The response to Bernie showed that a socialist party in the United States is possible. But there is no shortcut to building power.

Teaching Civics in the Time of Trump

Panyin Conduah Bill Moyers and Company
Do we need a new Schoolhouse Rock! to remind us how to run a democracy? “Many teachers were scared this year to teach on the election because of the polarization in the country,” Louise Dube said. “They were concerned because they felt that their administration would not back them up in teaching it.”

Is Russian Election Hack Just the Beginning for America?

The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board The San Diego Union-Tribune
In 2000, UC San Diego professor Chalmers Johnson expanded on his observation in his book “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire.” Johnson, who died in 2010, argued that the United States would inevitably face the same sort of dirty tricks it had played around the world, paying a price for trying to dominate far-away lands.

#GentrifierInChief

Right To The City Right To The City
Trump’s recent cabinet nominations show deep allegiance to Wall Street and his intention to continue the policies of displacement, gentrification and rising rents at the expense of the American People.

Dirty Threads, Dangerous Factories: Health and Safety in Los Angeles’ Fashion Industry

Garment Worker Center and Others UCLA Labor Center
In collaboration with the Garment Worker Center and UCLA Occupational Safety and Health (UCLA LOSH), the UCLA Labor Center just released Dirty Threads, Dangerous Factories: Health and Safety in Los Angeles’ Fashion Industry. The study finds that fast fashion, an approach that moves garments from design to shelf at an accelerated pace, leads to dangerous working conditions for garment workers.