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May 22, 2020

In First Area Labor Election Since Start of Pandemic, Food Processing Workers Join UFCW

Sarah Macaraeg Commercial Appeal

Cookies on a conveyor belt with workers in the background

Dozens of workers in Byhalia, Mississippi who work for one of the country's leading producers of cereal and baked goods voted Wednesday in favor of joining the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, known as UFCW.

May 22, 2020

So Much for America

Amaud Jamaul Johnson Southern Review

In a time when the murder of African Americans in plain sight terrifies the news, Poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson captures the feeling of capture.

March 14, 2014

Friday Nite Videos -- March 14, 2014

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Outrage at Obama on Funny or Die. Riverdance Flashmob. Cosmos: First Look. 10 Minutes of History from Tony Benn.

Outrage at Obama on Funny or Die With Nick Galifianakis

March 14, 2014

Who's angry that President Obama appeared on "Between Two Ferns (Funny or Die) With Zach Galifianakis" to promote Obamacare?

St. Patrick's Day Riverdance Flashmob

March 14, 2014

A gorgeous public performance of Riverdance on St Patricks Day, 2011, in Central Station, Sydney, Australia.

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

March 14, 2014

A first look at the stunning new science series hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. For a discussion of the relation of science and religion in the first episode, go here.

March 14, 2014

Tony Benn, Veteran Labour Politician, Dies Aged 88

Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason The Guardian

Tony Benn served in the House of Commons and in Labor cabinets, but he was perhaps most influential after he resigned from Parliament. He wrote and campaigned in favor of genuine democracy tirelessly, and on other issues including against the invasion of Iraq.

March 14, 2014

The Battle for Chattanooga: Southern Masculinity and the Anti-Union Campaign at Volkswagen

Mike Elk In These Times

Conversations with workers on both sides of the union battle reveal that the macho culture at the plant, helped fuel the anti-union campaign by low-level management and workers, who stressed obedience to authority and masculine self-reliance as reasons to reject the UAW.

10 Minutes of History from Tony Benn

March 14, 2014

Tony Benn, a leading figure of the Labour Party for two generations, gives an impassioned 10 minute history lesson. An obituary for Benn, who died on Mar 14, is here.

March 14, 2014

Lawsuit Opposes 'Co-located' Private Schools

Leonie Haimson

The placement of private schools in public school space is overcrowding public schools and blocking efforts to reduce class size. A lawsuit spearheaded by NYC public school parents opposes such 'co-location.'