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The Green New Deal in the Cities – Part 1: Boston

Jeremy Brecher Labor Network for Sustainability
Part 1 of “The Green New Deal in the Cities” provides an extended account of the Boston Green New Deal, perhaps the most comprehensive effort so far to apply Green New Deal principles in a major city.

Cesspool of Corruption

Julia Conley Common Dreams
Dems Reintroduce Bill to Impose Supreme Court Term Limits

Six Thousand Machinists Strike

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
The Strike at Spirit AeroSystems, Aircraft Parts Giant in Kansas—Threatening Boeing Production

Returning to Laurel

Jonathan Odell The Progressive
A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentrified present, under the rug.

Ultra Violence

Nelson Lichtenstein Dissent Magazine
Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.

Clearwater Music Festival Keeps Pete and Toshi Seeger's Legacy Alive

Jim Farber; Steven Jonas
This weekend's Clearwater Festival will be the first without Pete and Toshi Seegers, founders and mainstays of the Clearwater organization, started 49 years ago. Pete Seeger lived their lives as peoples' artists, fighting for peace, civil rights, nuclear disarmament, defense of the environment, and as a socialists.

The Rosenbergs were Executed 61 Years Ago Today - The Rosenbergs' Last Letter

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Rosenberg Fund for Children
On June 19, 1953, hours before their execution, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg wrote one final letter to their two young sons: Michael and Robby. Your lives must teach you, too, that good cannot really flourish in the midst of evil; that freedom and all the things that go to make up a truly satisfying and worthwhile life, must sometimes be purchased very dearly...civilization had not as yet progressed to the point where life did not have to be lost for the sake of life.