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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.

L.A. City Council Votes for Minimum-Wage Hike to $15.37 at Big Hotels

By Emily Alpert Reyes & David Zahniser Los Angeles Times
The higher hotel wage was the product of two years of organizing by a coalition that included labor unions, more than a dozen neighborhood councils, the ACLU and other nonprofits, which billed the measure as a critical step in addressing poverty.