Indiana University Graduate Workers Submit Cards, Seek Union Election

Patrick McGerr The Herald-Times
The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America submitted 1,584 union cards to the Indiana University last week, representing almost two-thirds of the roughly 2,500 graduate students working at IU.

How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America

Ruth Milkman Dissent Magazine
The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America by Sarah R. Coleman Princeton University Press, 2021 The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration still with us today

Paul Buhle and the Rise of Socialist Comics

Paul Von Blum The Progressive
The historian has been at the forefront of telling the lost stories of U.S. radicalism—in comic book form—for nearly two decades.

Friday Nite Videos -- Oct 31 (Rock the Vote 2014)

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Bad Reputation (music video). Rock The Vote Presents: #TURNOUTFORWHAT. Democalypse 2014 -- Ad of Brothers. Lewis Black Says F#%! Voter Suppression. What Would Happen Under a Republican Senate?

Bad Reputation (Music Video)

In 2013, there were more laws passed to limit women’s reproductive rights than in the entire previous DECADE.

Rock The Vote Presents: #TURNOUTFORWHAT

Rock The Vote Presents #TURNOUTFORWHAT starring Lil Jon and featuring Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Natasha Lyonne, Fred Armisen, E.J. Johnson, Darren Criss, Sophia Bush, Ireland Baldwin, Devendra Banhart, Ioanna Gika and Gabriel Valenciano.