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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.

AP Investigation: Feds' Failures Imperil Migrant Children

Garance Burke
Advocates say it is hard to gauge the total number of children exposed to dangerous conditions among the more than 89,000 placed with sponsors since October 2013 because many of the migrants designated for follow-up were nowhere to be found when social workers tried to reach them.

Viewpoint: The Flint Water Crisis from the Ground Up

Sean Crawford Labor Notes
It's like living in "some sort of a dystopian novel," Sean Crawford writes, to find National Guard troops going door to door delivering drinking water on his street. To skimp on water costs, the governor and dictatorial emergency manager exposed the whole city to lead poisoning.