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The Cross-Border Farmworker Rebellion

David Bacon The American Prospect
Workers in the berry fields of the United States and Mexico have the same transnational employers. Now, farmworker unions in those two nations have begun to work together.

Studs Terkel Made Oral History

Peter Dreier The Nation
Ten years after his death, Terkel’s voice is still a vivid part of our shared experience.

Megyn Kelly’s Original Sin

Megan Garber The Atlantic
It would take just over a year, it would turn out, for the absurdity of Megyn Kelly Today’s founding proposition to come to its full fruition.

We’re the Organizers of the Google Walkout. Here Are Our Demands

Claire Stapleton, Tanuja Gupta, Meredith Whittaker, Celie O'Neil-Hart, Stephanie Parker, Erica Anderson, and Amr Gaber The Cut
A company is nothing without its workers. From the moment we start at Google we’re told that we aren’t just employees; we’re owners. Every person who walked out today is an owner, and the owners say: Time’s up.

Voters in Georgia Must Be Allowed to Vote

Ari Berman Mother Jones
A Federal Court Just Ruled That Thousands of Eligible Voters in Georgia Must Be Allowed to Vote. Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Kemp had blocked over 3,000 naturalized US citizens from voting in 2018.

Charter School Strike

Rebecca Burns In These Times
Chicago Teachers Just Voted 98% to Authorize the First Charter School Strike in U.S. History