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Work Stoppages for Black Lives

Peter Olney Organizing Upgrade
Basketball players (and others) struck for Black Lives. The NBA Players Association won an agreement from owners to use arenas as polling places. Other unions have also signed a statement supporting Work Stoppages for Black Lives: What next?

Trump’s Empty Shell of a Promise to Renters

Diane Yentel Shelterforce
abandoned housing
The time for political games, half-measures, and brinkmanship has long passed. Without significant and sustained congressional action, 30 million to 40 million renters are at risk of being evicted by the end of the year.

A Call To Arenas! Defend the Right To Vote! Defeat Trump!

Peter Olney The Stansbury Forum
Milwaukee Bucks sports arena
Imagine NBA Stars -- outside giant sports arenas used as public polling and voting locations -- acting as poll watchers insuring that urban voters, Black and brown folks, file in unsuppressed by armed Para fascists.

The life-changing magic of cookbooks

Gemma Croffie Vittles
Recently, the boundaries of what a cookbook is or should be are changing, including cookbooks as a form of resistance.

The Young Eugene V. Debs

Tim Davenport, Shawn Gude Jacobin
A pair of leftist historians has undertaken compiling a six-volume collection of Eugene Debs’s writings and speeches. We spoke with one who detailed Debs’s journey from moderate young trade union leader to courageous socialist militant.