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Did They Get Away With It? Most 1/6 Convicts Got No Jail Time.

January 7, 2022

Though there have been over 700 charges in the probe, most of these charges have been low-level and most rioters who have been convicted have received no jail time at all. Will the probe expand to include the leaders?

The Humans That Lived Before Us

January 7, 2022

It's not easy to say what makes a human -- to define the boundaries of the family. But we now know that it's a big and complex picture, with lots of amazing relatives in it.

January 7, 2022

Image Comics Workers Have Officially Certified Their Groundbreaking Union

James Whitbrook Gizmodo

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In an industry that has been historically resistant to unionization, even as other creative and adjacent fields around it have come to embrace unions, Comic WBWU is currently a rarity.

January 7, 2022

We See You

Angela Decker Rattle

Oregon poet Angela Decker speaks calmly but insistently—“We see you”—to the “plague” of race murders.

January 6, 2022

The Risk of a Coup in the Next US Election is Greater Now Than It Ever Was Under Trump

Laurence H Tribe The Guardian

Republicans are busy undermining the next election. Giving up on democracy isn’t an option. We must fight back. ‘The temptation to seize power will surely tantalize a political party that seems openly hostile to the very premises of democracy.’

January 6, 2022

A 1980s Blueprint on How to Be a Leader - Chicago's Harold Washington

Brentin Mock Bloomberg

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council and pushed through infrastructure improvements for all.

January 6, 2022

Mobilization Director of Actors’ Equity, Stefanie Frey, Talks Organizing Theater

Annie Levin Observer

Rank-and-file unionism, nationally, is taking center stage in many strikes and union actions across the country. “The labor movement was becoming hot, members were really getting activated and needed a way to organize and funnel that energy.”

January 6, 2022

Hell on Earth, Small Town-Style - Climate Change, Up Close and Personal

Jane Braxton Little TomDispatch

The horrendous fire near Boulder, Colorado, is reminiscent of last year's disastrous Dixie Fire in California. Locations are different, but this is what the result of our climate crisis brings - up close and personal.

January 6, 2022

Tidbits - Jan. 6, 2022 - Reader Comments: Green New Deal; Martin Luther King; Paul Robeson, 40s, 50s Civil Rights Movement; Fred Hampton; Africa, Congo, Lumumba, CIA; Athletes, Mental Health; Fossil Fuels; Medicare; NYC Labor & the New Mayor; more

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Reader Comments: Green New Deal and 2022, 2024; Omicron; Martin Luther King; Paul Robeson, 40s, 50s Civil Rights Movement; Fred Hampton; Africa, Congo, Lumumba, CIA; Athletes and Mental Health; Fossil Fuels; Medicare; NYC Labor & the New Mayor; more

January 6, 2022

Ron Kim Targets a New York Progressive Heavyweight in Allegations of Wage Theft

Daniel Moritz-Rabson The American Prospect

Kim accuses the Chinese-American Planning Council of rampant wage theft—and, in coordination with 1199SEIU, of blocking workers’ access to the courts.