Labor Action Tracker 2022

Johnnie Kallas,Kathryn Ritchie,Eli Friedman ILR School
2022 was yet another important year for the US labor movement, with organizing victories at major private employers and an increase in strikes across the country from the prior year.

20 Years Ago, the World Said No to War

Phyllis Bennis Institute for Policy Studies
A look back at the history-making mobilization against the Iraq War that turned ordinary people into a “second superpower” — one we badly need today.

History Lessons for Antifascists

Helmut-Harry Loewen CounterPunch
A study of strategies that have shaped antifascist mobilizations over the past century, offers lessons for thinking about an “effective and long-term response to the loose coalition of forces that we saw at the Capitol … [an] entanglement that we will continue to see in the coming weeks and months.”

Lessons From Majid Khan’s Release From Guantánamo

David Rosen The Progressive
An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp. That torture was a war crime that should have been—and should in the future be—prosecuted as a criminal act.

Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023

Portside
Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | John Oliver. What Ever Happened to Hazel Scott? Gloves Off: Buttigieg Calls Out Trump Record of Deregulation. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Documentary. The Completely Predictable Resurrection of John Hagee.