California’s Essential Workers Get Bumped Down Vaccination Line

Mark Kreidler Capital & Main
A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of vaccine for front-line health care workers in Torrance, CA.
Critics of California’s new age-based vaccination scheme say it defies the evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread, and fear largely minority essential workers will fall even further back in the vaccine queue.

Rest in Power, Anne Feeney (1951-2021)

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes
She sang for steelworkers, carwash workers, miners, strawberry workers, railroad workers, anti-sweatshop activists, homeowners fighting foreclosure, public transit supporters, auto workers opposing NAFTA, and many more.

Inaugural

Jericho Brown The New York Times
Pultizer-prize winning poet Jericho Brown speaks to this critical moment—“the single item on the agenda”—that inspires hope at “this American hour of our lives.”

Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem

Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power. 13 million people a year – most of them poor and people of color – are abused by this system.

"Have You Been To Jail For Justice" | Anne Feeney

"Have You Been To Jail For Justice" performed by self-described "performer, producer, hell-raiser" Anne Feeney at the Seattle WTO Protests in 1999. Feeney died from Covid-19 this week at age 69.