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May 7, 2016

Mapping American Social Movements; Through the 20th Century

University of Washington

This project allows us to explore the relationships between social movements by bringing them together in time and space. We map the 353 towns and cities that elected socialists to public office between 1904 and 1920. These are interactive maps that can be filtered on a number of variables while providing detailed information about places, publications, periodicals.

May 7, 2016

'The State Stole my Raise': Workers Sue Alabama Over 'Racist' Wage Law

Jana Kasperkevic The Guardian

Nine months ago Birmingham became first city in the Deep South to raise the minimum wage, then saw it overturned by law described as 'a slap in the face'

May 7, 2016

U.S. Labor: What's New, What's Not?

Kim Moody Against the Current

In a sense, the current debate over just how much employment is or isn’t “precarious” misses the bigger change in U.S. working-class life over the past three decades or more: the decline in living standards experienced by the vast majority of this class. One measure of this is the fall in both hourly and weekly real wages which despite some ups and downs remain below their 1972 level.

May 7, 2016

Treasury Department Rejects Teamsters' Central States Proposal to Cut Retiree Benefits

Timothy W. Martin The Wall Street Journal

Proposed cuts would have slashed members' pension checks by 50% or more.

Donald Trump: Nomination of a Birther

May 7, 2016

Donald Trump started on a lie seven years ago: a challenge of Pres. Obama’s birth certificate. Lawrence O'Donnell looks at the evolution from birther to presumptive nominee.

May 7, 2016

Egypt Jails Journalists for World Press Freedom Day

Ayah Aman Al-Monitor

On May 1, just two days before World Press Freedom Day, Egyptian police raided the offices of the Press Syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists, sparking mass demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s escalating attacks on the media. On April 25, 46 journalists were arrested for covering the mass demonstrations throughout Egypt against the al-Sisi regime’s decision to cede the Egyptian islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia.

May 6, 2016