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This Week in People’s History, Sep 9–15, 2026

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Sanctuary activists preventing INS van from deporting refugees
Activists Resist U.S. Government Deportation Spree (1981), Round Up the Usual Suspects! (1901), ‘Freedom Began Here’ (1851), Sunshine Is the Best Disinfectant (1976), A Billion Here, A Billion There, Pretty Soon You’re Talking About Real Money (1996)

Labor Day Lessons: Can CIO Best Practices Aid Union Organizing Today?

Steve Early CounterPunch
In his new book, Unions, Race, and Popular Democracy: Building a Progressive Labor Movement (Cornell), sociology professor Kim Scipes examines parallel efforts to build two CIO unions in the Midwest—via the Steel Workers and Packinghouse Workers.

India’s Gen Z Protests Are Breaking the Grip of Fear

Ashok Kumbamu Jacobin
The protest movement by young people in India has challenged the culture of fear that protects Narendra Modi’s Hindutva government. They are carving out the space for a future without Modi and his divisive authoritarian agenda.

Labor Unions Are Growing, but Where Depends on State Politics

Kevin Hardy Wisconsin Examiner
More Americans are turning to unions as a bulwark against the rising cost of living, and more public sector workers turned towards unions last year in the wake of some federal actions and federal headwinds.