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This Week in People’s History, April 8–14, 2026

Portside
Newspaper headline: 128 killed in Banner Mine
Slavery by Another Name (1911), Who Wrecked the Trains? (1961), It Isn’t Easy to Get the Goods on Corporate Crime (1976), ‘Too Horrifying to Broadcast’ (1966), A Great and Good Man, but No Saint (1876)

Data Center Wants Subsidies of $6.4 Million per Job

J. Dale Shoemaker
An upstate New York industrial development agency is offering tax breaks worth $801 million - with more subsidies likely on the way - to create just 125 jobs at a business park, an example of corporate giveaways around the country.

How To View Protests Like an Organizer

Tim Hjersted Tim Hjersted Substack
An organizer looks at a mass protest and sees something completely different than the cynic does. Scofing at people showed up and did the work to turn out millions while offering no alternative is just inaction with an alibi.

Pushing From the Outside, In

Paul G. Pinsky Portside
As left activists who choose electoral work, we can both maintain ideological clarity while also remaining politically pragmatic. That can be done. In the difficult times we now find ourselves in, that must be done.