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A Look at Two Towns, Two Storms and America's Imperiled Poor

Zack Colman and Daniel Cusick E&E News/Climatewire
Workers throw away debris and ruined possessions from a public housing project in Texas.
Hurricanes have done it before, decimating critical shares of an already limited housing stock for financially vulnerable people. Hurricanes Harvey and Florence are the latest to damage public housing and displace its poor residents.

UPS Contracts Rejected

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes
The tentative agreement also does nothing substantial to address drivers’ other big concerns: excessive forced overtime, technological surveillance, and harassment by supervisors.

Yankees Cross Picket Line

Kristin LaFratta MassLive.com
'An insult to all working people in Boston;' union lambasts Yankees for crossing Marriott hotel workers' picketing line

Sixteen Shots and a Conviction

Micah Uetricht and Rachel Johnson Jacobin
Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who shot Laquan McDonald sixteen times, has been found guilty of murder. It's a major victory for Chicago activists and the broader movement against police brutality.

City Lights

Peter Neil Carroll Marin Poetry Center Anthology XXI 2018
In multicultural San Francisco, poet Peter Neil Carroll captures the local support for refugee rights.

German History and Trump's Enablers

Richard E. Frankel History News Network
One of the most important lessons that German history has to offer is less about Hitler than about those around him, many of whom were not even Nazis. The enablers also bear responsibility.

The Chicago Police Conviction Is a Victory for Black Lives Matter

Miles Kampf-Lassin In These Times
In an interview, Black Lives Matter organizer Aislinn Pulley explains why she sees the verdict as a step toward dismantling the systems of racist policing and economic inequality that have defined Chicago for decades.