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The New Labor Organizing Model of EWOC

Eric Blanc Jacobin
Interest in unions and workplace organizing is high, but proactive workers have few opportunities to launch their own organizing drives. The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is trying to change that.

What Immigrants Do Eat

Anand Giridharadas The.Ink
There may be no better case for the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-everything society America is becoming than the flavors. What would America eat, and be, without immigrants?

Florida’s New COVID Booster Guidance Is Straight-Up Misinformation

Arthur Allen, Daniel Chang and Sam Whitehead KFF Health News
Ladapo’s vaccine statement “aligns with Project 2025.” Several critics of Ladapo’s bulletin said it read like a tryout for a job in a Trump administration advised by longtime anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

This Week in People’s History, Sept 25-Oct 1

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William Patterson addressing the 1949 Bill of Rights Conference
Bill of Rights Birthday (1789), Nixon’s Nightmare (1969), Resist Illegitimate Authority (1967), “Proletarians of All Countries, Unite!” (1864), Fighting for Free Speech (1909), Racist Violence at Its Worst (1919), When Students Fight, They Win (1964)

Are Sheriffs Above the Law?

Linda Greenhouse The New York Review of Books
County sheriffs are useful to the right. They appear regularly as talking heads on conservative media, especially on the subject of immigration. Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?