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San Bernardino Amazon Workers Stage Mass Walkout

August 26, 2022

Amazon workers in California demanded a raise. They couldn't believe the response. So 150+ courageous workers staged one of the largest mass walkouts in Amazon history.

This Giant Laser Can Simulate a Planet’s Core

August 26, 2022

How do you study the innards of alien worlds? You just need the world’s largest laser.

America’s Last Affordable Housing Is Under Threat

August 26, 2022

Corporate buyers are purchasing mobile home parks and driving up rents. In Fresno, California, at a park called Trails End, residents fear the worst.

With Indictments Looming, It's Time To Have 'The Talk' With Trump Supporters

August 26, 2022

Are Trump and his supporters being unfairly targeted? It’s time to have “The Talk” about the police. #DailyShow #Comedy

Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis

August 26, 2022

Profiles of Black women educators and activists struggling under the weight of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, in student loan debt. Narrated by Nina Turner.

August 26, 2022

Friday Nite Videos | August 26, 2022

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Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis. With Indictments Looming, It's Time To Have 'The Talk' With Trump Supporters. America’s Last Affordable Housing. A Giant Laser Simulates a Planet’s Core. Amazon Workers Stage Mass Walkout.

August 25, 2022

Gov. Newsom’s Choice: Back California Farm Workers or Help the Rich. Why Is This So Hard?

Melinda Henneberger Sacramento Bee

The bottom-line question is why so many highly profitable companies prefer to spend money to fight the unions instead of offering their vulnerable employees affordable health care coverage and safety from sexual assault.

August 25, 2022

Radical Social Movements As Love Letters: An Interview With Robin D.G. Kelley

Norman Stockwell The Progressive

The author revisits his newly expanded influential work ‘Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination,’ and talks solidarity, reciprocity, and expansive visions of emancipation.

August 25, 2022

Tidbits – Aug. 25, 2022 – Reader Comments: Trumpism; Teaching, History, White Privilege; Labor Films; Resources: Inflation Reduction Act; Long COVID; Who Got Rich off Student Debt Crisis; Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards; Cartoons, More…

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Reader Comments: Trumpism; Teaching, History, White Privilege; Labor Films; Resources: Inflation Reduction Act; Long Covid; Who got rich off student debt crisis; Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards; Cartoons, more

August 25, 2022

At Long Last, Congress Considers a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Bella DeVaan Inequality.org

Domestic workers make all other work possible – yet have been excluded from crucial federal labor protections for over 80 years. In a historic first, Congress held a hearing on policy that would finally change that.