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January 18, 2025

Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation

Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare Labor Notes

To keep up the offensive fight, defense may be necessary. Organized workers can pressure employers to deny entry to ICE agents who arrive without an arrest or search warrant—or at least restrict the search area only to what is listed in the document.

January 18, 2025

The Urgency of Interracial Solidarity in a Divided Nation

Brenda Victoria Castillo and Marc H. Morial Common Dreams

By pitting Black and Brown communities against each other, shadow actors promote the false notion that democracy and equality are in competition with each other, rather than shared objectives.

January 18, 2025

José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez, Human Rights Activist and Former Chair of Young Lords, Dead at 76

Violet Miller Chicago Sun-Times

“The Young Lords Organization turned political because we found out that just giving gifts wasn’t going to help our people; we had to deal with the system that was messing them over."

January 18, 2025

Amid Layoffs, Cargill’s Owners Given $2B in Stock Buybacks and Special Dividends

Brooks Johnson The Minnesota Star Tribune

As 8,000 employees lost their jobs last month in a cost-cutting reorganization, the Cargill-MacMillan family for the first time since 2019 received profit-sharing payments.

January 17, 2025

Friday Nite Videos | January 17, 2025

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How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. 7 Ways to Cut TRILLIONS in Tax Giveaways to the 1%. Gideon Levy and Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire. Sing Sing | Movie. John Deere Is Calling Trump's Bluff.

How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias

January 17, 2025

A wilderness survival trainer spent two years undercover moving up through the ranks of two militias, gathering a vast trove of information about one of the most dangerous movements in America. Read the story.

7 Ways to Cut TRILLIONS in Tax Giveaways to the 1%

January 17, 2025

What is more wasteful, honestly, than giving huge tax breaks to people who don’t need them?

Gideon Levy and Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire

January 17, 2025

"The main challenge will be the second phase, and here there are many, many problems on the horizon"

Sing Sing | Movie

January 17, 2025

Based on a true story of an individual imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and the real-life Sing Sing Correctional Facility Rehabilitation Through the Arts program. Now returning to theaters. The first film shown in theaters and prisons simultaneously.

John Deere Is Calling Trump's Bluff

January 17, 2025

John Deere has announced more than 1500 layoffs in the last year. We investigated what's behind it — and how to bring those jobs back.