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Native Americans Protest Trump Trip to Mount Rushmore

July 3, 2020

"I hope people begin to understand that these were racist white men." Writer Simon Moya-Smith says the Black Hills in South Dakota, where Mount Rushmore is located, have always been a holy place for the Lakota Nation.

The Dangerous Ones | #VoteForOurLives

July 3, 2020

In November, we have one last shot to save America. #VoteForOutLives

The CIA Is Hiring | Trevor Noah

July 3, 2020

The CIA released an ad to help recruit a more diverse workforce. If they have such good spies, shouldn’t they already know who to hire? #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #CIA

July 3, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | July 3, 2020

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The CIA Is Hiring | Trevor Noah. The Dangerous Ones | #VoteForOurLives. Native Americans Protest Trump Trip to Mount Rushmore. “Make AMERICA Again” | Langston Hughes Poem Let America Be America Again. Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel: Commentary

July 2, 2020

An Open Letter to Pacific Northwest Carpenter Union Members, the Construction Industry, and Our Communities about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Racism in Construction

Evelyn Shapiro

We work together as a union to attack racism because racism hurts working people. It hurts our members who are targeted by it and it hurts our members who perpetuate it or ignore it.

July 2, 2020

Union-Building for the Long Haul – The Tale of Boston Fine Art Museum Security Guards

Kurt Stand The Stansbury Forum

I often used to look at the union work as something like walking a tightrope backwards while juggling without a net … The wire must be made of grassroots. The moment the union highwire artist feels those grassroots under foot, they know they are safe

July 2, 2020

Tidbits - July 2, 2020 - Reader Comments: Today's Movement; American Fascism; Carl Reiner and Black Lives Matter; Confederate Monuments; Defund the Military; Police Violence; Slavery in Illinois; Laundry Workers & COVID; Student Voting; Concert for Cuba

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Reader Comments: Today's Movement - Make It Last; American Fascism; Carl Reiner and Black Lives Matter; Confederate Monuments; Defund the Military; Police Violence; Slavery in Illinois; Laundry Workers & COVID; Student Voting; Concert for Cuba; more

July 2, 2020

Remembering Margy Wilkinson, A Life-long Organizer for Social, Economic and Racial Justice

Brian Edwards-Tiekert Berkeleyside

Margy Wilkinson participated in the Free Speech Movement, helped secure a contract for UC Berkeley classified workers, led KPFA and fought to preserve the character of South Berkeley.

July 2, 2020

Tomorrow's World, Today

Collective 20 Collective 20

COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a white knee crushing a Black neck. A dream so long deferred suddenly exploded in city after city. What's next?

July 2, 2020

Will Big Oil Pay a Price for its Lies?

Tina Gerhardt The Progressive

A new D.C. lawsuit targets the world’s four largest oil companies (BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell) for misleading consumers about climate change.