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Trump’s Flagrant Racism

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
It’s the flip side of Trump’s DEI for incompetent white people.

UFCW President Stepping Down, Successor To Be Appointed This Week

Lisa Xu Labor Notes
United Food and Commercial Workers President Mark Perrone is expected to announce his retirement this week. The reform organization Essential Workers for Democracy (EW4D) is pushing for a transparent and democratic process to choose a successor.

This Week in People’s History, May 14–20, 2025

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A campaign button for the May 14, 2000, Million Mom March
Gun Control? What’s That? (2000), Many Bullets, No Justice (1970), Famous But Unknown (1950), What’s In a Name? A Lot (1990), Riot or Rebellion in Miami? (1980), Lay Down that Sword and Shield (1960), Strong-Arm Tactics Aren’t Pretty, But . . (1960)

Mahmoud Khalil’s Letter From Jail to His Son

Mahmoud Khalil The Guardian
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction. Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

The ‘Disappeared’: Lessons From Latin America

National Security Archive National Security Archive
We can’t help but connect what is happening in our country today to a long history in the Americas of governments’ use of enforced disappearance. Three experts with direct experience provide lessons in how to protest, to mobilize, to fight back.