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Amazon Strike by the Numbers

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
Amazon workers participated in pickets or short strikes in December. The strikes were in limited locations but a real test of capacity for a growing movement.

This Week in People’s History, Jan 8–14

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Image of a Alabama Educational TV presenter on set
Educational TV Gets Schooled About Race (1975), ‘It Was the Right Thing To Do’ (1930), Negligence Kills, But Only the Victims Pay (1860), Paul Robeson Is John Henry (1940), New Technology Remakes an Industry (1960), A Classic Ragtime Spiritual (1925)

This Land Is Your Land: The Story Behind the Song

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Today, this classic folk song is usually sung as a popular pro-America anthem by Americans of every background. But it was written to have a radical edge that hollered for the country to make its bounty available to rich and poor alike.

We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s

Adam Reiner Taste Cooking
Trader Joe's copying products
Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brands crying foul at the company’s blatant and aggressive copycat culture.