Why India’s Farmers’ Protests Have Sikhs Fearing Violent Attacks

Sunny Hundal OpenDemocracy
In December, Indian farmers march to Delhi to protest recent legislation.
Since India’s farmers protests began last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Hindu nationalist government has tried to violently suppress them, revealing how close “the world’s largest democracy” is to becoming an authoritarian state.

California’s Essential Workers Get Bumped Down Vaccination Line

Mark Kreidler Capital & Main
A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of vaccine for front-line health care workers in Torrance, CA.
Critics of California’s new age-based vaccination scheme say it defies the evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread, and fear largely minority essential workers will fall even further back in the vaccine queue.

Rest in Power, Anne Feeney (1951-2021)

Alexandra Bradbury Labor Notes
She sang for steelworkers, carwash workers, miners, strawberry workers, railroad workers, anti-sweatshop activists, homeowners fighting foreclosure, public transit supporters, auto workers opposing NAFTA, and many more.

Inaugural

Jericho Brown The New York Times
Pultizer-prize winning poet Jericho Brown speaks to this critical moment—“the single item on the agenda”—that inspires hope at “this American hour of our lives.”

Racially Charged: America's Misdemeanor Problem

Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem exposes how our country’s history of racial injustice evolved into an enormous abuse of criminal justice power. 13 million people a year – most of them poor and people of color – are abused by this system.

"Have You Been To Jail For Justice" | Anne Feeney

"Have You Been To Jail For Justice" performed by self-described "performer, producer, hell-raiser" Anne Feeney at the Seattle WTO Protests in 1999. Feeney died from Covid-19 this week at age 69.