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Starbucks Tried To Crush Its Baristas. Shocker.

May 17, 2024

Starbucks workers have done what many thought was impossible — force one of the largest corporations in the world to negotiate a union contract.

Donald Trump Sings I Fought the Law

May 17, 2024

Guess who won?

Jon Stewart Gives Sen. Robert Menendez a Corruption Lesson

May 17, 2024

A new segment called 'How Dumb Is You?' asks why engage in criminal corruption when Nancy Pelosi, Richard Burr, and Roy Blunt have been getting away with legal corruption for years.

May 17, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | May 17, 2024

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Jon Stewart Gives Sen. Robert Menendez a Corruption Lesson. Donald Trump Sings I Fought the Law. Starbucks Tried To Crush Its Baristas. How AI Tells Israel Who To Bomb. Bernie Sanders Has Bad News for Trump.

May 16, 2024

“American Lessons” From the Labor Notes 2024 Conference

Salvo Leonardi Stansbury Forum

The key to this grassroots unionism lies in the connection between organizing and collective bargaining aimed at improvements in wages, working and living conditions. What was striking, from an Italian viewpoint, was the lack of political discussion.

May 16, 2024

Tidbits – May 16 – Reader Comments: Trump Trial, Arms to Netanyahu, Campus Protests – Impact on Gaza War, Colleges, Society, Elections; Palestine, Gaza, Israel; Haiti; Kenya; Sing in Solidarity; Song Nights for Social Change; Cartoons; More …

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Reader Comments: Trump Trial, Arms to Netanyahu, Campus Protests - Impact on Gaza War, Colleges, Society, Elections; Palestine, Gaza, Israel; Haiti; Kenya; Sing in Solidarity; Song Nights For Social Change; Cartoons; more ....

May 16, 2024

Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings

Mary Jo McConahay The Progressive Magazine

Along with the United States, Israel provided weapons and training to Guatemala’s military and their campaign against Indigenous Maya civilians from 1974-1996. Israel was a war machine on its own, searching for arms markets and anxious for allies.

May 16, 2024

Trump’s War on Government Will Take Public Health Back a Century

Abdullah Shihipar The New Republic

Trump and his allies are planning to “deconstruct” the administrative state by stripping its power and forcing out tens of thousands of workers. That will put all of our lives at risk.

May 16, 2024

Reflections on Student Activism – and the Struggle for a Better World

William D. Hartung TomDispatch

My most important training came outside the classroom, as a student activist. As I look at the surge of student organizing aimed at stopping the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, participation in such movements can have a long-term impact...

May 16, 2024

In a First, Jewish Biden Administration Staffer Resigns Over War in Gaza

Ron Kampeas Jewish Telegraphic Agency

“I can no longer in good conscience represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” Greenberg Call, 27, wrote in her resignation letter. She attended Jewish day school....