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In this ongoing "Interviews for Resistance" series, experienced organizers, troublemakers and thinkers share their insights on what works, what doesn't, what has changed, and what is still the same. Today's interview is the twelfth in the series.

Arkansas poultry workers, Brooklyn warehouse workers and house cleaners, Twin Cities roofers, and thousands of students in places like Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Charlotte, North Carolina. They were all among the tens of thousands who stayed home from work or school across the country during Thursday, February 16’s “Day without Immigrants.”

Henwick spoke how the series is looking to investigate the Asian stereotypes that spawned the character, rather than rely on them. When asked about concerns over the character’s Orientalist origins, Henwick recounted her own recent journey from actively avoiding Asian character roles to embracing them — so long as there’s something meaningful to say.

After national leaders of the Building Trades unions met with President Donald Trump January 25 and heaped praise on him, two Labor Notes readers sent in their thoughts. One is a local assistant business manager, the other a retired communications staffer for the Electrical Workers (IBEW). Here are excerpts from both.

The laws’ intent is increasing the penalties for protest-related activity to the point that it results in self-censorship among protesters who have every intention to obey the law.

This was first time in more than three decades that a federal court ruled for the plaintiffs in a partisan-gerrymandering suit after a full trial. It also dealt a critical blow to a very particular kind of gerrymander—call it “extreme seat-maximization”—that emerged in Wisconsin and a handful of other states in the most recent redistricting cycle.

For Sylvia Serfaty, mathematics is all about truth and beauty and building scientific and human connections.

Scholars from multiple disciplines around the world, weigh in on the social, psychological and political issues impacting transgender students.

This week marked the first recess of the 115th Congress, when lawmakers typically return home to meet with their constituents in what are usually sanitized low-key town hall meetings. But this year the "Resistance Recess" campaign is giving Republican legislators an earful. Constituents, mobilized by the election of President Trump, have seized on the town hall meetings, at least 90 in the South alone, to voice their opposition to the Republican legislative agenda.

Former labor secretary and progressive congressman call for unity against Trump after party race that became symbol of centrist-progressive divisions.