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This Week in People’s History, May 21–27

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A thoroughly ransacked draft board office
“Take Your War and Shove It!” (in 1969) |“The Shape of Jazz to Come” (1959) | The Battle of Toledo (1934) | No Taxation Without Representation (1764) | “Unite We Must” (1963) | Good Luck, Huddled Masses (1924) | Close Only Counts in Horseshoes (1918)

The Art of the Green New Deal

Benjamin Y. Fong Jacobin
Jobs to Move America is pioneering an innovative labor strategy that turns public investments in green infrastructure and manufacturing into opportunities for union organizing and better working conditions.

Handling Hardship: Data on Economic Insecurity Among Amazon Warehouse Workers

Sanjay Pinto, Beth Gutelius Center for Urban Economic Development - University of Illinois, Chicago
Our data indicate that roughly half of Amazon’s frontline warehouse workers are struggling with food and housing insecurity and being able to pay their bills. That’s not what economic security looks like.

The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel

Ronen Bergman, Mark Mazzetti The New York Times
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.

Sunday Science: A New Test for Quantum Gravity

Sabine Hossenfelder Sabine Hossenfelder
After countless attempts to develop a theory of quantum gravity, physicists are now trying their hand at measuring it through various experiments. This week we have a new proposal for an experiment, and it's a quite clever idea. Let’s have a look.