Yellow Stars
“I will not be invisible,” writes NY poet Elizabeth Zelvin of her Jewish female identity, “I will not be herded/…I do not accept your yellow stars.”
Auto Workers Strike Plants at All Three of the Big 3
Labor Notes
“For the last 40 years, the billionaire class has been taking everything and leaving everybody else to fight for the scraps,” UAW President Fain said. “We are not the problem. Corporate greed is the problem.”
Ig Nobel Prizes 2023: Rock Licking and Other Unlikely Winners
New Scientist
The year 2023 brings a new crop of 10 Ig Nobel prizes, each for a piece of research chosen with the same simple criterion – that it makes people laugh, then think.
Alvin Bragg Keeps Winning in the Trump Hush Money Case
MSNBC
The delay in Bragg's hush money case against Donald Trump is a victory for democracy. It makes room in the schedule for perhaps the most important of the criminal cases against the former president: his federal election interference trial.
Earth ‘Well Outside Safe Operating Space for Humanity’, Scientists Find
The Guardian
The first complete ‘scientific health check’ shows that most global systems are now beyond the stable range in which modern civilization emerged
‘No Justice, No Jeeps!’ Scenes From the Auto Workers Strike
Labor Notes
“The GM CEO, she got 36 percent in raises since our last contract, making $26 million,” one worker says. “Like Fain said, they’re price-gouging the American public for billions of profits. They don’t earn that, sitting around eating bonbons.”
Why Auto Workers Are Striking
Auto workers are fighting for a 40% pay increase — the same raise that Ford, Stellantis & GM CEOs have seen over the past 4 years.
Paul Robeson | "Joe Hill"
The towering cultural and political figure, Paul Robeson, memorializes a great labor organizer and martyr in song
Lisa Simpson's Union Strike Folk Song | Dan Cribbs
Union Strike Folk Song from Dan Cribb and David Novak's album Worst Tribute Ever
GmacCash | On Strike (UAW)
Rapper Gmac Cash is an artist who has not only proven he can rap, but he makes you laugh while doing it.
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