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November 12, 2020

Tidbits - Nov. 12, 2020 - Reader Comments: 2020 elections and What Next; Organizing Rural Manufacturing Workers; Honoring Veterans - Ending War; Bolivia; Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War; Announcements; more....

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Reader Comments: 2020 elections and What Next; Organizing Rural Manufacturing Workers; Honoring Veterans - Ending War; Bolivia; the Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War; Resources; Announcements; more....

July 6, 2020

Housing Activists Unite to Fight Mass Evictions and Defund Police

Candice Bernd Truthout

“I just don’t feel that police evicting people is a way to ‘protect and serve.’”

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April 14, 2020

Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns

Laura Bliss CityLab

Bus drivers and subway workers are dying from coronavirus at an alarming rate, and transit union leaders are calling for aggressive action to make them safer.

September 3, 2019

Dispatches From the Culture Wars - September 3, 2019

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Greta at UN; Straight Pride; Texas Shooting; Trump's Terrorists; Locker Room Nudity; Neutralizing the Center; Border Shame

June 11, 2019

Dispatches From the Culture Wars - June 11, 2019

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Here be Socialists; NYPD apologizes for Stonewall raid; Straight Pride; Fairstein's penance; GOP red (state) handed; Trouble in conservative paradise; The real Appalachia

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November 17, 2018

Striking Marriott Workers in Boston Reach Agreement With Hotels

Katie Johnston and John Hilliard Boston Globe

The union, Unite Here Local 26, declined to release details of the agreement until the remaining 5,000 Marriott workers who are on strike in San Francisco and two locations in Hawaii settle their contracts.

September 20, 2018

The Progressive Playbook: How These Candidates Pulled Off Their Upsets; How Insurgent Forces Activated, Educated and Brought the IDC Down

Astead W. Herndon and Kevin Roose; Samar Khurshid New York Times and Gotham Gazette

Among the surprises this primary season were several high-profile upsets from the left. The lessons: The right candidate in the right district; Test. Don’t assume you know who the voters are; Go ahead and embrace the left; Redefine voter outreach...

September 5, 2018

Ayanna Pressley’s Message May Be Potent in Democratic Party

James Pindell The Boston Globe

Pressley can tell her party about how it might expand the electorate. She’s shown that, in her district at least, it can be done.

December 16, 2017

That Was No Typo: The Median Net Worth of Black Bostonians Really is $8

Akilah Johnson Boston Globe

The $8 detail in the Globe’s Spotlight series on race in Boston is not a typo.

September 22, 2017

Friday Nite Videos | September 22, 2017

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Back in Black - Republicans Don't Know What Insurance Is. Hard Hat Stuns Audience With His Piano Skills. You Don’t Need a Brain to Sleep -- Just Ask Jellyfish. No Irish Need Apply | Documentary. Who Belongs in a City? | OluTimehin Adegbeye.

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