Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 3, 2024
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The Great Purge and Resistance 2.0
The Great Purge and Resistance 2.0
The Great Purge and Resistance 2.0
California’s Undocumented Residents Make Significant Tax Contributions
California Budget & Policy Center
California’s undocumented residents contribute nearly $8.5 billion in taxes, playing a crucial role in supporting public services while remaining excluded from essential programs.
Disneyland Workers in Anaheim, California, Vote To Authorize Strike
The Guardian
Largest US strike so far this year could take place if negotiations, including over wages, fail next week
Tidbits – May 23 – Reader Comments: Texas OKs White Supremacist Terror; How Extremists Took Over Israel; Arrest Warrants for Israeli & Hamas Leaders; Calif Academic Workers Strike for Pro-Palestinian Protesters; Intl Recognition of State of Palestine
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Reader Comments: Texas Gov. OKs White Supremacist Terror; How Extremists Took Over Israel; Arrest Warrants for Israeli & Hamas Leaders; Calif Academic Workers Strike for Pro-Palestinian Protesters; Intl Recognition of State of Palestine; more....
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Barnes & Noble Workers Plan Union Drive at Largest U.S. Bookstore Chain
The Guardian
Despite pushback from CEO James Daunt, employees are organizing for better pay, dignity and working conditions.
California Is About To Execute an Innocent Black Man
Real News Network
Timothy James Young was convicted of murder in Tulare on the word of a police informant. But there are mountains of evidence demonstrating his innocence.
California Just Passed the First State Social Housing Legislation in the US
Jacobin
Earlier this month, California passed a bill requiring the state to produce a study and recommendations on expanding the state’s social housing sector. Organizers hope it will be the first step in providing de-commodified shelter on a large scale.
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How a California Child Care Workers’ Union Fought for Living Wages — And Won
KQED
The victory was a big moment for a labor movement largely led by immigrants and women of color — two groups whose domestic work has historically been undervalued and excluded from labor protection laws.
Half a Million California Workers Get a Raise—And a Seat at the Table
The American Prospect
Fast-food workers compel McDonald’s and Starbucks to abandon a ballot measure that would have squelched both.
Angry Parents Protest Religious Right in a Southern California School District
Politico
Novice school board members get a hard lesson in politics in a region that could determine control of the House.
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