Global Left Midweek – May Day 2024

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States Could Prosecute Women Who Violate Abortion Ban

"There is zero doubt in my mind that Trump will choose anti-abortion extremists and their horrifying agenda over American families every single chance he gets," said one reproductive rights campaigner.

Revolt in the Universities

University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and explusions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.

Southern Autoworkers’ Union Drives

On the heels of a UAW victory in Tennessee, Mercedes-Benz workers are about to vote on unionization in Alabama.

Donald Trump’s Empty Promises on Jobs

During the four years of Trump’s presidency, the United States lost 2.7 million jobs. As a result, he was the only president since 1939, when the U.S. government began compiling such employment statistics, to preside over a net loss of jobs.

Media Bits and Bytes – April 30, 2024

A student paper beats mainstream media to every punch

This Week in People’s History, Apr 30–May 6

Environmental justice activists celebrating success
Environmental Justice Wins (in 1997), School Integration Loses (1959), Wrist Slap for Torturers (2004), Pete Seeger’s Birthday (1919), No Place to Be Somebody Opens (1969), National Conference on Lynching (1919), ‘We Don’t Want to Radiate!’ (1979)

Single Dose of LSD Highly Effective at Treating Anxiety

Over 80 years after its discovery, LSD may finally have found a medical application. A new study shows that it is highly effective at treating generalised anxiety disorder for up to 12 weeks with just a single dose. And it is fast acting.

Mumia Abu-Jamal Praises Gaza Protest from Prison

Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they’re on the right side of history by deciding ‘not to be silent and to speak out’

Death on the Job: Workers Memorial Day

AFL-CIO report finds that workers of color are dying on the job at increasingly higher rates. Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 15 years. Latino workers continue to face the greatest risk of dying on the job.
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Culture

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What Are ‘Food Barons’— and Why Should You Care?

Charlie Hope D’Anieri The Bittman Project
The rise of the baron illustrates the failures of our approach to food policy better than a dry description of policies ever could. For example, the story of the Grain Barons tells the history of the Farm Bill and how it has corrupted the food system

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Climate Change

Eve Sutton
It’s the Idea of Spring and poet Eve Sutton has been reminding us that climate change has been going on for a long time. It is no joke!

Labor

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A Great Week for American Workers

Harold Meyerson American Prospect
The seven days between Friday, April 19, and Thursday, April 25, saw a succession of worker victories that was almost breathtaking in its scope.

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Journalist Casualties in the Israel-Gaza War

CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists
“.......journalists have been paying the highest price— their lives—to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna.

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A Valedictory Recommendation for What Unions Need To Do

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Taylor voiced both a cautious optimism about his union’s trajectory, and some frustration at the labor movement’s hesitation to exploit the unusually pro-union climate now abroad in the land.

Friday nite video

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Wait! I Said DE-Escalate!

As protests for Gaza ramp up on college campuses, the de-escalation effort doesn't seem to be...de-escalating.

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Can AI Help Us Talk to Whales?

AI may soon allow us to understand and talk to whales. But some scientists are asking: SHOULD we talk to whales?