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September 12, 2019

Tidbits - Sept. 19, 2019 - Reader Comments: Climate Strike demands; Immigrant detention; Labor movement - responses to Portside posts; Germany; Venezuela; China; Cuba; Lebanon; Russiagate; How to Help the Bahamas; Resources; Announcements; and more...

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Reader Comments: Climate Strike demands; Immigrant detention; Labor movement - responses to multiple Portside posts; Germany; Venezuela; China; Trade War; Cuba; Lebanon; Russiagate; How to Help the Bahamas; Resources; Announcements; and more...

September 2, 2019

PUBLIC CHARGE: Three Things You Should Know about Trump’s Racially-Motivated Immigration Wealth Test

Jackie Vimo National Immigration Law Center

MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS NEW RULE IS AN ATTEMPT to push a divisive narrative that people of color, people with relatively low incomes, people with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and immigrants are somehow less deserving of American opportunity.

August 29, 2019

Neil Young Calls on Musicians to Make Songs Using Words of Kids In Border Detention Centers

Neil Young: Musicians Make Songs with Detainees' Words ABC News

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Neil Young is calling on artists from across the music industry to highlight the plight of immigrant children at the U.S. border, using the children's own words published in court filings.

August 22, 2019

Tidbits - Aug. 22, 2019 - Reader Comments: Israel Bans Omar and Tlaib; 'Political Center'-Dangerous Myth; Trump's Union Crowd?; NAACP for Impeachment; Emma Lazarus; Immigrant Labor; Trump Copying Hitler; New Resource: The 1619 Project; more....

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Reader Comments: Israel Bans Omar and Tlaib; 'Political Center' a Dangerous Myth; Trump's Union Crowd?; NAACP for Impeachment; Emma Lazarus; Immigrant Labor; Trump Copying Hitler; New Resource: The 1619 Project; Announcements; and more....

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August 13, 2019

The New Servant Class

Derek Thompson The Atlantic

“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries. It includes full-time retail and service jobs at nail salons and spas, as well as that nebulous network of people contracted through through driving, delivery and other online services.

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August 12, 2019

ICE Raids Followed a Massive Sexual Harassment Settlement at Mississippi Plants

Zack Ford ThinkProgress

The raids could discourage future complaints of worker abuse.

August 8, 2019

Sicilian Fishermen Risk Prison to Rescue Migrants: `No Human Would Turn Away'

Lorenzo Tondo The Guardian

A father and son describe what it's like to hear desperate cries on the sea at night as Italy hardens its stance against refugees. If people are in danger at sea, sailors save them, without asking where they come from or the colour of their skin.

July 31, 2019

Push for a Full 2020 Count Ramps Up after Census Citizenship Question Fight

Hansi Lo Wang NPR

"It's important that people know that we depend on the census for our resources, for our representation, for our voices to be heard and to be counted."

July 25, 2019

Tidbits - July 25, 2019 - Reader Comments: GOP Destroying Democracy; Puerto Rico Rises and WINS; Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson and Colin Kaepernick; Iran; Europe's Right; Citizens United; What to Do When ICE Shows Up; Angela Davis and Black Lawyers; more

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Reader Comments: GOP Destroying Democracy; Puerto Rico Rises and WINS; Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson and Colin Kaepernick; Iran; Europe's Right; Citizens United; What to Do When ICE Shows Up; Angela Davis and Black Lawyers; and more ...

July 11, 2019

Every Jew in America Should Actively Protest Trump's Concentration Camps

Hallie Berkson-Gold Haaretz

I was arrested blocking access to a migrant detention facility. More and more U.S. Jews recognize the urgent moral necessity of doing more than just marching against these grave human rights abuses: That's what 'Never Again' really means.

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