Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first time has been delayed.
This action comes after a year marked by voting restrictions by state legislatures across the nation. “For New York City to do this really draws our attention to these questions: How do we think about democracy? Who’s included? Who’s excluded?"
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John Oliver discusses how misinformation spreads among immigrant diaspora communities and how little some platforms have done to stop it.
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When ICE raids threaten her family, Ashley, a Mexican-American teenager living in California, is forced to become the breadwinner, working days in the strawberry fields and nights at a food processing company.
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The timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. A Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, struggling to make a better life for his family, discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
It was evident by about midnight on Monday, September 13, that the Left bloc, spearheaded by the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet), was comfortably bagging an important victory in Norway’s parliamentary elections.
In the gold-rush era, initial ceremonial greetings soon gave way to bigotry and violence as Chinese immigrants were tarred as a “coolie race” and cast as a threat to free white labor. The two books under review tell the story of how and why.
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