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Despite the Losses, the Singing Continues

Luis Rodriguez Capital & Main
From rust belt assembly lines to Amazon warehouses, former Los Angeles poet laureate Luis Rodriguez reminds us that labor has always been at the center of the American story.

Friday Nite Videos | June 30, 2023

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The Democrats Have Moves To Flip the House. Grandmaster Flash 50 Years of Hip Hop - Full Performance. When Flight Attendants Fought the Airline Industry and Won. Every Body | Movie. How America’s Richest Donate Their Money

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In Obama’s Working, There Is No Way Out

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Barack Obama abandoned his commitments to unions, and many top staffers went to work for the gig economy. In his Netflix series Working, the former president bears witness to workers’ suffering as if it were immutable.

Cancelling Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Mary Anne Trasciatti Labor and Working Class History Association
Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire had a marker at Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's childhood home removed just two weeks after it was unveiled, arguing that Flynn did not deserve such recognition because she was “un-American.”

Friday Nite Videos | May 12, 2023

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Tuberville on White Nationalists in the Military: ‘I Call Them Americans.’ The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna. MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried. Native Americans Demand Accountability. Where Are All the Denisovans?

MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried

Film explores the tragic, but largely forgotten, 1937 incident in Chicago when police shot 40 steel workers and supporters (mainly in the back) and killed ten of them. Commentary by Studs Terkel, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.

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Staughton Lynd’s Radicalism From Below

Marcus Rediker The Nation
The historian and activist dedicated his life to showing how, and helping, working people not only imagine but build a better world. Working with his partner Alice (Niles) Lynd, he relentlessly sought out new sources of combat and inspiration.
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