Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 25, 2025
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VOICES: The Stone Is in Our Hands, Now We Take the Shot
Facing South
4,300 workers at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Garner, North Carolina, vote on whether to be represented by the union CAUSE.
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Union Election Set at North Carolina Amazon Warehouse
World-Outlook
On January 7, exactly three years since the founding of Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment (CAUSE), the NLRB ruled that workers at Amazon’s RDU1 fulfillment center in Garner, North Carolina, can have an election.
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In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize and Fight
Labor Notes
Restaurant workers threw themselves into cooking meals for thousands of displaced people with the local Mutual Aid Disaster Relief group. AFBU members helped workers apply for relief funds and more.
Friday Nite Videos | November 29, 2024
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Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales. Faces of Deportation | ICE Raid in Mississippi. What Happens When R's Lose: The NC Test Case. Union | (Amazon) Documentary. How AI Cracked Protein Folding and Won a Nobel.
What Happens When R's Lose: The NC Test Case
R's suffered a near wipeout in North Carolina, but the outgoing legislature is attempting a truly Trumpian power grab to thwart the expressed will of the voters and to eviscerate democracy
Rural People and the Working Class. Here’s How We Unite.
Barn Raiser
The director of the Appalachia People’s Union on why the South is ready to stand up to Trump. White people delivered this victory to Trump. Out of 76 million votes cast for Trump (2 million more than in 2020), 84% of those were white voters.
When a Multi-Racial Democracy Was Violently Overthrown in America
The Progressive
A review of the new film 'American Coup: Wilmington 1898,' which premieres November 12 on PBS.
Before Helene, a Perfect Storm of Climate Denialism
The Lever
North Carolina was once a climate leader, but more than a decade of Republican and corporate obstruction left the state ill-prepared for the historic disaster.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – October 8, 2024
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