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Stand with Haiti! A Call for Solidarity

HAITI ACTION COMMITTEE CounterPunch
Over 60 organizations call for support of the resistance by the Haitian people to the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise, and suggest concrete ways for progressive-minded people to take action in solidarity with Haiti.

The Enormous Impact of Eroded Collective Bargaining on Wages

Lawrence Mishel Economic Policy Institute
For the “typical” or median worker, declining unionization over the last four decades translates to a loss of $1.56 per hour worked, the equivalent of $3,250 for a full-time, full-year worker.

Organizing in the South

Joseph B. Atkins Portside
Amazon is organized in other parts of the world but like the foreign auto companies that dot the South tolerates no union in Dixie.

60 Years Later: The Enduring Legacy of the Bay of Pigs Fiasco

Stephen F. Knott History News Network
The most important consequence of the failure of Bay of Pigs was Kennedy’s decision to intensify covert efforts to topple the Castro regime. Operating under the codename “Operation Mongoose” the President placed his brother Robert Kennedy in charge

An Offering to Our Asian Sisters

Zillah Eisenstein From the Square/NYU Press Blogs
Join the Anti-Racist marches in the streets, and stand up for structural revolutionary anti-racist socialist feminism.

Farmworkers Need Families, Not Deportation and Exploitation

David Bacon and Anuradha Mittal The Reality Check
High-wages and secure jobs for farmworkers can only come by discarding the old deportation/guestworker model, and instead supporting families with legalization, family-based visas, and unions and labor rights.
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