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May 6, 2021

Tidbits - May 6, 2021 - Reader Comments: Biden Recovery Plan; Struggle for Racial Justice; Heroes-Not Saints; Myanmar; Yiddish Immigrants; Book Sale; Puerto Rican Socialist Party; Climate Change; Pensions; Labor and Media; Zoom events; more....

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Reader Comments: Biden Recovery Plan; US History, Racism and Struggle for Racial Justice; Heroes But Not Saints; Myanmar; Yiddish, Immigrants, U.S. left; Book Sale; Puerto Rican Socialist Party; Climate Change; Pensions; Labor and Media; Zoom events

May 3, 2021

The US’s Biggest County Jails Are Sites of Extreme Environmental Injustice

Adam Mahoney Grist

“Black, brown and poor white folks in prisons and jails are coming from communities where they are at greater risk for these social and environmental threats. Then they are being siphoned off, extracted, taken hostage and locked up in cages..."

May 10, 2021

Fossil Fuel Phase Out Must Begin Where the Industry Has Hurt People the Most

Leanna First-Arai Truthout

“We must move funds to frontline communities for clean energy projects and stop fossil fuel developers from perpetuating conventional investments in dirty energy and injustice.”

May 10, 2021

Biden’s Jobs Plan Could Build Racial Equity With One Simple Fix

Larry Buhl Capital & Main

How the infrastructure bill could easily be engineered to also build justice.

May 3, 2021

The White Republic and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Bob Wing Organizing Upgrade

Racial justice forces need to win governing power within the current system and then continue to build the strength to dismantle the racist state and replace it with an antiracist one: fight against the white republic and for antiracist democracy.

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February 23, 2021

Why District Attorneys Should Take Up Wage Theft Criminalization

Michael Migiel-Schwartz OnLabor

Prosecutors can and should take immediate steps to redirect efforts toward wage theft. This would give momentum to movements calling to redirect resources that now go to funding the police.

March 1, 2021

Whose Rights Matter in Pandemic America? Not Those of Poor Americans, That's For Sure

Liz Theoharis TomDispatch

Life should come before profit, human rights before property rights.

January 24, 2021

Thousands of Illinois Drivers Would Get Their Licenses Back Under a Criminal Justice Reform Bill

Melissa Sanchez ProPublica

If Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs the measure that lawmakers passed this week, motorists will no longer lose their licenses for unpaid red-light and speed camera tickets.

January 18, 2021

Chaos Or Community? Reflections On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Message Of Hope

Jessica Wolf UCLA

Violence has not produced justice anywhere. We must build a nonviolent movement in the 21st century that advances a multi-racial democracy that has never before existed in the United States.

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January 14, 2021

Workers First Agenda Will Build Sustainable Economy and Stronger Democracy

Richard Trumka AFL-CIO

As we rebuild, we must remember that recovery is impossible without equity. Therefore racial justice is a key component of our agenda. And we need to rebuild the safety net for everyone who lives and works here. That means economic security for all.

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