Media Bits and Bytes – June 11, 2024
Portside
A crisis moment for media
A crisis moment for media
A crisis moment for media
The Rise and Fall of Moms for Liberty
The Progressive
Reeling from school board losses, the “parental rights” organization is collapsing on itself.
Media Bits and Bytes – December 12, 2023
Portside
More censorship, more surveillance, more media resistance
‘War Against the Children’
The New York Times
The Native American boarding school system — a decades-long effort to assimilate Indigenous people before they ever reached adulthood — robbed children of their culture, family bonds and sometimes their lives.
More Police in Schools Than Counselors
LA Progressive
The nation’s schools are over-criminalized and under-resourced. U.S. schools have more police on hand than support staff.
labor
In Georgia, 1,400 Electric Bus Manufacturing Workers Have Just Won a Union
Jacobin
Electric vehicle manufacturing in the US is overwhelming nonunion, but 1,400 workers for an electric bus manufacturer in Georgia have just unionized. It’s one of the labor movement’s biggest victories in the South this century.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – May 9, 2023
Portside
A not-so-civil war continues
Tidbits – Mar. 30, 2023 – Reader Comments: Attack on Public Education; Transgender Phobia; Guns, Schools, Children; Wisconsin; Florida; War in Ukraine; Nuclear Weapons; Travel to Cuba; April 4 – Dr. King’s Legacy; Building Socialist Alliances;
Portside
Reader Comments: Attack on Public Education; Transgender Phobia; Guns, Schools, Children; Wisconsin; Florida; War in Ukraine; Nuclear Weapons; Fossil Fuels; Travel to Cuba; April 4 - Dr. King's Legacy; Building Socialist Alliances for Policy;
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – March 28, 2023
Portside
Apocalypse is the new normal
‘Frankenstein’ Apartments and Weak Libraries: Is This New York’s Future?
The New York Times
After surviving the worst of the pandemic, the city now faces budget cuts that seem to promise even more disruption. The average rent of a Manhattan apartment is now reaching $5,249 a month, an increase of nearly 20 percent over the previous year.
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