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A Vietnam Story: From Othering to Solidarity

JJ Johnson Washington Spectator
Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, JJ Johnson reflects on the journey that led him, along with two fellow Fort Hood soldiers, to refuse orders to Vietnam. He compares then to our situation today, "the darkest period in my lifetime."

Columbia Student Has Clear Message for Trump After Judge Frees Him

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling The New Republic
A federal judge freed Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student leader at Columbia University, who was part of the pro-Palestine protests. “The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,”

The Urgency of Interracial Solidarity in a Divided Nation

Brenda Victoria Castillo and Marc H. Morial Common Dreams
By pitting Black and Brown communities against each other, shadow actors promote the false notion that democracy and equality are in competition with each other, rather than shared objectives.

How Black Workers Challenged the Mafia

Keith Kelleher The Forge
A story of intrigue and power involving union organizers, Black laundry workers, the Mafia, and the FBI in 1980s Detroit.
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