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July 23, 2020

Tidbits - July 23, 2020 - Reader Comments: Portland - Trump's Militia and the Moms; Teachers Prepare to Resist School Openings; Strike for Black Lives; Unions and Racial Justice; Cuban Medical Internationalism; Resources; Announcements; and more....

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Reader Comments: Portland - Trump's Militia and the Moms; Teachers Prepare to Resist School Openings; Strike for Black Lives; Unions and Racial Justice; Cuban Medical Internationalism fact sheet; Resources; Announcements; and more....

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July 13, 2020

Why Is It Never “Class Struggle” When Black Workers Fight Back?

Chance Zombor Organizing Work

Chance Zombor, a grievance representative at Briggs & Stratton in Wisconsin, challenges the resistance to recognizing Black worker activity as class struggle.

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July 7, 2020

Police Unions Wield Massive Power in American Politics — For Now

Sam Blum Rolling Stone

The barriers to reform police unions erected over the years will pose an enormous obstacle to establishing a new, more accountable kind of policing in the United States.

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July 5, 2020

Cops Off Campus and Out of Our Unions!

David Klassen Spectre

A REPORT FROM PSC CUNY’S RANK-AND-FILE ON COPS ON CAMPUS AND IN UNIONS

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July 2, 2020

Union-Building for the Long Haul – The Tale of Boston Fine Art Museum Security Guards

Kurt Stand The Stansbury Forum

I often used to look at the union work as something like walking a tightrope backwards while juggling without a net … The wire must be made of grassroots. The moment the union highwire artist feels those grassroots under foot, they know they are safe

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June 27, 2020

“The Union Has to Be About Social Justice”

An interview with Cecily Myart-Cruz Convergence

Incoming LA teachers' union president Cecily Myart-Cruz was a leader of the city’s landmark 2019 strike. Now she explains why it’s important to get police out of schools and what the labor movement can do about it.

June 21, 2020

What Chicago’s Ultimate Bad Cop Taught Me About Police Reform

Natasha Korecki Politico

Jon Burge tortured black men for years and his fellow officers covered for him. The cover-ups continued long after he was gone.

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June 19, 2020

It's Time to Make Black Lives Matter in Our Unions

Bianca Cunningham Labor Notes

Workers at a rally with Black Lives Matter Signs

Black people have the highest rates of unionization in the United States. But white men hold the most powerful leadership positions, regardless of the make-up of the members themselves.

June 16, 2020

Media Bits and Bytes - June 16, 2020

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Emergency! The media are under attack - physical, professional and legal

June 14, 2020

White U.S. Police Union Bosses Protect Officers Accused of Racism

Eli Hager and Weihua Li of the Marshall Project The Guardian

Analysis finds of the 15 large US cities in which a majority of officers are non-white, only one – Memphis – has a union leader who is black

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