Tidbits-Oct. 29: Reader Comments: Dolores Huerta – Rest in Power; Worldwide Kiss of Death; Vivek Ramaswamy Vile Attack Ad; France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt; Israeli Elections; “Who Built America?” Launch Event: Rethinking U.S. History Textbook

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Reader Comments: Dolores Huerta - Rest in Power; Worldwide Kiss of Death; Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad; France’s Youth Ignite a Massive Revolt; Israeli elections; Ox-y-moron; “Who Built America?” Launch Event: Rethinking the U.S. History Textbook

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Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta Dies at 96

Dolores Huerta Foundation
Dolores Huerta, a founder of the UFW, helped expand the meaning of feminism. She showed that women’s equality could not be separated from the fight for fair wages, immigrant rights, racial justice, reproductive freedom and political power.

Tidbits-Apr 23-Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in UFW Gave Chavez Immunity – Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; “State Ideology” of Zionism; After No Kings-What’s Next

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Reader Comments: Taxing the Rich; Trump Cabinet Departures; Is the Pope Catholic?; Lack of Democracy in the UFW Gave Chavez Immunity - Letter in Response; Young Communists Grow Older; "State Ideology" of Zionism; After No Kings: What’s Next; Cartoons

Tidbits-Mar 26-Reader Comments: No Kings, No War-Largest Demonstrations in U.S. History; Treason in Futures Markets; ICE in Airports: What Could Go Wrong-Everything; Filipino & Women Labor Leaders in Farmworkers Movement; Iran War Global Implications

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Reader Comments: No Kings, No War - Largest Demonstrations in U.S. History; Treason in the Futures Markets; ICE in Airports - What Could Go Wrong - Everything; Filipino & Women Labor Leaders in Farmworkers Movement; Iran War Global Implications;

Tidbits-Mar 19-Reader Comments: Iran War Quagmire; Make No Kings 3 Largest Antiwar Protest in US History; Sexual Violence Allegations by Cesar Chavez; One Battle After Another: Different Perspectives; Putin Repression of Left Opponents of Ukraine War

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Reader Comments: Iran War Quagmire; Let’s Make No Kings 3 Largest Antiwar Protest in U.S. History; Allegations of Sexual Violence by Cesar Chavez; One Battle After Another - Differing Perspectives; Putin’s repression of left opponents of Ukraine war

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Fred Ross Changed Community Organizing

Peter Dreier Convergence
Community organizer Fred Ross Sr was a key figure in progressive activism during the 20th century. He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer methodical tactics that transformed American orga
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