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December 29, 2022

Tidbits – Dec. 29, 2022 – Reader Comments: Trump Ethics; Labor’s Medicare Privatization; Franco Harris and Vietnam Peace Movement; 9 to 5, Organizing Woman Workers; GOP’s Santos Clause; AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conf

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Reader Comments: Trump Ethics; Labor and Medicare Privatization; Franco Harris and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement; 9 to 5 and Organizing Woman Workers; GOP's "Santos Clause"; 2023 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference

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December 27, 2022

The 9 to 5 Movement: How Women Got Angry, Got Organized and Made Labor History

Ellen Cassedy Teen Vogue

As the economy opened up to women a half century ago, one in three working women was an office employee. As the clerical workforce grew by leaps and bounds, so did a sense of injustice among the women, leading to the founding of the 9 to 5 Movement.

December 22, 2022

Tidbits – Dec. 22, 2022 – Reader Comments: Georgia Victory, Electoral Politics, Electoral Strategy; Rail Workers; Doctors and Unions; After Dobbs; Ending ‘American War’: Promises, Realities, Impact of U.S. Peace Movement; Cartoons, More …

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Reader Comments: Congress to the People: Jan. 06 The Grave Crimes of Donald Trump, IRS Returns Show Paid Zero Taxes; Remembering Charlene Mitchell; Readers Disagree: Ukraine War; Concern about AI; White Lotus; Countries with Most Female Inventors

December 21, 2022

The Regime Must Fall: Bahareh Hedayati’s Full Letter From Evin Prison

Bahareh Hedayati IranWire

Bahareh Hedayati, an Iranian women’s rights and human rights activist who has been arrested and imprisoned several times, was last arrested on October 11 amid the protests that started after the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police

December 20, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 20, 2022

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Beating back the right, fight by fight

December 4, 2022

Even After Dobbs, Abortions Still Haven’t Plummeted

Matt Bruenig Jacobin

The Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was a blow to reproductive rights. But fortunately, new data suggest that most of those seeking abortions still seem to be getting them.

December 4, 2022

Woman, Life, Freedom: The Origins of the Uprising in Iran

Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson Dissent Magazine

The massive protests in Iran, fueled by the audacity of young women and children, are rooted in over a century of struggle.

November 27, 2022

Why Saudi Arabia Is So Quiet About Iran’s Protests

Kim Ghattas The Atlantic

The kingdom’s rulers may have managed their own social pressures better, but they’re wary of the tumult that’s shaking their neighbor.

November 17, 2022

How the Islamic Revolution Gave Rise to a Massive Women’s Movement in Iran

Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi CounterPunch

Iran's Women-Life-Freedom is a movement that has changed the political culture of defiance and expressions of dissent. Its radical creativity and imaginative forms of collective action, has opened the possibility of thinking of politics anew.

November 10, 2022

8 Lessons From the Midterm Elections

Julia Rock, Rebecca Burns, Andrew Perez, Matthew Cunningham-Cook, David Sirota Jacobin

Progressive and leftist voters are always told we’re too extreme. The midterm results should quash that narrative. Results suggest that when the Democratic Party listened to its progressive flank voters rewarded its politicians.

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