The First Big Strike of 2023 May Happen Behind Prison Walls
All in all, 2022 was a banner yr for organized labor. 1000’s of staff in all kinds of industries unionized; they pushed again in opposition to union-busting campaigns from oligarchs and company hit males; they went on strike and protested unfair remedy, from California to Alabama and all over the place in between. Public assist […]
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Florida GOP Leader Says She’s Open to Expanding “Don’t Say Gay” Law
Conservative lawmakers need no discussions in anyway on LGBTQ points in grades 4 by means of 6 in Florida colleges. A key Republican lawmaker in Florida’s legislature is signaling that she can be open to implementing elevated restrictions on what educators can focus on on the subject of LGBTQ points in public faculty school rooms […]
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Karine Jean-Pierre, Incompetent but Failing Upward
One of many bestselling books of the Seventies was “The Peter Precept,” a enterprise administration e book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. The e book’s premise, in a nutshell, was that folks get promotions primarily based on their efficiency of their earlier jobs till they’re in the end elevated to a place during […]
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States Take Tax Revenue Vital for Funding Tribal Services
Members of the Osage Nation from Oklahoma on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C., throughout a go to to foyer senators over situations amongst Native People in Oklahoma, and in addition concerning their oil leases, circa 1925.FPG / Hulton Archive / Getty Pictures This text was initially printed by the Center for Public […]
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Following Electric Vehicle Announcement, Advocates Say DeJoy Still Needs to Go
Postmaster Common Louis DeJoy’s broadly praised announcement final week that the Postal Service will purchase tens of hundreds of electrical autos within the coming years to assist change its growing older supply fleet shouldn’t be sufficient to save lots of the scandal-plagued USPS chief’s job, advocates mentioned, pointing to his refusal to assist a extra […]
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Greg Abbott Blasted for Bussing Migrants to Kamala Harris’s Home in Cruel Stunt
That is the second time since September that migrant folks have been despatched to the vp’s house. Human rights defenders condemned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and “extremist Republicans’ merciless values” after a number of busloads of migrants have been dropped off outdoors U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ Washington, D.C. house in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas […]
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Markets and Technology Won’t Solve Climate Crisis. We Must End Capitalism.
Local weather change — brought on primarily by capitalism’s incessant burning of fossil fuels — is going on sooner than even probably the most pessimistic scientists predicted, inflicting freak climate occasions and mass displacement worldwide. From floods submerging one third of Pakistan to temperatures of 100 levels Fahrenheit (100°F) within the Siberian Arctic, proof abounds […]
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Amid Inflation and Short-Staffing, Labor Organizers Demanded More in 2022
Was it the pandemic? Was it new disasters from local weather change? Was it the truth that employers are nonetheless begging for extra employees? No matter it was, employees had been able to throw down this yr. Within the face of inflation and short-staffing we demanded more cash in our paychecks, and extra time for […]
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Louisiana Communities Organize to Defend Libraries From Far Right Censorship
Lynette Mejia, a self-described “homeschool father or mother,” has raised three kids within the Lafayette Public Library System in Louisiana. Till early 2021, “I used to be the common individual sitting across the desk complaining about politics,” Mejia stated. Then Mejia found one thing that troubled her: The Lafayette Board of Management, which governs the […]
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Year-in-Review: The great British ‘permacrisis’
There was an ominous momentum to British politics in 2022. This really epic interval in British politics noticed two Conservative management contests, two monarchs, three prime ministers, 4 chancellors, six “fiscal occasions” and all of it culminated in appreciable market turmoil. Issue within the ongoing complexities over Brexit, the debilitating legacy of Covid lockdowns, a […]
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