In These Times
WEBWorking In These Times. United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative ...
As All Eyes Are on Chicago This Week, Don't Forget What This City …
WEBAug 18, 2024 · Published in. August/September 2024. Chicago: the biggest city in the Midwest, hub for industrial unionism and also nursery for neoliberalism (through the Chicago school of economics). From this ...
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer - In These Times
WEBDec 27, 2023 · not even to himself—. sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above. and thinks for a moment an angel is there. bringing back love. If I must die. let it bring hope. let it be a tale. فال ...
Jim Crow in the North - In These Times
WEBJan 8, 2009 · After Reconstruction ended in 1876, the South imposed Jim Crow, which it enforced with lynchings and state-sanctioned brutality. As a result, millions of blacks fled to the North. After World War ...
To Win Over Working-Class Voters, Harris and Other Democrats …
WEBAug 28, 2024 · Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally with Minn. Gov. Tim Walz and UAW President Shawn Fain at United Auto Workers Local 900 on August 8, 2024 in Wayne, Michigan.
Land Claims: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
WEBOn July 23, 1980, in United States v.Sioux Nation of Indians, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Black Hills (Paha Sapa) had been taken illegally and offered $106 million dollars be paid in ...
Heather Digby Parton - In These Times
WEBHeather Digby Parton is founder of the progressive blog Hullabaloo and a principal in the progressive netroots political PAC Blue America. In 2007, she accepted the Paul Wellstone Award on behalf ...
IT'S OFFICIAL: Reformer Shawn Fain Wins the UAW ... - In These …
WEBMar 17, 2023 · Challenger Shawn Fain has officially won the historic runoff election for the presidency of the United Auto Workers (UAW), defeating incumbent Ray Curry in a nail-biting finish.
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism - In These Times
WEBAug 30, 2024 · Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs delivers his famous antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918. This photograph was used as Exhibit No. 17 by the prosecution in Debs’ sedition trial.
How U.S. Muslims Have Transformed in the 20 Years Since …
WEBHer fears were validated in early November 2023 after Abdulwahab Omira, an Arab Muslim student at Stanford University, was reportedly struck and injured in a hit-and-run.The driver yelled out ...