Twenty-One Days Later: Ventura County's Participation in the Chicano Moratorium of 1970
Frank P. Barajas
September 13, 2020
History News Network
In 1970 Chicanos protested how US casualties in Vietnam disproportionately consisted of young men from their communities in the Southwest. Now, they protest the killings of Latina and Latino soldiers.
Fighting Evictions: The 1930s and Now
Michael R. McBrearty
September 2, 2020
Monthly Review Online
The fight for housing security has already become a part of the general struggle against inequality made possible by the epochal rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Amid Terror Warnings, Railroad Industry Group Passed Intel on Environmental Journalist to Cops
Murtaza Hussain, Alleen Brown
September 13, 2020
The Intercept
By distributing private intelligence reports to federal “fusion centers,” industries can influence how law enforcement views threats.
The Violent Defense of White Male Supremacy
Ibram X. Kendi
September 9, 2020
The Atlantic
Trump and his supporters are defending an America where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.
Climate Change Is Worsening California's Hellish Wildfires
Dana Nuccitelli
August 24, 2020
Yale Climate Connections
It's exacerbating hot, dry conditions allowing wildfires to spread farther and faster. Demographic and forest management factors alone are insufficient to explain the magnitude of the observed increase in wildfire extent over the past half-century.
In California, a “Labor Slate” Aims to Redefine the Relationship Between Unions and Politics
Hamilton Nolan
September 2, 2020
In These Times
In California, one group of union activists is forming a “Labor Slate” of candidates, in what they hope will become a model for future election cycles.
The Labor Abuses of Ellen DeGeneres
Eileen Jones
September 8, 2020
Jacobin
Ellen DeGeneres’s reputation as the kindest celebrity in America has finally been shattered. But it’s not just her “mean streak” that’s the problem — it’s that she’s an exploitative boss, who cheated her employees at the height of the pandemic.
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