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 ...
How Activists Won Reparations for the Survivors of Chicago Police ...
WEBJun 26, 2015 · The 20-year reign of police torture that was orchestrated by Commander Jon Burge — and implicated former Mayor Richard M. Daley and a myriad of high ranking police and prosecutorial officials ...
The ADL Is Making It Less Safe to Be a Progressive Jew
WEBEmail Address. This is but the latest lurch in the ADL’s steady shedding of credibility in its mission “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to ...
Scenes From a Sacrifice Zone: South Baltimore Residents Fight …
WEBAug 14, 2024 · The explosion happened on Dec. 30, 2021, in the working-class South Baltimore neighborhood of Curtis Bay.At the coal plant building owned and operated by rail giant CSX Transportation, no more ...
"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 ...
How Chicago Took a Major Step Toward Tackling the City's …
WEBNov 7, 2023 · For those properties selling at over $ 1. 5 million, the tax would increase to 2 % on the first $ 500, 000 over one million dollars, and to 3 % on the sale amount above $ 1. 5 million. Meanwhile ...
Why So Many Celebrities Are Scientologists: Going ... - In These …
WEBMar 29, 2015 · Sea Org, Scientology’s equivalent of a monastic order, provides an army of virtual slave labor for its celebrity converts, getting 40 cents an hour to satisfy Cruise’s lightest whim.
“From the River to the Sea”: Palestinians Resist Erasure
WEBJan 30, 2024 · The political concept of a “ free Palestine” gained popularity in the 1950 s and 1960 s among Palestinian refugees who fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 war. Unlike many ...
Striking Autoworkers Remember Broken Promises - In These Times
WEBOct 12, 2023 · On June 1, GM followed suit. The injection of $ 80 billion into the auto industry under Bush and Obama saved the companies from going under, preserving jobs for an estimated 2. 6 million workers ...