Recently “freed” workers on a sugar plantation in the West Indies in 1849. Their progress is watched by a white supervisor with a whip.
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The current blizzard of stories about a “worker shortage” across the U.S. …
The Deconstructed May Day Special
May Day is the biggest day on the calendar for the international labor movement, but it passes almost unmentioned each year in the United States. That’s in spite of the fact that the holiday commemorates the workers killed in the …
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ICE Subverting Biden’s Priorities for Detention and Deportation
On the first day of Joe Biden’s presidency, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security issued a memo to change immigration enforcement priorities and limit the number of people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would target and detain. …
Massacre no Jacarezinho: pai relata horror depois da polícia matar uma pessoa no quarto da sua filha
Desde junho de 2020, estão proibidas operações policiais em favelas do Rio exceto em casos excepcionais. Isso não impediu a Polícia Civil de aterrorizar os moradores da favela do Jacarezinho em um massacre que terminou com 25 mortos. Essa é …
A Climate Dystopia in Northern California
It’s a ritual that has been repeated many times over the coldest months of Northern California’s winter. The Chico police arrive between 9 a.m. and noon on a Thursday, perhaps in the hopes of catching people when they are home. …
Presidente de El Salvador derruba ‘STF’ com apoio do Congresso
Chegar ao poder prometendo acabar com a criminalidade e combater a corrupção – e terminar governando de forma autoritária, sem um congresso ou uma Suprema Corte capaz de contrariar suas decisões. Parece até o sonho de um certo presidente, mas …
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Health officials report 3,321 cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, 36 deaths
Health officials Friday announce 3,321 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus in Illinois, including 36 additional deaths.
Illinois Department of Public Health is now reporting a total of 1,351,497 cases, including 22,171 deaths.
Pfizer officially seeking FDA approval for …
Teachers’ unions run interference at the CDC
When the Centers for Disease Control released guidance for school reopenings in mid-February, the president of the powerful American Federation of Teachers praised the document as “a rigorous road map based on science.
Turns out it was also based on …