The Labor Movement Has a Card to Play—And We Need to Play It
card check noun 1. The ability for workers to form an official, legally recognized union by simply telling everyone they’re a union (and signing cards that say as much) Is this a new idea? Nope! Card check, also called “majority sign-up” (because it requires a simple majority of the workers involved to agree to move forward), has been a thing since […]
‘Justice Rooted in Compassion’: Asian, Black Progressives Stress Unity and Understanding Amid Attacks on Asian Americans
As violent attacks on Asian Americans, many of them elders, increase across the nation amid the coronavirus and economic crises and the still-frothing wake of racist rhetoric from former President Donald Trump, Asian and Black progressive organizers are standing in solidarity to denounce violence and division at events including a Saturday rally in New York […]
Andrew Cuomo Isn’t the Only One Who Needs to Answer for COVID-19
Agroup of Republican senators are pressing President Joe Biden’s Justice Department to investigate Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s mismanagement of nursing home policy during the pandemic — and conservative media outlets are excitedly touting those lawmakers’ plans to spotlight the issue at this week’s confirmation hearing for Biden’s attorney general nominee. Cuomo deserves the criticism. However, there […]
FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack
WITHIN HOURS OF the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members of Congress, raising potentially thorny legal questions. Using special emergency powers and other measures, the FBI has collected reams of […]
Urging Biden to Stop Line 3, Indigenous-Led Resistance Camps Ramp Up Efforts to Slow Construction
The Biden administration may have finally put the Keystone XL pipeline to rest, but Tara Houska has hardly had time to celebrate. Just a week after President Biden revoked Keystone’s border-crossing permit, Houska was on a video call in late January with a dozen other Indigenous activists and over a thousand spectators. She was calling on […]
‘We Shall Not Surrender’: Myanmar Rises Up Against the Junta
YANGON—After five years of democratically elected governance, the people of Myanmar are not ready return to military dictatorship. Despite a curfew and martial law, hundreds of thousands of protesters are filling streets across the Southeast Asian country. From the largest city, Yangon, to the delta, mountains, and coasts, people from all backgrounds are shouting “Let […]
At Kroger and Amazon, Capital Is Going on the Offensive
Last week, Kroger, the supermarket giant, announced that it would close two of its grocery stores in Long Beach, California, after the city council passed an ordinance mandating that grocery stores pay their workers an extra $4 an hour for the next 120 days or until the city terminates the measure. Kroger ended its $2-an-hour […]
The Capitol Siege Was White Supremacy in Action. Trial Evidence Confirms That.
New footage aired at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump has flooded the U.S. once again with images of the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last month, reigniting our horror and attempt as a nation to make sense of the event. What we witnessed was white supremacy on full display. There were Confederate flags, […]
“I Don’t Trust the People Above Me”: Riot Squad Cops Open Up About Disastrous Response to Capitol Insurrection
The riot squad defending the embattled entrance to the west side of the U.S. Capitol was surrounded by violence. Rioters had clambered up the scaffolding by the stage erected for the inauguration of President Joseph Biden. They hurled everything they could get their hands on at the cops beneath: rebar, plywood, power tools, even cans […]
The Other Americans: Biden Ends Controversial Asylum Agreements
The Biden Administration has suspended the controversial Asylum Cooperation Agreements signed between the Trump Administration and the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The move is part of the administration’s rejection of Trump’s hardline anti-immigration policies. “The United States has suspended and initiated the process to terminate the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Governments of El […]