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Inside Your Union, You Have Due Process Rights

July 18, 2025 Cathy Highet, Labor Notes. , , ,
Suppose you run for local union office on a reform slate, and nearly win… but then the incumbent leaders trump up charges against you. You’re sure your only crime is challenging them, but they brand your organizing “dual unionism” or “conduct unbecoming a member.” They hold a trial, find you guilty, and suspend your membership. Do you have any recourse? Most unions have an internal discipline process—a way to expel, suspend, or fine members for breaking the union’s rules. Most members have a legal right to due process, and protections against improper discipline, under a 1959 federal law called the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.

Settler Colonialism In Light Of Frantz Fanon

July 17, 2025 Said Bouamama, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
The total violence of colonization in Algeria, Palestine, or Kanaky is therefore physical and symbolic, economic and cultural, political and social, religious and civil. It is literally a matter of substituting one society for another, replacing one people with another, destroying a history to justify an illegitimate present. The victims of these colonizations therefore have only one choice: to resist or disappear. To date, there is no example in human history of a people choosing to disappear. Resistance is inevitable and takes many different and evolving forms.

Trump Is Trying To Dismantle Public Health

July 17, 2025 Rob Wallace, Joe Sexauer and Rita Valenti, Truthout. , , , ,
From the streets to town halls and the courts, it’s a race now. The Trump administration is fighting to remain a step ahead of the growing popular backlash to its draconian cuts to social programs that millions of Americans depend on — at least until the administration operationalizes enough of the police state it’s practicing on immigrants to put down any such objection. Budget proposals and “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) cuts switching out the public commons for a police state make the regime’s objectives clear.

Red Channels: America’s Lasting Legacy Of Repression

July 17, 2025 Ed Rampell, Portside. , , ,
On June 22, 1950, a conservative anti-communist publication called Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television became key to the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklisting campaign. Seventy-five years later, as President Donald Trump and his followers instigate similar attacks on artists, public cultural figures, and institutions, Red Channels represents more than just a past chapter in American history. Rather than a chronicle of antiquity, Red Channels and other texts of the 1940s and 1950s Red Scare provide real insight into Trump’s current inquisitions.

Violence De-Escalation Trainings Are Key To Making Movements Stronger

July 17, 2025 Stephen Gasteyer, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
Ever-growing political violence in the U.S. (not to mention abroad) has been a mainstay of current events. These tragic episodes have included political assassinations of Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota; the assassination of Israeli Embassy personnel in mid-May; the attack on an interfaith gathering calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado in late May; the firebombing of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence in April; and the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles to quell demonstrations against militarized Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, raids on immigrant workers in Los Angeles.

The Student Movement For Palestine Continues, Despite Crackdowns

July 15, 2025 Nashwa Bawab, In These Times. , , , ,
The Palestine movement is in an especially difficult phase. The genocide in Gaza has been ongoing for more than 20 months; the death toll has become virtually untrackable, but estimates suggest at least 55,000 people have been killed. In the United States, the movement is facing repression not seen since the height of the war on terror. Empowered by the student movement just a year ago, the moment is now colored by a sense of defeatism and a loss of hope. To discuss where to find hope, where the movement for liberation has made strides and where we go from here, In These Times brought together figures from the student movement globally.

Acquainting Ourselves With Collapse

July 14, 2025 Sara El-Sayeh, Resilience. , , ,
I graduated from Cairo University in 2008 — the year the global economy collapsed. Ironically, at the time, Egypt was boasting exceptionally high GDP growth rates led by a very progressive and technocratic government. It wasn’t long before that too collapsed and people took to the streets to protest income inequality and police brutality, among other things. There was a lot of momentum and, at one point, the police left the streets and civilians took shifts in the guerrilla checkpoints they created.

Struggle For The Freedom Charter Goes On

July 13, 2025 Ronnie Kasrils, Mail and Guardian. , , ,
The Freedom Charter was adopted in Kliptown 70 years ago, on 26  June 1955. Thousands of delegates travelled across South Africa — by train, by bus, on foot — to take part in the Congress of the People. They met under an open sky, gathered on a dusty field where a wooden stage had been erected. Armed police watched from the perimeter but the atmosphere was determined and jubilant.  One by one, the clauses of the Charter — on land, work, education, housing, democracy, peace — were read aloud, and each was met with unanimous approval. The charter distilled months of discussion and collective vision.

How To Create A Justice System Rooted In Care

July 13, 2025 George Payne, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
What if justice begins not with punishment, but with care? What if our failure to care for the communities harmed by police — and for the officers themselves — is the quiet crisis sustaining a system that brutalizes everyone it touches? We need to talk about the emotional cost of policing. But not in isolation. We need to talk about George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tyre Nichols. We need to talk about the rage that floods the streets when a routine stop turns deadly, when a mental health crisis becomes a fatal encounter. These are not isolated incidents, they are systemic patterns. And yet, they are also deeply personal, carried out by individuals who are sometimes breaking under the weight of the very system they represent.

Systems Are Breaking And That’s Our Opportunity

July 12, 2025 Jem Bendell, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , , ,
A few months ago, I reconnected with a friend whom I had worked with on an initiative on ‘the sharing economy’. At the time, we were both ‘Young Global Leaders’ (YGLs) with the World Economic Forum. It was 2013, and we had volunteered our time to bring attention to how new technologies could be used to help everyone have a good life with less ecological impact. Personally, we were imagining a future of peer-to-peer resource sharing, community-based production, and cooperative ownership. Meeting up after years, we laughed that our work had oddly contributed to the World Economic Forum publishing the line that became infamous as a globalist’s dystopian injunction: “You will own nothing and be happy.”

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Attack On Public Health

July 11, 2025 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. , , ,
On July 4, President Trump signed his 1,000-page “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) into law. The bill permanently enacts several income tax cuts that were originally passed in 2017 while providing additional benefits to the wealthiest. It also includes significant funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while rolling back environmental protections. The bill is a massive attack on the working class and will harm the most marginalized, all while adding $3.3 trillion to the national debt. It makes severe cuts to the social safety net, especially healthcare programs like Medicaid and Medicare, as well as other programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps.

What Should Nonprofits Do If ICE Shows Up?

July 10, 2025 Cinnamon Janzer, Next City. , , ,
As immigration authorities continue their relentless arrests of tens of thousands of Americans, from undocumented immigrants to U.S. citizens, nonprofits across the country are facing a difficult question: What can they do to help the already-vulnerable people they serve when accessing their services means risking detention and deportation? It’s a challenge that New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a nonprofit civil rights law firm that provides free legal services to nonprofits and individuals in need, has been considering for years. And through a brief, jargon-free legal guide, they’re working to equip more nonprofits in New York City and beyond with the knowledge to protect their communities from the violence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweeps.

Fight ICE; Build The Union

July 9, 2025 Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare, Labor Notes. , , , ,
It was the morning of June 9, and Genie Kastrup, president of Service Employees Local 1, stood in front of Chicago’s Daley Plaza and bellowed into a microphone. “What is happening right now is about silencing voices,” she said, flanked by members of her union holding signs that read “Free David Huerta.” “It's about dividing working people,” she continued. “It's about dividing our communities against the have and have nots. It is abusing power.” The demonstration was one of 37 taking place that day across the country to protest the June 6 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assault and detention of Huerta, the president of SEIU California and SEIU-United Service Workers West.

ICE Wants To Work In Secret

July 9, 2025 Caitlin Vogus, Freedom of the Press Foundation. , , ,
Interested in what Immigration and Customs Enforcement is up to? Step right up to read ICE’s many press releases touting their accomplishments, watch Dr. Phil’s ICE ride-alongs on his new TV network, and, of course, follow ICE on social platform X. Just don’t expect to read independent reporting about ICE activity — at least not if government officials get their way. Journalists and members of the public who report on ICE are increasingly under attack by officials who would prefer to silence them so government propaganda can fill the information void.

I’ve Worked At Google For Decades; I’m Sickened By What It’s Doing

July 7, 2025 Emma Jackson, Portside. , , ,
When I joined Google, over 20 years ago, it was just a start-up employing a few thousand people. It felt like we were committed to making something useful for society. When I first visited the Mountain View headquarters and saw people in Google-branded T-shirts, I thought the company must make engineers wear a uniform—why else would someone wear a shirt announcing where they work? I’d never seen or experienced this sense of passion for one’s employer, but I soon saw why: Every few months, a new product or feature would launch that offered a free and truly useful service (Gmail! Google Maps!).
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