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Little Fishermen, Rich Fisherman and Why Our Videos Got Raided

November 10, 2023

The federal government introduced a misguided, market-based system to conserve our oceans. Now, thousands of small fishermen are going out of business while a lucky few are striking it rich.

Have an Autoimmune Disease? Blame the Black Death

November 10, 2023

The same genes that helped your ancestors survive the bubonic plague in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa may be contributing to autoimmune disease today.

November 10, 2023

SAG-AFTRA Lauds New Deal, Valuing It at Over $1B With “Unprecedented” Provisions & “Extraordinary Scope”

Peter White Deadline

SAG-AFTRA says that its tentative agreement with the studios is worth more than $1 billion over three years and added that it has “extraordinary scope” and “unprecedented provisions.”

November 10, 2023

Parade Rest

Joseph Zaccardi Slipstream

California poet Joseph Zaccardi reminds us that war veterans carry their burdens through their lifetimes.

November 9, 2023

Last Night’s GOP Debate Showed the Republican Party’s Lunacy Even Without Donald Trump

Luke Savage Jacobin

The Republican presidential debate last night was an unhinged parade of War on Terror–style militarism and paranoid saber-rattling. With or without Donald Trump, the GOP has absolutely lost it.

November 9, 2023

Ohio Abortion Vote Shows Value of Direct Democracy

Alice Clapman Brennan Center for Justice

The ballot initiative process is a crucial way for the public to make its voice heard, especially when gerrymandering gets in the way.

November 9, 2023

Striking Actors and Hollywood Studios Agree to a Deal

Brooks Barnes, John Koblin and Nicole Sperling New York Times

The agreements with actors and writers represent a capitulation by Hollywood’s biggest companies, which started the bargaining process with an expectation that the unions, especially SAG-AFTRA, would be relatively compliant.

November 9, 2023

Maxwell Frost on Ron DeSantis, Hopes for a Progressive Florida, and the Power of Collective Movement

Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost Teen Vogue

As long as we believe, as long as we do not lose hope, hope will remain alive. No one party or politician is going to save us — we, the people, are going to save us. Because we believe, because we care, because we love.

November 9, 2023

How a Fight Over Two Jobs Pushed the Dockworker Union Into Bankruptcy

Ronald D. White Los Angeles Times

We intend to use the Chapter 11 process to implement a plan that will bring this matter to resolution and ensure that our Union continues to do its important work for our members and the community,” said ILWU President Willie Adams.

November 9, 2023

Tidbits – Nov. 9, 2023 – Reader Comments: Ceasefire, Humanitarian Pause, Stop Bombing, Free Hostages; Stop Ethnic Cleansing; Israeli Apartheid; Labor Victories This Year; New Film – ISRAELISM Documentary; Building Progressive Political Power;

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Reader Comments: Ceasefire, Humanitarian Pause, Stop the Bombing, Free the Hostages; Stop Ethnic Cleansing; Israel an Apartheid State; Labor Victories This Year; New Film - ISRAELISM documentary; Strategies to Build Progressive Political Power; more