“Alabama prisons are completely lawless at this point,” author Matthew Whalan says. “A lot of the order that is injected into them is really just from prisoners organizing themselves.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
No contract, no coffee, no scabs: Starbucks workers strike nationwide
“This is an open-ended strike… They’re going to be on strike until they win. This is a big escalation… That’s got to be kind of scary for the suits.”
Posted inStories of Resistance
How farmers fought the banks and won: Penny auctions in the Great Depression
When the banks put farmers’ homes and land up for auction, their neighbors would arrive already committed to keep the price low. They would bid next to nothing, then give it all back. This is episode 76 of Stories of Resistance.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
Progressive challenger Katie Wilson elected mayor of Seattle
“The Zohran moment extends beyond NYC,” said one organizer.
Posted inInequality Watch
Jeffrey Epstein: How wealth protected America’s worst child sex criminal
For nearly 20 years, Jeffrey Epstein’s fortune shielded him from justice. We followed the money to uncover how privilege and power made his crimes possible.
Posted inThe Marc Steiner Show
‘This is the hill to die on for universities’: free speech can survive Trump, but not without a fight
A veteran of the free speech movement in the ‘60s, historian David Hollinger shares hard-won lessons about defending free speech and academic freedom from extinction in the age of Trump.
Posted inWorking People
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
“We’ve been fighting for a very long time, and we’re at the point now where we’re done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve all of these ridiculous Unfair Labor Practice charges.”
Posted inPolitics and Movements: International
Amnesty blasts Israeli death penalty bill as ‘institutionalized discrimination against Palestinians’
A leader at the human rights group called the proposal “a dangerous and dramatic step backwards and a product of ongoing impunity for Israel’s system of apartheid and its genocide in Gaza.”
Posted inRattling the Bars
Inside the modern-day plantation: How theater confronts incarceration
The Peculiar Patriot, performed in more than 35 US prisons, reveals the human cost of mass incarceration and the enduring ties between slavery and the prison system.
Posted inPolitics and Movements: US
‘Absolutely Pathetic’: Senate Democrats Denounced for Caving to GOP in Shutdown Fight
“Let’s be clear — this proposal isn’t a compromise, it’s a capitulation,” said one progressive lawmaker in the US House.
