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The cover of our forthcoming summer issue of
@RethinkSchools
was illustrated by the incredible Erin Robinson. Support our work by signing up for a subscription now at
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BREAKING: This is big. The AFL-CIO is calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. The Federation represents 12.5 million people. The announcement comes after the
@SEIU
@AFTunion
@UAW
@APWUnational
@ueunion
@CTULocal1
and many other unions have called for peace and a stop to killing.
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Santita Jackson says she was fired today from WCPT820 (Chicago's progressive talk radio). It appears veteran comms pro
@SantitaJ
, daughter of Rev. Jesse Jackson, was removed because there was both too much critique of Democrats as well as Israel's assault on Gaza—on her own show
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BREAKING: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just called for a cease-fire. The announcement comes as the Chicago City Council is debating—& delayed—a vote on a cease-fire resolution. Chicago is a locus for the cease-fire movement & Johnson's call is a boost to those efforts for peace.
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Last week, 100+ Palestinians, Israelis, and Diaspora Jews with
@CJNVtweets
and
@ATLCol
came together to repair a road in the occupied West Bank.
An hour later, Israeli authorities were punching, beating, kicking, and choking us. I was given a concussion. 17 of us were arrested.
SHOCKING footage coming out from yesterday as
@CJNVtweets
delegate and
@IfNotNowOrg
organizer,
@bloomekatz
is punched by an Israeli solider. For what? Rehabilitating a critical access road for Palestinians.
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"I get very frustrated with people who try to pit the labor movement against disability justice." This interview isn't fluff.
@JortsTheCat
is about justice. What a cool cat. Here in conversation with
@aparna_gopalan
for
@inthesetimesmag
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Lots of young people are involved in
@NeverAgainActn
, but it is also one of the most intergenerational Jewish spaces I've ever organized in. For our action in WI, our planning team included ppl in their 30s and ppl in their 60s.
There's no age requirement to be
#JewsAgainstICE
ICYMI:
@NeverAgainActn
is led largely by young people, and calls on Jewish allies to shut down
#ICE
facilities
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“Whenever I hear the name Paul Vallas, I immediately think of a man who likes to take earmarked funding and redirect it in shallow ways that produce the appearance of fiscal solutions," writes
@deutsch29blog
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Translation after translation after translation …
This 🧵 is one the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen inside this hell scape of a platform
Came across Dr. Refaat Alareer's poem "If I must die" just a few days ago, I cried and couldn't help but translated it to Chinese without his permission. Now that he's gone.
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"We Need Eyes on Us for Protection": Unhinged, Murderous Settlers Terrorize Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills—Ryah Aqel
@inthesetimesmag
Youth of Sumud activist: “Israeli settler militias benefit from this state of war, they are...ruling this area.”
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“As a fighting union dedicated to the adherence of human rights, our most important representative body voted overwhelmingly in favor of a ceasefire to stop the senseless bloodshed of innocents and call for the return of all hostages," says
@jacksonpCTU
, vice president
@CTULocal1
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There’s no question that Schakowsky would still be silent if it wasn’t for the persistent and relentless pressure applied by so many organizations and progressive activists in Chicago. For 7 weeks she has tried to hide from and deflect criticism. Finally, she had no excuses left.
Jewish Rep. Jan Schakowsky calls to extend the Israel-Hamas ceasefire to "secure the release of all remaining hostages, to broker a long-term and sustainable cessation of violence, and to build a pathway for the creation of a democratic and sovereign Palestinian state"
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Former Lt. Gov.
@TheOtherMandela
writes in
@inthesetimesmag
that the stakes couldn't be higher on April 4 as "the Wisconsin State Supreme Court election will define what rights and freedoms we have as Wisconsinites for a generation."
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Jewish? Want all this killing to stop?
✅
✅
✅
✅
&
✅ join
@jvplive
+
@IfNotNowOrg
b/c it's more fun—and effective—to yell in a group.
&
✅ Yell like this:
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So inspired by
@UAW
that I dedicated
@inthesetimesmag
homepage to the union's recent monumental moves:
✅ Largest U.S. union to call for cease-fire
✅ Set out to organize 150,000 at non-union shops
✅ Leading way for general strike in 2028
✅ Took on Detroit's Big Three—and won
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Chicago just became the largest city in the U.S. to endorse a cease-fire. The move by the City Council comes shortly after Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his support for a cease-fire (Johnson broke an initial 23-23 tie on the council's resolution).
@inthesetimesmag
story coming
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BREAKING IN CHICAGO: This is 6-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume. He was stabbed to death by his landlord who was yelling "you Muslims must die!" when he went to the downstairs unit and attacked Wadea and his mother.
This is the press release from CAIR:
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23 journalists dead: 19 Palestinian, 3 Israeli, 1 Lebanese.
8 injured.
1 might be a hostage, 1 detained by the IDF, 1 missing.
These are the names of the dead. Our responsibility is to keep telling stories about the horrors they covered—and the horrors that killed them, too.
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.
@jacksonpCTU
is speaking at a demonstration today: "As a union of educators dedicated to empowering the next generation, we are deeply concerned by the loss of civilian life and indiscriminate bombing throughout Gaza, where half the Palestinians living there are children.” 🧵
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BREAKING: "GM has now agreed in writing to place their electric battery manufacturing under our master national agreement."—
@ShawnFainUAW
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“As teachers our most ... cherished responsibility is to defend and protect children, and that's why we stand with you today demanding a ceasefire now,” says
@jacksonpCTU
at the Chicago demonstration by
@JVPChicago
@IfNotNowChi
+
@CHINeverAgain
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"Anyone who tells you it’s fair that working people are dying while the richest among us rake in record profits has lost their moral compass."
"God is on the Side of Autoworkers" by
@RevDrBarber
who wrote about faith, morality + the UAW
@inthesetimesmag
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We asked Paul Vallas for an interview 2x. No response. We asked
@Brandon4Chicago
for an interview and he paused a meeting with Jesse Jackson to talk to us about fighting youth poverty and keeping Chicagoans safe. Here’s what he told
@maximillian_alv
:
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Our 24-hour vigil + alternate
#SOTU2024
—the State of the Genocide—featured on
@democracynow
this morning. Me &
@emanabdelhadi
wrote + gave the speech. Broad coalition came together to make this happen including
@JVPChicago
@uspcn
@coreteachers
@IfNotNowChi
@wearedissenters
+ more
Activists gave a “State of the Genocide” address last night in response to Biden’s State of the Union. “Business cannot go on as usual and we are not going away. This genocide has been going on for 152 days and it is 100% an American project,” says
@emanabdelhadi
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This is a real article in a real newspaper about what might happen to you if you visit the “only democracy in the Middle East.” (Spoiler alert: They threaten to separate you from your kids)
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"Educators must be part of an all-hands-on-deck response." — From the
@RethinkSchools
editorial in response to SCOTUS overturning Roe.
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There's a new Jewish Anti-Fascist Learning Circle in Chicago with amazing facilitators. No sponsoring orgs. It's all free. COVID precautions. Only so many spots for each class. Just anti-fascism on top of anti-fascism on top of anti-fascism.
Sign up now:
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There have been several bombshell articles and reports recently of how much Paul Vallas has harmed public education across the country (& world) including just absolutely mismanaging the finances of districts he's been tasked to lead. A 🧵
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We’re really excited!
@GrimKim
is joining
@hamiltonnolan
as a Labor writer
@inthesetimesmag
— and we’re not stopping there. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be announcing a whole new slate of regular contributors. You’ll recognize their names because they’re fucking badasses.
We’re thrilled to announce
@GrimKim
as our new Labor Writer!
Kim’s reporting centers the lives and aspirations of working people, with a rigorous eye for the structural conditions that shape their lives.
Pitch her: kim
@inthesetimes
.com
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First off,
@bungarsargon
@jdforward
@rudoren
, if you come for Shahanna McKinney-Baldon (
@ShahannaMB
), you come for all of us. There are few who have done more to combat anti-Semitism and racism and build Jewish community in Wisconsin and across the Midwest.
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Cover of the spring issue of
@RethinkSchools
by
@adriafruitos
. Lead story is from
@sarahljaffe
about teachers leaving the field or thinking of leaving earlier & the impact that could have on public ed. There are now 567,000 fewer teachers now than at the start of the pandemic.
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It appears rumors of great resignations
@DemSocialists
have been greatly exaggerated—and that the opposite is the reality. The org is seeing a surge in membership based on its antiwar work.
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New issue—“All Eyes on Gaza”—just arrived at the
@inthesetimesmag
office. Should be hitting your mailbox soon. Includes pieces from
@YousefAljamal
@emanabdelhadi
@RVilkomerson
&
@DaniaRajendra
@ayaghanameh
@hbhicks4
@MattBors
@WeAreNotNumbers
@NatashaRoth01
+ many others.
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*Some news*
Send tips, pitches, and the best places in Chicago to find knishes to ari
@inthesetimes
.com.
We’re thrilled to announce Ari Bloomekatz as our new Executive Editor!
Ari is a veteran journalist who began his career at the
@latimes
and comes to us after 5 years as Managing Editor
@RethinkSchools
.
Read more about him at and follow him:
@Bloomekatz
.
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BREAKING:
@IfNotNowChi
@JVPChicago
@NeverAgainActn
are blocking traffic in downtown Chicago to disrupt business as usual and demand a ceasefire now!
Durbin! Duckworth! Get your shit together and be the leaders we need for a world of peace and justice!
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I knew of
@HelenGymPHL
previously as a legendary editor at
@RethinkSchools
and tireless advocate for education justice. But while editing this article by
@schooldaves
for
@inthesetimesmag
, I learned some amazing things about her I want to share. 🧵
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Lots of press at the beginning of the
#StateOfTheGenocide
24-hour vigil in Chicago and alternate
#SOTU2024
. Sponsors
@JVPChicago
@uspcn
@coreteachers
@IfNotNowOrg
@AMPalestine
+ others. Join us in federal plaza b/w now and 8 am Friday +
#StateOfGenocide
speech is 8:30 pm tonight
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The announcements from the
@APWUnational
+
@CTULocal1
could—activists, organizers, and many others hope—signal a profound moment for a shift in how U.S. labor is approaching the violence in Israel & Palestine. So far, labor has largely—though increasingly—refrained from doing so.
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Solidarity and love to everyone working to end the Occupation.
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"UAW Endorses Cease-Fire, the Largest U.S. Union to Call for an Immediate End to the Violence" by
@mindyisser
@inthesetimesmag
The news came alongside a White House hunger strike by
@AdalahJustice
@jvplive
@IfNotNowOrg
@Dreamdefenders
@DemSocialists
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Yesterday, ICE agents tore Jose Alejandro De la Cruz-Espinoza away from his family and three young daughters — and they did it with help from
@MilwaukeePolice
.
His wife said there was no search warrant.
"They terrorized my family," she said. 1/5
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"The Next Target for Protests Against the Israeli Military: Ports" by
@GrimKim
@AROCBayArea
turned ppl out.
@GuyOron
chronicled.
@movementphotog
documented. Kim also notes the radical history of
@ILWU_10
. w/support from
@KatrinaPham_
+
@nataschaelena
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"One may wonder why Israel would kidnap a poet. The answer, though painful, is simple. In its genocidal war against Palestinians, Israel seeks to erase not only Palestinian lives but also their culture and heritage"—
@JehadAbusalim
on poet Mosab Abu Toha
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Palestinian children face this kind of treatment regularly. But we can’t overstate how horrible it was to watch in person.
It’s almost certain that no soldier or police officer will be held accountable, even in a case as apparently clear-cut as this.
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This is Jose de la Cruz and his family. Jose was finally released on bond today 3 months after
@MilwaukeePolice
collaborated with
@ICEgov
to tear him away from his family as they were getting ready for school.
They are why we have to show up to MKE City Hall tomorrow at 4 p.m.
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#NeverAgainMeans
no humans in cages
#NeverAgainMeans
no family separated
#NeverAgain
right here rn
#NeverAgainMeans
never again
#NeverAgain
for the memory of our ppl
#NeverAgain
b/c nobody is illegal
#NeverAgain
no way no how
#NeverAgainMeans
never again
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Every news story about
@SenCortezMasto
should at the very least mention that 450 canvassers with
@unitehere
knocked on literally 1 million doors in Nevada.
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We are so close to ending
@MilwaukeePolice
collaboration w/ICE and need as many ppl as possible to turn out for the critical vote by the Fire & Police Commission tomorrow (Oct. 31) at City Hall at 5:15 pm. We can't allow our neighbors to continue living in fear.
#NeverAgainIsNow
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Every
#COVID19
death has a name. Every person that died deserves to be named. On May 20, we will be
#NamingTheLost
for 24 hours.
@NamingTheLost
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We watched as the boy was grabbed, choked, beaten, and had his back bent painfully by Israeli soldiers, all in broad daylight. He begged for them to stop. It was horrifying.
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If you don't know
@ShahannaMB
, here she is carrying the torah and leading
#JWOCmarching
in January. Photos of her from that march have become iconic for showing the strength and pride of being a Jew of color and the joyful diversity of our Jewish communities.
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The US created a foundation that was supposed to unfreeze billions in Afghanistan's foreign assets. But no funds have been disbursed or plans made to do so. Meanwhile millions of Afghans are starving. SCOOP by
@sarahlazare
@inthesetimesmag
@workdaymagazine
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"Mass standardized testing is the engine of corporate education reform and its supporters feared a second year without scores could permanently weaken the testing machine." Important piece from Stan Karp about current high-stakes testing w/an amazing illustration from
@elivalley
One month after taking office, the Biden administration faced its first major education policy test. It failed miserably.
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If you want someone to know what's at stake in Chicago on April 4, share this video from
@MorePerfectUS
made in partnership with
@inthesetimesmag
and hosted by veteran editor
@MilesKLassin
. As MPU—and pretty much everyone—notes "This is one of the most important races of 2023."
NEW: This is one of the most important races of 2023.
Public school teacher Brandon Johnson is running for Chicago mayor against Paul Vallas, who has decimated public schools across the U.S.
Support from Republican mega-donors has Vallas on the verge of victory.
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14% of Chicago Dems Voted Blank or Write-in for President
@inthesetimesmag
"Chicago organizers were able to strongly refute Biden’s unrestricted funding of genocide in Gaza.”—Layla Elabed (Uncommitted National &
@Listen2Michigan
)
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The brilliant staff
@inthesetimesmag
works hard to bring readers consistent, high-quality, impactful storytelling—and we're so grateful for all the freelancers & artists who make our pages sing. Support independent media &
@inthesetimesmag
by subscribing:
We're thrilled to announce that In These Times been awarded an Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.
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"The labor movement has a special responsibility—and existential need—to defend transgender people and their loved ones from these escalating attacks."—Important piece by Amy Livingston +
@sarahlazare
. Joint pub b/w
@workdaymagazine
+
@inthesetimesmag
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Sometimes I have a hard time deciding whether the Chicago Tribune is essentially a disinformation machine or if it's just a vehicle for right-wing propaganda ... and the scary thing is that it's both.
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s "Bring Chicago Home" referendum has essentially been booted from the March 19 ballot after a Cook County judge on Friday sided with business and real estate interests who oppose the measure.
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One brilliant piece is from
@jimdaleywrites
of
@TheTRiiBE
that not only tracks Vallas' efforts to privatize public schools across the country, but also looks at how he promoted military schools and expanded zero-tolerance policies and standardized testing.
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"Across Central Appalachia — and specifically Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia — coal miners are struggling to breathe." Black lung has been on the rise for the past decade. Brilliant reporting by
@GrimKim
for the cover story of
@inthesetimesmag
.
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The cover story is by
@_cierrajade_
who wrote about her own teaching practice and the influence of
@cynthiabdillard
's new book about Black women teachers (re)membering. Also has editorials about teaching for joy in spite of everything and reproductive justice and our classrooms.
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The call by Jen Angel’s community for restorative justice in the wake of her murder is being lifted up as a model nationally. "I hope my community would know to do the same for me" said
@prisonculture
. Read the piece in
@inthesetimesmag
by
@movementphotog
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Yesterday,
@jacobplitman
, I, and others from the group worked with advocates at
@yeshdin
to give testimony about the assaults — most importantly about the severe mistreatment and possible torture of a Palestinian minor who was arrested with us.
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Wow, the
@washingtonpost
just called our book "a handbook to help all educators fight racism." We've also been supported by
@mosesbread72
@opalayo
@lsarsour
@darnell_hunt
@KeeangaYamahtta
and so many others. Just humbled and honored. Get your copy at
"A collection of writings that help educators humanize blacks in curriculum, teaching and policy and connect lessons to young people’s lives." Teaching for Black Lives reviewed today in the
@washingtonpost
! Get your copy at
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If you want news about the genocide, you can now find the best collection of it at
Honored
@inthesetimesmag
is in coalition on this w/
@truthout
@prismreports
@haymarketbooks
@_convergencemag
@ForgeOrganizing
@Mondoweiss
@TheRealNews
@scalawagmag
@wagingnv
The mainstream press has worked overtime to provide cover for Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
We’re proud to announce Media Against Apartheid and Displacement, a new platform from a coalition of movement journalism orgs working to uplift urgent reporting on the genocide.
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This new tool is amazing and more proof that
@StrikeDebt
is one of the most transformative efforts underway in the country.
Last year, while investigating the backstory of a 91 y/o woman w 330K in student debt for
@NewYorker
, I contacted the Dept. of Ed. who realized something had gone terribly wrong. They cancelled ALL the woman's debt.
Today
@StrikeDebt
launches a tool to make that happen for ALL.
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"How Can We Get Alan Dershowitz to Shut up Forever?"
New comics
@inthesetimesmag
about Alan Dershowitz, the NYPD, COP28 & a play on The Wasteland. h/t our amazing comics editor
@MattBors
& the other incredible artists
@Lubchansky
@JenSorensen
@tomtomorrow
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New
@inthesetimesmag
:
“In our topsy-turvy reality, the organization most associated with fighting antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League, has cast its lot with antisemites.”
ADL + Greenblatt making it less safe to be a progressive Jew by
@BenLorber8
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Shawn Fain wore an "Eat the Rich" shirt today when he announced the UAW's game changing victory. GM agreed to include its EV battery plants in the union's national contract. Read all about it in this great piece by
@Lfelizleon
from
@labornotes
.
#StandUpUAW
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Underscoring the myriad reasons
@haymarketbooks
is a truly revolutionary publishing project is the amazing—FREE—collection they issued today w/
@VersoBooks
: "From the River to the Sea." Includes writers like
@4noura
@m7mdkurd
@nkulw
+ so many others
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The data is clear ...
Youth helped make it happen in Chicago.
Youth helped make it happen in Wisconsin.
If the Democratic Party wants to keep winning they have to listen to groups like
@sunrisemvmt
and
@NextGenAmerica
and run on platforms important to young folks
#FTW
Youth voter turnout played a significant role in Brandon Johnson’s win.
Voters aged 18 to 24 increased their turnout by about 5,000 votes on April 4 compared to February 28, an increase of more than 30 percent.
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We're hiring an Associate Editor! Come work with the great team
@inthesetimesmag
. Applications considered on a rolling basis but we'll stop accepting them after May 5. Apply now! DM me with any ?s
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@ShawnFainUAW
Want to get a sense of what a big deal this could be? Check out the incredible investigation that
@Lfelizleon
did with
@inthesetimesmag
around the Ultium Cells plant (high-profile joint venture between GM and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution) in Ohio:
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"We are pouring our blood, sweat and tears into organizing young people. Democrats, what are you doing?"
@VarshPrakash
of
@sunrisemvmt
on how young people saved the midterms and why Democrats must invest in youth if they want to win in 2024 and beyond.
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“I read that NYT op-ed and thought, fuck, I should really subscribe to
@JewishCurrents
” — my brother Josh Bloomekatz
Be like Josh and subscribe for $18 at
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All eyes on Wisconsin’s primary today and
@listentowi
Vote Uninstructed Campaign in the most critical swing state in the country that Biden previously beat Trump by only 20K votes. Check
@inthesetimesmag
for post-vote analysis.
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Second, the way
@bungarsargon
singled out and targeted
@ShahannaMB
in her column about Bard was yet another attack by her and the
@jdforward
on a woman of color. It was editorially unnecessary to name her, and what's worse, she mischaracterized and misrepresented the truth.
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Elon Musk can't hide behind clowns like Ben Shapiro or absurd claims of being "aspirationally Jewish." We know anti-semitism when we see it and Musk has peddled it, enabled it, embodied it, and promoted it. Was honored to sign on to this letter.
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This is the only progressive Jewish publication in the United States still in print — and it's been in print since 1946.
@tikkunonline
stopped printing.
@jdforward
stopped printing.
@JewishCurrents
is just getting started.
Help them thrive by subscribing @
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“It is important for unions to ask themselves, for all of us to ask ourselves...what did we do when Gaza was being decimated to ashes?”—Amira/Palestine Labor Network
"The U.S. Labor Voices Opposing Military Aid to Israel" by
@JeffSchuhrke
+
@sarahlazare
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"We can’t stand idly by while the U.S. government continues to send weapons and military aid with the tax dollars that would be better spent addressing the root causes of violence," Potter says, continuing:
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Santita Jackson was fired from her show on WCPT820 (Chicago's progressive talk radio) yesterday, but was supposed to have a show today (I was a planned guest). But the show was canceled, and when I tuned in, the person hosting was talking about why we need to get behind Biden.
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You can support
@NeverAgainActn
,
@CosechaMovement
, and the Never Again movement in Wisconsin by picking up one of these
@americanapparel
shirts for just $18. Get one (or several) here:
#NeverAgainIsNow
(h/t Sam Fine on design)
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Singing is one my favorite things about
@IfNotNowOrg
—and how it's used to organize and fuel the movement is pretty incredible (check out ). In this article
@inthesetimesmag
, Paul Engler argues why we need more of that.
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Last week, just days after
@MilwaukeePolice
helped
@ICEgov
separate a Milwaukee family, the Fire & Police Commission canceled their policy committee mtg where they were going to discuss such collaboration.
They are hoping we don't show up to tomorrow's (Thurs) meeting. 1/9
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.
@ArleneInouye
told
@inthesetimesmag
that it was "a groundbreaking, comprehensive contract won by our collective power that includes a 21% salary increase, improved working conditions and common good demands” like the ones below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Lead-free drinking water at school is in our tentative agreement.
Union made solar panels and electric buses is in our tentative agreement.
We're expanding what it means for organized educators to fight for environmental and climate justice in our schools.
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Want some truth about Shahanna McKinney-Baldon? In September,
@ShahannaMB
did something revolutionary for Jews across the Midwest when she founded
@EdotMidwest
: The Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity Collaborative. Check them out (and donate) here:
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She's kind.
She's strong.
She's humble.
She's brilliant.
She's a great mother, a great partner, a great daughter, and a great friend.
You'd have to go so far out of your way to say something bad about
@ShahannaMB
that one wonders why
@bungarsargon
& the
@jdforward
would even try
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"We need a ceasefire to save Palestinian and Israeli lives, bring Israeli hostages home, and pull the region back from the brink of catastrophic war. And we need more fighting unions across the country to join us in this movement,”
@jacksonpCTU
says.
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At 9 pm CST, me &
@emanabdelhadi
will give an alternate
#SOTU2024
in Chicago’s Federal Plaza, where activists are reading name after name of those murdered in Gaza during a 24-hour vigil co-sponsored by
@JVPChicago
@uspcn
@wearedissenters
@IfNotNowChi
+ more.
#StateOfTheGenocide
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The
@CTULocal1
house of delegates overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Nov. 1 to sign on to a ceasefire letter organized by
@ueunion
+
@ufcw3000
"calling for human rights, for the release of all hostages, and for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine."
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Another is this *omfg* report from
@matthewccook5
in
@levernews
that basically says that when Vallas led Chicago PS, his actions resulted in $1.5 billion (with a "b") going from the schools to "some of the wealthiest individuals and banks on the planet."
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"The entire labor movement owes this moment to Karen Lewis because she led a movement that said, 'We’re gonna do this differently, we’re going to fight for it differently.'"—Great Labor Day interview w/
@FlyingWithSara
+
@nataschaelena
of
@inthesetimesmag
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Most anyone in Wisconsin and the Midwest also knows that
@ShahannaMB
is one of the few links for positive discourse in our Jewish communities — a connector, a bridge between denominations, races, backgrounds, politics, and classes.
If Shahanna's involved, everyone's involved.
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Proud to be among 100 Jewish leaders from across the country about to march to the Capitol with
@bend_thearc
and several other orgs to demand Congress pass a
#CleanDreamAct
now! “Like our nation’s dreamers, we shall not be moved.”
#DreamActNow
#LetMyPeopleStay
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Disabled People Are Heroes
Disabled People Are Amazing
Disabled People Are Brothers
Disabled People Are Uncles
Disabled People Are Friends
Disabled People Are Lovers
Disabled People Aren't Here for Your Ableist Bullshit
#DisabledPeopleAreHot
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Wisconsin Jews: This is our moment of truth. Will we raise our voices and put our bodies on the line? When we say “never again,” will we ensure that we mean “never again” for all people, or just our own?
Add your name >>
#JewsAgainstICE
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1) There were only 12 days last year when police didn't kill someone.
2) Police killed nearly 100 people a month in 2022.
3) Police killed more than 3 people a day on average.
4) Police killed 1,176 people in 2022.
Police kill. Police kill. Police kill.
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