🧵From media collapse to labor’s rise: EHRP’s top 10 stories of 2024.

Rivera, who participated in the Stonewall uprising, dedicated her life to the liberation of low-income, incarcerated queer people of color. Since her passing in 2002, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project continues the fight in her memory. @SRLP.

Rivera seized the moment to discuss incarcerated drag queens and trans people who had been ignored by the mainstream gay rights movement. Her righteous anger and organizing skill drew in the antagonistic crowd, leading to chants of “Gay Power!”.

A speech by Latina trans activist & community organizer, Sylvia Rivera At NYC’s Gay Pride Parade in 1973, Rivera confronted a crowd of mostly white, mostly middle class gay people who tried to block her from speaking, even booing as she took the stage.

"One part of the answer is that local officials have come to rely on their police for order maintenance, a central feature of urban policing directed at a range of 'quality of life issues' tied to growing inequality and social exclusion." @avitale @lopez_wd for EHRP + @truthout.

"If cities like New York, Los Angeles & Minneapolis assert that they don’t cooperate with ICE, then why do we see a massive outpouring of local police resources to assist their raids indirectly and directly suppress protests?" @avitale @lopez_wd @truthout

New from EHRP and @truthout, reported by @avitale and @lopez_wd:. Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE's Deportation Machine

RT @lopez_wd: Sharing my latest with @avitale in.@truthout. Thanks to @econhardship for support. .

RT @nysfocus: NEW: Hotels and motels have quietly become New York’s most common solution for emergency shelter for homeless people outside….

Read White's article for EHRP and @guardian here:

Our contributor — and Florida hurricane survivor —Anthony White is navigating this crisis in real time. For EHRP + @guardian, White reports on Florida residents bracing for hurricane season while struggling to rebuild their lives after the onslaught of Idalia, Debby, and Helene.

Watch the whole thing;.

The Trump Admin is going after the NLRB, in part by pushing union busters into leadership roles. EHRP/Puffin Fellow Caitlyn Clark explains how the NLRB has historically supported workers as well as how workers have organized outside of it, as they will soon have to again.

Full story here:

NEW from EHRP: WrestleMania? In Los Angeles, It’s LuchaMania. For EHRP + @nytimes, photojournalist and EHRP Reporting Fellow @zaydee_s documents the luchadore rings of Los Angeles, where Mexican wrestlers find economic opportunities.

We first supported Fugett’s journalism early on in her career. We are honored to have been part of this book’s development.

ALIVE DAY by EHRP Book Fellow Karie Fugett is out now!📚(The Dial Press, @randomhouse). Fugett’s debut memoir about life as the wife and then widow of an American veteran who took his own life, has received praise from @KirkusReviews, @LibraryJournal, and @bookofthemonth

We first supported Fugett’s journalism early on in her career, and we are honored to have been part of this book’s development.

RT @lisquart: Take a look at this poem page in Current Affairs @NathanJRobinson @celinasu @econhardship @Toscano200 @RealisticPoetry https….

Today is #MayDay. And at EHRP, we celebrate worker power and dignity every day. In this clip from 2012, our late founder Barbara Ehrenreich explains why there is no such thing as an “unskilled worker.” We will keep shouting this truth in everything we do.

RT @RaySuarezNews: It will be a great event. At the very least, you’ll be able to see how time’s inexorable march has changed the cheery gu….