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Where energy, grit, creativity, resiliency, and solidarity came together for three (3) solid, pulsating days… Labor Notes is the forty-five (45) year-young, dynamic media and organizing project serving frontline union activists and agitators – self-described troublemakers committed to infusing the…

This being the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it was only appropriate that the 21y.o. Netroots Nation (shorthand for ‘Internet Grassroots Nation’) came back to Philly, the cradle of our republic’s birth in 1776. The conference, unsurprisingly, had…

Subject: Urgent Call to Override the Mayor’s Veto and Pass the FAAR Act into Law March 30, 2026 Dear Honorable Councilmember, Thank you for your March 3 vote to pass the Full Accountability in Arrest Reporting (FAAR) Emergency Amendment Act…

I heard the reports of Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran, fresh from the field, at 1:30 am ET, Saturday 28 February. Hardly a surprise to me, as the incentives for two fascist heads of state, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald…

Daniel Ellsberg, who former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called “The Most Dangerous Man in America” for revealing the secret history and nuclear threats of the U.S. war in Vietnam, left the living on Friday morning, June 16, due to inoperable…

I remember well meeting Harry Belafonte, along with Coretta Scott King, at a peace rally in Bonn, West Germany, in the “hot autumn” of ’81 — October 10, 1981, to be precise. A truly remarkable human being, dedicated social justice…

Thanks to Mark Hertsgaard who translated the just-released (20 March 2023) scientific language-laden UN “last warning” on climate change danger here: https://coveringclimatenow.org/climate-beat-story/translating-the-ipcc-report-into-plain-english 1. Countries must now do “everything, everywhere, all at once” to limit heat-trapping emissions; 2. If we “act now”…

Justice for All blog launch, 2023: Reflecting on the “miracle” year that was and projecting the “magical” year to come, I am most struck by the radical hospitality, hope, and love of the Cuban people we encountered in the first…