Culture & Media
Readings: A Labor Day Sampler
Check out this handy collection of American Prospect stories on the state of labor and the labor movement in the U.S. The anthology, The Good Fight, can be browsed online or downloaded for offline reading.
It features pieces by Robert Kuttner, Tracy McMillan, Josh Eidelson and Harold Meyerson — including Meyerson’s recent profile of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, “L.A. Story.”
Perfect reading for this Labor Day weekend!
Baseball Players Go to Bat for Laid-Off Workers
Pandemic Nation Podcast: Workers’ Right to Return to Jobs
Saving Mt. Wilson
Gavin Newsom and Big Oil:
It’s Complicated
Cash of the Titans: Prop. 15’s Big-Spending Opposition
Detention Dispatches: Frightful Night Flights
Death, Miscarriage and COVID-19:
Inside ICE Air’s History of Medical Neglect
Homeless Deaths Are Spiking in Los Angeles and Beyond
Before COVID-19, the Number of Uninsured Americans Grew by 2.3 Million Under Trump
Silence of the Dems: Why Aren’t There More Prop. 15 Endorsements?
Eviction Tsunami Averted for Now
The White Supremacist House: Extremism in the Trump Administration
Statewide Protests Target California’s Immigrant Detention Centers
Protesters Call on L.A. Mayor to Cancel Rent
Strange Fruit In California?
Detention DispatchesSeptember 19, 2020Detention Dispatches: Frightful Night Flights
Latest NewsSeptember 19, 2020Death, Miscarriage and COVID-19:
Inside ICE Air’s History of Medical Neglect
CoronavirusAugust 31, 2020Homeless Deaths Are Spiking in Los Angeles and Beyond
Latest NewsSeptember 15, 2020Before COVID-19, the Number of Uninsured Americans Grew by 2.3 Million Under Trump
The Great California Tax WarSeptember 2, 2020Silence of the Dems: Why Aren’t There More Prop. 15 Endorsements?
Latest NewsSeptember 7, 2020Labor Day Reality Check: Tefere Gebre on the State of the Unions
The Heat 2020September 10, 2020The Race For an Obscure Texas Office Could Have a Lasting Impact on Climate Change
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