Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes not happening at all.

NEW: Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat

The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice, and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes isn’t happening at all.

Activists call on government to enact heat protection for farm workers Ontario’s farm workers need specific rules to protect them in hot conditions, they argued

News coverage from our recent action around heat stress

www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

‘End the Plantation System’: Justice for Migrant Workers at London’s Caribbean Cultural Festival - Antler River Media Co-op The following is the speech delivered by Chris Ramsaroop from Justice for Migrant Workers to attendees of Island Fest, a celebration of Caribbean culture in London, on July 26. He has been organizing ...

My extended speech from a few weeks back at London!/ Island Fest.

antlerrivermedia.ca/end-the-plan...

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Longshore Workers Remember the Struggle To Free the Charleston Five Dockworkers from around the world reunited in South Carolina for a week in June to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the successful campaign to “Free the Charleston 5” and the founding of the Intern...

Longshore Workers Remember the Struggle To Free the Charleston Five

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BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.

“The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

Meet the Group That Planted Over 22,000 Trees to Fight Colonialism's Impact in Puerto Rico Centuries of colonialism cost Puerto Rico's native mangroves. This group has planted over 22,000 since 2023.

Centuries of colonialism cost Puerto Rico's native mangroves. This group has planted over 22,000 since 2023. Read the full story:

How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels Something felt off. Tim Searchinger lacked the proper credentials to say exactly what was off that day in the spring of 2003. He was a lawyer, not a scientist or economist. He was reading a complex…

LitHub ran an excerpt from WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, from the scene where my dork-hero first realizes there's something fishy about all the studies that claimed ethanol was greener than gasoline. lithub.com/how-big-agri...

It’s so hot outside we gonna fry an egg on the sidewalk to show the impact of extreme heat on workers. Join us tomorrow!

What Free Transit Looks Like in Albuquerque, Nearly Two Years After the City Eliminated Fares While some cities are walking back their zero-fare initiatives, Albuquerque sees free transit as a lifeline for its homeless and low-income populations.

"Albuquerque made zero-fare transit permanent in November 2023, becoming one of the largest U.S. cities to implement zero-fare transit. About a year and a half later, transit officials and advocates say the zero-fare program is working as intended, by serving the city’s lowest-income residents."

Youth Organizers Like Us Fought for a Zohran Mamdani Win "Those seeing Mamdani's victory as an overnight success are missing the bigger picture — namely, the political movement built over decades, largely by young people, that made this moment possible."

"Those seeing Mamdani's victory as an overnight success are missing the bigger picture — namely, the political movement built over decades, largely by young people"

Read more about the youth organizers who helped secure that Mamdani win ⤵️

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility.

He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.”

Thread 👇

Labor Department moves to end disability hiring goal for federal contractors Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer plans to axe a longstanding, successful incentive program for disabled workers.

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

#toronto. One of a few H20 trucks. At City Hall. 1 pm. In middle of a heat wave. What a waste. Wrong location.

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

Farmworkers Announce Nationwide Strike Against Immigration Raids Farmworkers across the U.S. strike July 16–18, 2025, protesting recent immigration raids that detained hundreds, including children, and a death during a California raid. The strike demands an end to ...

A magnificent action. #Farmworkers
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French case shows the need for telework legislation - Eurocadres Delay of EU action affecting million

FRANCE / EUROPE: French case shows the need for telework legislation www.eurocadres.eu/news/french-...

INDIA: Congratulations to workers, farmers,agri-workersand the people at large for the Grand Success of the Nationwide General Strike on 09 July 2025 www.citucentre.org/914-congratu...

A volunteer network documents ICE operations across Colorado. Here’s how it works. | Colorado Newsline The Colorado Rapid Response Network, a coalition of nonprofits, was founded to document ICE sightings and has amassed about 3,000 volunteers.

The Colorado Rapid Response Network runs a 24/7 hotline and documents ICE sightings throughout Colorado. It has amassed about 3K volunteers. ICE has condemned the network for allegedly interfering with its work, but members say they're protecting local communities.

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THIS is what courage looks like.Today, striking farmworkers bravely stood in front of cameras, the community, and the press, risking their jobs, safety, and future. To speak the truth. About the stolen wages. About the years of being unheard.
This is a movement. And today was a turning point.

Thanks so much Naomi! (and here's the link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... )

To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee

La Via Campesina hosts a webinar in solidarity with Palestine tomorrow #AllEyesOnGaza 🕒 Time: 12 UTC / 14 CEST
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➡️Registration link : nolog.link/s/GlobalWebi...

For New York canners, a dime could make all the difference The deposit on a bottle remains just 5 cents. The “Bottle Bill” could change working and living conditions for canners

New York City canners—many of them immigrants and people of color—help keep millions of containers out of landfills. Their work keeps the country’s largest city cleaner, yet their contributions remain largely unrecognized. My latest for @prismreports.org

These Los Angeles tenants are saying no to rent hikes How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city's housing crisis.

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis.

“I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

Cover of The Grind, with nameplate in black, yellow and pink at the top. The main photo is a plate with fries and a wrap and a hand reaching down to grab a fry. The writing reads "THE FOOD ISSUE" and at the top there are boxes reading "PG. 20 MUSIC FESTIVALS" and "FRINGE FAVOURITES PG.22"

The Food Issue is here, looking at delicious GTA eats and the less discussed sides of the industry.

Paper copies are going out into the TTC and elsewhere this weekend and early next week.

Half the articles are online now and the rest will be up soon: www.thegrindmag.ca/issue/2025-s...