Adan Alvarez

Trump has done more to undermine the culture of life than he has to build it up.

Did labor overplay its hand with the postwar strike wave that justified Taft Hartley’s passage in 1947?

It was the government sitting the steel companies down and telling them as the war started that if it wanted contracts from the government, it was going to have to accept the union.

He was concerned that organized labor would just become a junior party in the Democratic coalition that didn’t have real power but also didn’t have the ability to extricate itself. He wasn’t wrong about this.

CIO leaders such as Sidney Hillman worked hard to seal those connections. They knew that the Roosevelt administration had created the legal conditions for unions to succeed, through the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act, not to mention the Supreme Court appointees.

This Day in Labor History: October 25, 1940. John L. Lewis gave a speech denouncing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and endorsing the Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie. This alienated Lewis from the rest of the CIO, which he had founded and funded. Let's talk about this weird moment.

So when the CIO formed, most of its leaders quickly realized that its future was going to be tied to the Democratic Party. Once huge difference between the federations was their understanding of politics. The AFL preferred to stay above politics. Their leaders were naive.

They still thought the future of labor was a contest to be decided between unions and employers in the contract, without a role for the government. The long history of government putting its thumb on the scale for the employers did not seem to break this.

Cory Booker is getting more press than any protest I will ever attend or organize. This is a very effective protest.

Turns out working people don't really like the richest man on earth trying to buy their democracy

“Avowed segregationist” is not hyperbole btw. Charlie Kirk was running a public smear campaign on MLK Jr. as recently as last year.

Why was the governor sitting down to discuss areas of shared agreement with an avowed segregationist in the first place?

“We consider your expectations regarding the showing of gratitude for the material assistance provided by the U.S. to Ukraine to be offensive,” wrote Wałęsa & his colleagues to Trump. “Gratitude should be given to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defense of the values ​​of the free 🌍”

At the rate this is going Elon will be married to Melania soon

Bolsonaro Charged with Poisoning Attempt on Lula - Brazil's Largest Democracy Left in America's - 10,000 Colorado Grocery Workers Win Deal Folks,  Greetings from the Burgh, where Payday is fundraising in hopes of getting a foundation to donate.  Donate to help Payday continue to track “Days Without Immigrants” strikes. Bolsonaro Charg...

Bolsonaro charged in poisoning attempt on Lula

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Vatican's Caritas outraged at 'reckless' USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty Caritas warned that millions of people will die as a result of the U.S. decision to stop USAID funding, and hundreds of millions more will be condemned to “dehumanizing poverty.”

Vatican’s Caritas outraged at ‘reckless’ USAID cuts, says millions will die, others left in poverty
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Immigrants were not welcomed in the South at all.

This chart also explains why pizza absolutely sucks in the South

I support Palestinian liberation full stop and have for 35 years. That said anyone who thought Trump would be better or no worse for Palestinians is a fool. They should be called as much. Often.

Sorry but not listening to people who say we can't judge voters who voted for Trump or stayed home bc of Gaza. They judged us and accused us of complicity in genocide for voting for Harris, so yeah, we get to judge them too for what they helped empower. That's how things work. Welcome to reality.

The US Conference of Catholic bishops, as well as individual bishops, priests and deacons, sisters and brothers, and lay men and women from around the world (including myself for two years in East Africa), help migrants and refugees not because the migrants and refugees are Catholics...

The left’s best defense against Trump? Ditching limousine liberalism | Dustin Guastella An effective fight against the president-elect requires a struggle that takes the frustrations of working-class voters seriously

My regular reminder that Dems won among "working class" voters (and this notion Trump championed working class is, ah, baffling). Oh, Dems won working class voters OF COLOR, It's the white voters who went R, as they have since LBJ signed '65 Voting Rts Act. . .

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