Lois Weiner

Oct 6, 2024 | znetwork.org | Lois Weiner

From his grave, Albert Shanker, or more accurately, the machine he built, controls the largest teachers union in the world, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which represents about 200,000 New York City teachers, and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), with over 600,000 members, the largest state teachers union affiliate in the country.

Oct 5, 2024 | newpol.org | Lois Weiner

From his grave, Albert Shanker, or more accurately, the machine he built, controls the largest teachers union in the world, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which represents about 200,000 New York City teachers, and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), with over 600,000 members, the largest state teachers union affiliate in the country.

Aug 5, 2024 | newpol.org | Lois Weiner

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Sep 4, 2023 | truthout.org | Aaron Leonard |Anton Woronczuk |Michael Yates |Lois Weiner

The current focus of the U.S.’s never-ending culture war comes in the form of the song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” by Oliver Anthony, aka Christopher Anthony Lunsford, a former factory worker, who has been open about his battles with alcoholism and depression. Riding a wave of viral attention, “Rich Men” has now spent two weeks at the number 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts.

Apr 3, 2023 | truthout.org | Sharon Zhang |Lois Weiner |Matthew Rozsa |Amy Goodman

A new report by Stanford University researchers finds that just training the model behind the popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT released emissions equivalent to those of 9 cars over the course of their lifetimes, adding another layer of scrutiny regarding the future of humanity on Earth to technocrats’ promised AI revolution.