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Oct 16, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Steve Fraser
“We have eight months to save our republic,” so warned Elizabeth Cheney, noted renegade Republican. Noteworthy indeed! Cheney is the loyal daughter of perhaps the least likely vice president in American history to be singled out as a champion of democracy this side of Andrew Johnson (and that’s not being entirely fair to Johnson).
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
logosjournal.com | Steve Fraser
“We have eight months to save our Republic,” so warned Elizabeth Cheney, noted renegade Republican. Noteworthy indeed! Chaney is the loyal daughter of perhaps the least likely vice president in American history to be singled out as a champion of democracy this side of Andrew Johnson (and that’s not being entirely fair to Johnson).
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
portside.org | Steve Fraser
Who’s Afraid of Democracy? Published October 8, 2024 “We have eight months to save our Republic,” so warned Elizabeth Cheney, noted renegade Republican. Noteworthy indeed! Chaney is the loyal daughter of perhaps the least likely vice president in American history to be singled out as a champion of democracy this side of Andrew Johnson (and that’s not being entirely fair to Johnson).
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Steve Fraser
“Inequality is the great moral issue of our time,” proclaimed Bernie Sanders, the undisputed champion of left-wing politics in the United States.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
jacobinlat.com | Steve Fraser
Judy Wright, una veterana trabajadora de la industria automovilística que lleva treinta años en la planta de Ford en River Rouge y es miembro del Local 660 del sindicato United Auto Workers (UAW), estuvo en huelga en otoño de 2023. En un reportaje de PBS Newshour del 21 de septiembre, explicó por qué. «Todo lo que pide la UAW es literalmente lo que teníamos antes». Y tenía razón.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
tampabay.com | Jim Verhulst |Adam Serwer |Steve Fraser |Krzysztof Tyszka-Drozdowski
We live in a partisan age, and our news habits can reinforce our own perspectives. Consider this an effort to broaden our collective outlook with essays beyond the range of our typical selections. FROM THE LEFTFrom “How Joe Biden Could Address the Age Issue,” by Dhruv Khullar in The New Yorker at tinyurl.com/z6uszest. The context, from the author: In the battle to assuage anxieties about his fitness for office, the country’s oldest-ever sitting president has a powerful weapon at his disposal.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Steve Fraser
Judy Wraight, a thirty-year veteran autoworker who worked at Ford’s River Rouge plant as a member of Local 600 of the United Auto Workers (UAW), was walking the picket lines in the fall of 2023. In a PBS Newshour report on September 21, she explained why. “Everything the UAW is asking for is literally what we had before.”She was right. Most of what the union fought for and won had been lost in one way or another over the previous forty years.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
actionnetwork.org | Steve Fraser
Red City: Garment Workers, Socialists, and Village Radicals—S2Facilitator: Historian and writer Steve FraserSummary:The session will cover: The Socialist Party in New York city and stateThe Needle Trades UprisingGreenwich Village Radicals1919 and the Wall Street bombing of 1920Harlem RenaissanceReadings: 1. "The Needle Trades and the Uprising of Women Workers" — Annalise Orlick2.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Phillip Smith |Catherine Nelson |Steve Fraser |Joshua Freeman
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In a 2019 issue of The Reflector, a prison newspaper, Catherine Nelson shared a common grievance among the incarcerated. “The only problem I have with my job is the pay hasn’t increased in over two decades,” wrote Nelson. At the time, she worked in a prison factory where she was forced to save two weeks’ pay “to buy one 18-pack of feminine hygiene pads,” a basic necessity.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Steve Fraser |Benjamin Fong
The following is an interview conducted for Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, a Jacobin podcast series produced in collaboration with the Center for Work and Democracy. Subscribe to Jacobin Radio to listen to the series (and don’t forget to rate us five stars so we can reach more people).INTERVIEW BYBENJAMIN Y.
