Wildfire Smog Is Deadly
But LA’s Covid Mask Organizers Have It Covered Angelenos are stepping in to make sure their communities can breathe. By Julia Métraux Los Angeles has been hit with its worst-ever wildfires, which continue to blaze,…
Oligarch Farmers and the Fires in Los Angeles
Commentary by Yasha Levine Lynda and Stewart Resnick—the oligarch pistachio farmers of Beverly Hills—are currently going viral. Influencers are out making tiktoks, tweets, and reels. They’re outraged at finding out that one Los Angeles billionaire…
The Common Ground Between Labor and Climate Justice
Commentary by Pradnya Garud A fault line runs between labor and environmental movements, or so we’re told. Labor unions have been criticized for focusing on jobs without considering environmental consequences, with some unions supporting controversial…
Swedish Dockworkers Vote To Block Military Shipments For Israel
By Katy Fox-Hodess and Rafeef Ziadah In a resounding display of international solidarity, members of the Swedish Dockworkers Union SDU voted by 68 percent in December to block the handling of military shipments to and…
Elbit Out Of South Carolina Exposes Government Complicity In Genocide
By Elbit Out Of South Carolina LADSON, SC—On January 2, North Charleston Police arrested a local artist participating in a picket of Elbit Systems at their facility in Ladson. The protester is part of the…
McCarthyist ‘Nonprofit Killer’ Bill
The Palestine solidarity movement is the new Communist Party By Rachel Ida Buff In 1954, Abner Green, executive secretary of the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), was sentenced by a New…
Asheville Journalists Sue Over Illegal Arrests
By Kevin Gosztola A news co-op in North Carolina and two journalists convicted of trespassing offenses filed a federal lawsuit alleging that their constitutional rights were violated by Asheville Police Department officers. In December 2021,…
Why More And More Journalists Are
Launching Worker-Owned Outlets By Angela Fu When staff at the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal decided to unionize in March, they were almost immediately hit with layoffs. The paper’s parent company, a…
Workers Are Giving Up on the Democrats
Commentary by Les Leopold I just had a chat with an ATT office manager, a young Black man who is very attentive to his customers. After he learned that I worked with labor unions, he…
Local Green Politics in California
An Interview with Gayle McLaughlin By Steve Early for Green Social Thought Former Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin has one of the best municipal election success rates of any left-wing “elected” in California—as in five city…