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Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers

In addition, the new regulation allows growers to charge H-2A workers for housing, which they previously had to provide for…

2 weeks ago

Harbor Area ICE Watch

Today, a federal force again disappearing our neighbors, using our community as its base of operations. This column will track…

2 weeks ago

No Kings… And No Courtiers, Either: What’s Next In The Fight For Democracy

In a normally-functioning democracy, he would be out of office by the time you read this. But we are not…

2 weeks ago

Victims Without Victimizers

It is time to stop trying to make the market do good. It is time to stop trying to fuse…

2 weeks ago

Purdue Student Paper Shows Solidarity With Rival

  After the Indiana University Media School fired its director of student media and banned print publication of a homecoming…

2 weeks ago

As Trump Declares War On Shadowy Leftist Terrorists, Corporate Media Gives Him Cover

But Trump’s wildly dishonest declaration of political war has gotten cover from corporate media in multiple ways. It begins with…

4 weeks ago

County Assess LA Wildfire Impacts And Recovery Prospects

The data-intensive approach could not convey the enormous human cost involved, much less the stark underlying racial disparities involved. But…

4 weeks ago

photos from the edge 20 Farmworkers and Deportees – Survival is Resistance

People arriving to work in U.S. fields come from communities that speak languages that long predate European colonization, and their…

4 weeks ago

Trump Declares Antifa (Which Is Not An Organization) A “Domestic Terrorist Organization” (Which Isn’t A Thing In Federal Law)

  On Sept. 21, Trump signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”  But antifa is not an…

1 month ago

The Hypocrisy of Kirk and the Far Right on Free Speech

The point is, has the media followed up on the Epstein files lately? Has that headline been buried by his…

1 month ago