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LA’s Political Firestorm ― Former Fire Chief, Mayor Bass, and a Bold Councilman
The former Chief went on a media tour. CNN, The CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell. Newspaper, radio, and lots of other media hits where she... well…trashed her boss Karen Bass.
Thom Hartmann
Greg Palast
David Bacon
Trump’s Executive Orders — The Return of Cold War Repression
Trump's border czar Tom Homan, who headed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in the last Trump administration, announced at his new appointment that mass immigration raids will begin again. They will now include schools and churches, while earlier priorities directing enforcement to concentrate on "criminals" rather than families have been ended.
The Evolving Strategy for Defending Immigrant Workers
If employers can get replacement workers at low wages, they have no loyalty to the workers they now have. But it does give some leverage to undocumented workers to protest against raids, firings and other forms of enforcement, where employers remain dependent on them. That can be a crucial protection. In addition, if unions and workers living here help the contract workers on H-2A, H-2B and H-1B visas to protest the abuse in these programs, that can be additional protection for all workers.
The Life of the Party, Bring American Communists Out of the Shadows — and Closets
Published in Jacobin, Aug.15
https://jacobin.com/2024/08/communists-san-francisco-lgbt-race
https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-life-of-party.html
In the 20th century, American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red Menace, an enemy within. In reality, they were...
Life After Mother
Life After Mother, Five to Ten Years
Lyn Jensen - 0
About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that led to her death two years later and, once again, I was the only close relative to shoulder the burdens that accompanied the end of her life.