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From Planet Fitness to Living in ‘The Kill Zone”
How Harbor Gateway South residents were left to fend for themselves — until Del Amo Action Committee pushed back
By Rick Thomas
I’ve driven down Torrance...
Thom Hartmann
Greg Palast
David Bacon
photos from the edge 27 – JESSE JACKSON, PRESENTE!
But I remember him best because he came out for workers again and again, long after he wasn't running for anything anymore. I'm sure it's the workers who remember him best, because the photographs show it.
The Power Imbalance at the Root of the H-2A Farmworker Visa Program
What the Trump Administration also ruled was that growers can now charge workers for the housing that formerly they had to provide for free. In California, growers are going to be allowed to charge $3 an hour to farmworkers for the housing. Taken together with the cut in wages, that would mean a wage rate for H-2A farmworkers in California of $13.50 an hour.
Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana
With photos and an interview with Laura Velasco
Dollars and Sense, November/December
https://www.dollarsandsense.org/poverty-and-deportees-on-the-streets-in-tijuana/
In the U.S. media, even in progressive media, we pay very little attention to...
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.