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Vol. 085 Issue 006 (December 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Editor's Note
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FAMILY AFFAIRS
In mid-October, I flew to Oakland, California, to meet my grandson, Felix Kyle Lueders-Morrison. He was born on October 6 at a hospital in Berkeley, to my son Jesse and...
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Comment
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LUEDERS, BILL
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THE PARTY OF FRAUD
O n November 16, 2020, Andrew Kloster, then a lawyer for the Trump Administration, filed an affidavit calling into question the integrity of Wisconsin’s presidential election...
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On the Line
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STANDING UP AND WALKING OUT
The year 2021 was marked by an ongoing pandemic, an election, and a rightwing insurrection. 2021 will also be remembered as a moment when workers collectively stood up...
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No Comment
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Killing Them Softly with His Lies U.S. counties where Donald Trump garnered at least 70 percent of the vote in November 2020 had a COVID-19 death rate of forty-seven out of every 100,000 people, a...
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Letters
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Civil Rights and Wrongs Re: “Creating a Powerful, Broad-Based Moral Movement” (October/November issue): Days after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, which...
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Blast from the Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST The recent release of the Pandora Papers has brought to light in striking detail what some have known all along: The super rich have gotten good at hiding their wealth and...
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No More Middle-of-the-Road
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Conniff, Ruth
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NO MORE MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD
R epublican victories in statewide elections on November 2, especially Glenn Youngkin’s win over Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gover nor’s race, prompted a...
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SSI’s Cruel and Oppressive Rules
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Ervin, Mike
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SSI’S CRUEL AND OPPRESSIVE RULES
T here are about eight million people in the United States who aren’t allowed to have a monthly income higher than $794. If their income goes above that amount,...
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A Transformative Time for Workers
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Jaffe, Sarah
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A TRANSFORMATIVE TIME FOR WORKERS
T he nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, have been on strike for eight months. On March 8, they walked out after they were unable to...
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The GOP’s Pro-COVID-19 Agenda
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THE GOP’S PRO-COVID-19 AGENDA Republican lawmakers in at least twenty-six states, driven by manufactured outrage over mask mandates, vaccination requirements, and shutdowns, have passed laws to...
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Fearing Your Neighbors
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Kuhlenbeck, Mike
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Fearing Your Neighbors
How law enforcement and Big Tech exploit neighborhood watch technology to create dystopian, digitally gated communities. BY MIKE KUHLENBECK W hen a brush .re ravaged...
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‘There Was No Other Option’
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Rossi, Marcello
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‘There Was No Other Option’
A Washington State Indian nation is relocating an entire community to escape the impacts of climate change. BY MARCELLO ROSSI
Standing near his front yard,...
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A Way of Life in Danger
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Eisen, Marc
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Passion comes quick when organic farmers talk soil. Their commitment to land stewardship— nurturing and improving the soil’s life-giving qualities—is a point of immense pride. Take Glenn...
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Easing the Burden of Student Loans
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Johnson, Sharon
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Easing the Burden
of Student Loans
With more than forty-three million Americans carrying $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, states are finding new ways to help. BY SHARON JOHNSON Student...
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The Lone Wolf in the Henhouse
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Christophi, Helen
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early 1990s. They churned out dozens of violent skinhead anthems before California. Haughton became a Philadelphia police of.cer in 1995. Helen Christophi is a freelance journalist based...
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My Neighbors, the White Nationalists
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Cohen, Jamie Beth
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My Neighbors, the White Nationalists The text from my friend, a fellow local social justice activist, came through on a Saturday afternoon. I was in the basement of my townhouse in Lancaster...
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Q: What More Can Joe Biden Do to Help Working People?
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LANE WINDHAM Associate director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University He can listen. Working people are fed up after forty years of stagnant...
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Guatemala’s Failed Promise
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Abbott, Jeff
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T here is growing desperation across communities in Guatemala. Twenty-.ve years after the end of the country’s thirty-six-year-long civil war, the lack of hope—resulting from an economic crisis...
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Acts of Rebel Sanity
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Lappé, Frances Moore
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Acts of Rebel Sanity Finding ways to navigate the challenges of living on a small planet. BY FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ I am a child of the sixties, fed by its energy and hope.
In 1962, in its...
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Koch’s Campus Free Speech Ploy
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Wilson, Ralph; Kamola, Isaac
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Koch’s Campus Free Speech Ploy
BY RALPH WILSON AND ISAAC KAMOLA W hen people raise concerns that college campuses are hostile to conservative and libertarian perspectives, they often point...
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‘We Should Be Expecting a Lot More of Democracy’
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Stockwell, Norman
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‘We Should Be Expectinga Lot More of Democracy’ An interview with U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL J amie Raskin represents Maryland’s 8th Congressional District in the...
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Favorite Books
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Favorite Books of
2021 Ruth Conniff Refugee High: Coming of Age in America (The New Press), by Elly Fishman, tells the story of four teenagers from four different countries—Iraq, the...
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What’s Wrong with Facebook
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Farsad, Negin
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WHAT’S WRONG WITH FACEBOOK
F acebook is in the “Oh, sweetie” phase of its corporate timeline. That’s the phase that comes right after “extremist hotspot” and right before “certain implosion.”...
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Baseball Will Not Push Us Out
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Zirin, Dave
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BASEBALL WILL NOT PUSH US OUT
I will always remember 2021 as the year I fell back in love with baseball. Growing up in the 1980s, I lived for the New York Mets. I watched every game I...
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Self-Portrait with Mixed-up Sports References and Dear Mothership
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Wicker, Marcus
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Self-Portrait with Mixed-up Sports References I’m so good at missing calls that I’m perfect this year. —EarthGang I’m no Dr. James Naismith, but you could say I stay checking myself. Like a...
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No Vote, No Work!
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Hightower, Jim
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NO VOTE, NO WORK!
T he corporate hierarchy has long tried to diminish labor activism in the United States by insisting that strikes and other workplace agitations have never had broad support or...
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