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GmacCash | On Strike (UAW)

September 15, 2023

Rapper Gmac Cash is an artist who has not only proven he can rap, but he makes you laugh while doing it.

Writers' Guild of America Strike Song

September 15, 2023

Writers Guild of America on strike. What does that mean? Listen to learn more!

Victor Jara | Manifiesto (with English Subtitles)

September 15, 2023

The last song Victor Jara ever wrote. The great Chilean singer/songwriter Jara was killed in the Santiago Stadium 40 years ago, on Sept. 15, 1973.

Solidarity Forever With the United Auto Workers

September 15, 2023

Rockin' Solidarity arranged and performed by Dave Welsh (vocals) featuring Reed Fromer on piano. Freedom Song Network chorus.

September 15, 2023

Friday Nite Videos Special | 6/24/2023: Songs of Solidarity

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Rockin' Solidarity Forever. Victor Jara | Manifiesto. Writers' Guild of America Strike Song. GmacCash | On Strike (UAW). Lisa Simpson's Union Strike Folk Song | Dan Cribbs. Paul Robeson | "Joe Hill". Why Auto Workers Are Striking.

September 14, 2023

Wisconsin Democrats Push an Agenda To Restore Worker Rights

Erik Gunn Wisconsin Examiner

Proposals face uphill battle, but backers say they show what they stand for.

September 14, 2023

Tidbits – Sept. 14, 2023 – Reader Comments: March To End Fossil Fuels – THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike – What You Can Do; Abortion Rights; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons;

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Reader Comments: March to End Fossil Fuels - THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike - What You Can Do; Abortion Rights Attacks on All Workers; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons; more....

September 14, 2023

Taylor Swift Gave the Union Everything It Wants

Kevin Hurler Gizmodo

The singer-songwriter met the demands of striking SAG-AFTRA, including streaming residuals, to release The Eras Tour documentary.

September 14, 2023

‘Youth Against Dictatorship’: Meet Israel’s New Class of Conscientious Objectors

Oren Ziv +972 Magazine

Eight new draft refusers speak about the occupation, the anti-judicial reform protests, and conscientious objection as a tool of protest.

September 14, 2023

Our Supposedly Glorious Past Existed Only for Some

Esau McCaulley New York Times

Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast forward to the Red Summer, Jim Crow laws, “strange fruit” hanging from poplar trees?