October 23, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Lost Kids and Eugene Scalia
October 16, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Death Squads & Digital Piecework
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October 9, 2020
Sidney's Picks: The Plot to Kidnap a Governor & Trump's Incitement of Terrorists
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October 2, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Standing Up for Black Women and Danger at Amazon
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September 25, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Unions, Hollywood, and the Supreme Court
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September 18, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Ice Hysterectomies, USPS Voter Suppression, and Vaccine Fears
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September 11, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Wildfires, Lies, and Protests
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September 4, 2020
Sidney's Picks: COVID Childcare Crisis
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Photo by Arlene Mejorando, courtesty of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project/Slate.
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August 28, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Striking Hoppers, Missing Immigrants
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Trash bags awaiting pickup on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, where sanitation workers known as hoppers are striking for a living wage. For illustration only. By Tony Webster, Creative Commons.
- The garbage workers of New Orleans continue their strike because Black lives matter. (Discourse Blog)
- The Trump administration had a naturalization ceremony at the RNC, but they disenfranchised up to 300,000 people by delaying their ceremonies until after the election. (WaPo)
- Unionized professional athletes are striking to protest police brutality and teaching a lesson about the power of labor. (Nation)
- Armed right-wing extremists stormed the Idaho state legislature, pushing past police and shattering a glass door to pack the gallery. (NPR)
- Detroit’s embattled nursing home workers delay their strike, despite the urgent needs of their membership. (Dissent)
August 21, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Baby Chicks Smother as USPS Cuts Cause Backlog
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Baby chicks smother and rot in their packages as Trump’s cuts plunge a major USPS sorting facility into chaos and squalor. (LA Times)
- Some Friends: Posh Brooklyn Friends day school claims unions are against their “Quaker values.” (In These Times)
- Meatpacking plants were warned for years to get ready for a pandemic, now they say they couldn’t have known. (ProPublica)
- Kids are being stashed in hotels in a shadow immigration system. (WHYY)
- Millions struggle to survive without their $600/wk pandemic UI supplement. (Guardian)
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