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The Best of the Week’s News:

• Rat traps and claptrap: How right wing groups are astroturfing a moral panic over Critical Race Theory (NBC)
   
• Amazon tracks every minute of every worker’s day, but Amazon HR is chaos. (NYT)
   
• The New Yorker Union reaches a deal with Condé Nast, averting a strike. (NYT)
   
• The evidence-free rehabilitation of “lab leak theories” of COVD. (LA Times)
   
• Rights not rites: A toxic work environment shouldn’t be a rite of passage
   
• Canadian Hillman-winners Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier of APTN win the prestigious Michener Award. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Amazon workers are more likely to get hurt on the job. (WaPo) 
   
• Survivors call for action, but a lack of records stalls efforts to identify the Indigenous children found in 215 unmarked graves at a former Canadian residential school. (CBC)
   
• A whistleblower warned that residential schools were death traps in 1922, but the Canadian government ignored him, so he became an investigative journalist, and the public ignored him, too. (Tyee) 
   
• Trump let meatpackers unsafely accelerate their lines during COVID, now Biden is telling them to slow down. (HuffPo)
   
• More twists in the Sidney-winning investigation into Florida’s only lead smelter. (TB Times)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• New York AG Tish James announced that her office is joining a criminal probe into the Trump Organization, a rare cooperation between the AG and DA Cy Vance. (CNN, NPR)
   
• The trustees of UNC took the extraordinary step of refusing tenure to distinguished journalist and Hillman Prize-winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, a move a board member attributed to “politics.” (NC Policy Watch)  
   
• Amazon tells workers to chill out from the crushing pace and constant surveillance with the AmaZen meditation program. (Vice)
   
• A $9/hr job as a port-a-potty attendant pulled Dawn Woudenberg out of homelessness and helped her save lives from ODs. (WaPo)
   
• The Supreme Court is gearing up to kill Roe v. Wade. (Rewire.news)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• The Philly Inquirer is launching a new database of cases in which Philly homicide detectives allegedly fabricated evidence. (Philly Inquirer)
   
• Sports unions unite to back the PRO Act. (The Nation)
   
• Worker-owned cooperatives and the future of Rust Belt labor (Belt Mag. Hillman Fnd)
   
• These prisoners are actively dying, but states are rushing to execute them. (The Marshall Project) 
   
• This local news team won’t let its audience forget which legislators backed Trump’s coup  (WashPost)

Sidney’s Picks:

• John Sweeney and workers’ centers. (American Prospect)
   
• Hillman judge Jelani Cobb was in Minneapolis for the murder verdict against Derek Chauvin. (New Yorker)
   
• Exercise your right to film the cops…safely. (WaPo)
   
• The Penn Museum hoarded the bones of children killed in the MOVE bombing, and then lost them. (BillyPenn)
   
• The Hillman Prizes for Journalism presentation will stream online on Tuesday, May 4th at 7pm ET with host Danny Glover. Join us!