August 2020 Volume 44, Issue 08

August 2020

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Labor

The Thing About Police Unions Adeshina Emmanuel

The Central Issue Is Police Repression, Not Police Unions Bill Fletcher, Jr.

I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Defund the Police? Why Not? Joel Bleifuss

The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Salim Muwakkil

Feature

The Democratic Platform Fight Shows It’s Still Obama’s Party Branko Marcetic

“We Are On the Cusp of Something Great”: A Black Liberation Organizer on Next Steps for the Movement Nikita Mitchell

Dispatch

Protesting Native Deaths by Police Elena Carter

The Grassroots Efforts to Save the Lives of Immigrants Who Can’t Get Covid-19 Testing From the State Maurizio Guerrero

Culture

Your White Neighbor’s “Black Lives Matter” Yard Sign Is Not Enough Shayla Lawson

Departments

11 Statistics That Show Racism Is Entrenched in Our Healthcare System Dayton Martindale

The Democratic Platform Fight Shows It’s Still Obama’s Party

Bernie Sanders supporters have pushed for progressive priorities in the platform, but the Barack Obama wing of the Democratic establishment is still in the driver’s seat.

Branko Marcetic

“We Are On the Cusp of Something Great”: A Black Liberation Organizer on Next Steps for the Movement

An interview with Nikita Mitchell

Nikita Mitchell

Defund the Police? Why Not?

We should not confuse public safety with investments in systems of punishment.

Protesting Native Deaths by Police

Amid protests against police violence nationwide, a march was held in remembrance of a Native man who died in police custody while suffering a mental health crisis.

11 Statistics That Show Racism Is Entrenched in Our Healthcare System

Covid-19 is disproportionately harming Black Americans. This is not an exception, but the rule.

Dayton Martindale

The Grassroots Efforts to Save the Lives of Immigrants Who Can’t Get Covid-19 Testing From the State

Local groups are stepping in to fill a lethal void.

Maurizio Guerrero

Your White Neighbor’s “Black Lives Matter” Yard Sign Is Not Enough

Being anti-racist means making places safe for Black people to inhabit. Without that, BLM yard signs are just performative allyship.

The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Samuel Williams. Tyisha Miller. Amadou Diallo. Eric Garner. I've reported their names for decades. This time feels different.

The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

The Central Issue Is Police Repression, Not Police Unions

Before rushing to expel police unions, labor needs a larger reckoning with law enforcement's role in a capitalist-colonialist state.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions

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