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DepartmentsPolitics

I Love You, Madame Librarian

Kurt Vonnegut expresses admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.

In These Times Editors

LaborPalestine

The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza

How one UAW local pulled off a mass strike in solidarity with the Gaza protest encampments, and in opposition to the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

A Staggering Number of Minnesotans Took to the Streets Friday to Demand ICE Leave. The Next Day, ICE Responded by Killing Another Resident.

Saturday morning marked the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. “How many more Americans need to die for this operation to end?” said Mayor Jacob Frey.

Thomas Birmingham and Ari Bloomekatz

LaborViewpoint

"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"

Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week.

Margaret Vail Palmquist

Labor

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

Sarah Lazare

LaborInterview

“No Work. No Spending": Minnesota Workers Strike Today to Protest ICE

A critical conversation with Minnesota union leaders about a massive general strike that begins on Friday, January 23.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborDispatch

How One Minnesota Union Is Helping Members Survive the Federal Siege

UNITE HERE Local 17 is one of many unions, community organizations and faith groups calling for a work stoppage tomorrow, showing a key way Minnesotans are organizing against ICE.

Sarah Lazare

ViewpointCulture

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way

Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

Mariame Kaba

LaborViewpoint

Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

At first glance it sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think.

Alex Han