I absolutely wish Ed Markey had not run for another term in the Senate. He's great, but he's 80, Massachusetts has a deep bench, and others can do this job. More to the point, Ayanna Pressley was ready to go. But Markey's ego got in...
Massachusetts
On March 14, 1882, textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts walked off the job. Thirty years later, a much more famous textile strike would take place in that town. That one.
The tipped minimum wage is one of those weird parts of the American economy that almost any progressive policy person hates. It exploits workers, it is deeply unfair within restaurants,.
Teachers and students march as they protest against cuts to US education funding during the 'March for Public Education' rally in Los Angeles, California on December 15, 2018. (Photo by Mark RALSTON / AFP) (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) Many of the teachers...
On September 7, 1933, cranberry workers on Cape Cod went on strike to protest their terrible wages and working conditions. Threatening the ability of Americans to have some taste to.
On April 16, 1836, Massachusetts passed the nation's first law limiting child labor. It required that children under the age of 15 working in factories be given three months off.
Collection box for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, around 1850
Massachusetts has done some amazing things of late, with its recent vote to tax the hell out of the rich being a real progressive point. Meanwhile, voters there also elected.
Teamsters, Working Families United, National TPS Alliance, LA County Federation of Labor, CARECEN, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Clergy and Laity United.
There's a way older people talk about young activists that leaves them with no real choices to not get criticized. Its' something that we see in comment threads here frequently. If they take to the streets and protest without the kind of concrete goals that...
If we are going to take renewable energy seriously, it is going to require massive offshore wind turbine facilities. There's just no other way around it. But that cuts against.
As I've said so many times in the last year, nothing highlights the failures of systems that increase inequality like a natural disaster. Throughout the entire pandemic, we've seen these.