Like most professors, I have a lot of colleagues from outside the United States. The talk about Trump putting a $100K fee on H-1B visas has focused on tech, but an enormous part of the impact is on universities, who are not going to be...
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Another day, another story about red state voters shooting themselves in their economic face : As House Agriculture Chair G.T. Thompson prepares to introduce legislation aimed at easing the farm labor crisis,.
What's saving homes or human lives from wildfire when you target brown people for ethnic cleansing? For nearly two months, the firefighters battling a blaze among the evergreen forests of.
I hate Sean O'Brien more than any labor leader in my lifetime. Among other things, a Teamster reported to me that O'Brien filled the Teamsters Women's Convention this week with so many right-wing speakers that about 2/3 of the convention walked out on him. And...
In my new book, Organizing America, one point I make is that everyone is flawed and we have to work with what we have. One chapter is on Daniel Berrigan,.
As the excellent historian Douglas Sackman points out, Trumpism has trouble wrapping its head around farmworkers. Trumpists are defining rural America as a White Homeland through all sorts of messaging,.
Other than just the fact that these people are scumbags for their job generally, the more you learn about ICE raids, the more you should realize that once all the immigrants are "eliminated," they will turn their attention to other Americans. You think that if...
This is the grave of David Reed. Born in 1880 in Pittsburgh, Reed grew up well off. His father was a federal judge. He went to the fanciest schools Pittsburgh.
As part of our world where white people have turned against immigrants because they are racist pieces of shit, it's worth looking at some of the history of this issue,.
Immigration is the purview of the federal government. That's bad enough right now, but right wing states are embracing taking over much of this with ideas of punishment and torture beyond that the feds can do, though Stephen Miller is salivating. See Florida, always the...
Part of the reason the U.S. has such a vital economy most of the time is that we have allowed in immigrants. Here's the thing about immigration--everything thing about it.
Colorado unions are getting a bit of revenge against their unionbusting "Democratic" governor, joining a lawsuit against Jared Polis for yet another horrible action by him. The union representing more.