(2022-11-23). Beating of Black man in Georgia jail goes viral: Just the tip of the iceberg. workers.org As we go to print, three of the prison guards who beat Jarrett Hobbs have been arrested on charges of "Battery of an Inmate and Violating the Oath of Office" according to a Nov. 22 statement from the Camden County Sheriff's Office. The same three were also fired. The savage beating . . . |
(2022-11-22). Railway Strike Looms As Majority Rejects Tentative Agreement. popularresistance.org The four unions that have now rejected the tentative agreement are the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes (representing 19% of unionized workforce in negotiations), Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (6%), International Association of Boilermakers and Blacksmiths (1%) and SMART-TD, excluding yardmasters, (30%). | The eight unions that voted to ratify the tentative agreement (and the percentage of the total their members represent) are the American Train Dispatchers Association (1%), BLET (20%), Brotherhood Railway Carmen (7%), International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (5%), Internationa…
(2022-11-22). Black Woman Wins Massive $366 Million Racial Discrimination Payout Against FedEx. moguldom.com A Black woman received a $366 million dollar jury award after suing her former employer for racial discrimination and retaliation. Jennifer Harris of Fort Worth, Texas, won the judgment after suing FedEx, her employer of 12 years, whom she accused of terminating her unjustly after she reported a supervisor's hostile behavior towards her. Harris worked …
(2022-11-22). Ideas, Including Foolish Ones, Have Consequences. fpif.org Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? | Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of them try to rationalize their hates and fears into theories that, though detached from reality, literally provide the ammunition that enables their followers to wreak havoc, like the guy did who descended on a store frequented by Black people in Buffalo several months ago in order to kill as many African-Americans as possible. | Matthew Rose's A World After Liberalism (Yale University, 2021) brings together and critically analyzes the thoughts of people that most of us probably have not heard of but…
(2022-11-22). Democrat Karen Bass will quickly dash voter expectations after election as Los Angeles mayor. wsws.org After her victory in the Los Angeles mayoral election last week, the 69-year-old Bass, a decades-long fixture of the Democratic party both at the regional and national level, has been glorified as a "transformational" figure, merely because she is a black woman and regardless of her policies.