WSWS (2023-09-12). Unifor maintains information blackout as strike deadlines approach for Canadian and US autoworkers. wsws.org The union bureaucracy is providing workers with as little information as possible in the hopes of tamping down militant demands for a significant increase in wages and benefits amid surging inflation across Canada, the elimination of multi-tier employment, and the preservation of jobs in the transition to the manufacture of EVs.

Meghan Krausch, Truthout. (2023-09-12). Grassroots Organizing In Red States Is At The Heart Of Abolitionist Struggle. popularresistance.org In Republican-controlled regions across the country, people are engaged in abolitionist organizing: Even though conditions vary, people are organizing for freedom virtually everywhere. This is nothing new. The South, for example, has been a site for abolitionist organizing for centuries, and it continues to be one, despite the attacks on long-settled civil rights being organized by Republican supermajorities in statehouses. | Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is the first Black woman to codirect the Highlander Research and Education Center, a century-old nexus for abolitionist and labor organizing in Tennessee and beyond…

Matt Scott, Nolan Huber-Rhoades, Lev Omelchenko, Atlanta Community Press Collective. (2023-09-09). Construction Work Stopped Briefly As Cop City Protesters Enter Site. popularresistance.org Thursday morning a group of Cop City activists invoked a "people's stop work order" and chained themselves to equipment at the construction site for the proposed Atlanta Safety Public Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City. | "This is a war happening against protesters," Ayeola Omolara Kaplan, one of the five activists arrested, said via written statement. "If we don't stand up for our right to protest now, standing up in the future will be vain. Cop City is in the process of being built, and this can only continue if we allow it." | Kaplan, a self-described Atlanta based revolutionary artist, was joine…

WSWS (2023-09-08). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org India: 6,000 Rajasthan ambulance workers strike for better pay and rights; Bangladeshi police arrest protesting railway workers; Australia: EDI Rail maintenance workers strike for improved pay offer; New Zealand Warehouse retail workers walk out.

Matt Scott, Nolan Huber-Rhoades, Lev Omelchenko, Atlanta Community Press Collective. (2023-09-09). Construction Work Stopped Briefly As Cop City Protesters Enter Site. popularresistance.org Thursday morning a group of Cop City activists invoked a "people's stop work order" and chained themselves to equipment at the construction site for the proposed Atlanta Safety Public Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City. | "This is a war happening against protesters," Ayeola Omolara Kaplan, one of the five activists arrested, said via written statement. "If we don't stand up for our right to protest now, standing up in the future will be vain. Cop City is in the process of being built, and this can only continue if we allow it." | Kaplan, a self-described Atlanta based revolutionary artist, was joine…