As Grass-Roots Labor Activism Rises, Will Unions Take Advantage? NYTimes
American Airlines booted allergic black man from plane so dog could fly first class: lawsuit AlterNet
The U.S. Footprint in Bolivia’s Incipient Colour Revolution Internationalist 360°
White House Plans Expansion of CIA Presence in Afghanistan as Troops Withdraw, Says Report Daily Beast
Behind Islamophobia Is A Global Movement Of Anti-Semites LobeLog
US Sanctions Are Designed to Kill Jacobin
A New Film Blows the Whistle on War The Progressive
“Official Secrets” indicts Blair, Bush, and other mass murderers. The film is about Martin Bright, a reporter with The Observer (played by Matt Smith), and Katharine Gun, a translator for the British government (played by Keira Knightley). Gun is responsible for what Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg called “the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen. No one else – including myself – has ever done what Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.”
For Those Who Don’t Identify as Male or Female, Growing Acceptance—and Accommodation WSJ
More states, firms join shift toward recognizing gender-nonconforming Americans
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