Vanderbilt Students Protest Suppression
Last Tuesday, March 26, police arrested four students and as many as twenty more were suspended on the campus of Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University after they occupied the university’s main hall for twenty-two hours. A local reporter was also arrested. Right-wing media outlets (see any recent coverage by Fox News) are mocking the protesters, painting the […]
AC Transit: The “Rapid” Displacement of Working Class Families
The “Rapid” Displacement of Working Class Families With the Tempo (BRT) up and running from downtown Oakland to San Leandro, one could take a ride and see the status of the neighborhood. East Oakland has long had a reputation for being “rough,” but it has also been home to many of us. But now with separate […]
Nothing Sweet About Working in the Sugar Industry
For centuries, the sugar industry and the slave labor system that produced the world’s sugar, shaped the global economy and condemned millions – from Brazil, the Caribbean islands, Louisiana and more – to short, brutal lives of labor. Now, a recent New York Times and Fuller Project investigation entitled “The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child […]
El desastre del puente de Baltimore no tenía por qué haber ocurrido
A la 1:28 de la madrugada del 26 de marzo, un enorme buque de carga, conocido como Dali, colisionó con el puente Francis Scott Key de Baltimore, lo que provocó en cuestión de segundos el derrumbe de la mayor parte de la estructura y la muerte de seis trabajadores de la construcción que estaban reparando […]