Bird Flu a Product of Industrial Food Production

Bird Flu a Product of Industrial Food Production

Since the beginning of 2022, more than 82 million chickens have been culled (killed) in the United States to avoid the further spread of the H5N1 bird flu. The virus is called a bird flu because that is the category of life in which it originates, but it has recently...
Vanderbilt Students Protest Suppression

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...
Nothing Sweet About Working in the Sugar Industry

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...
Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Petition for Union Election

Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Petition for Union Election

A “supermajority,” well over one half, of the 4,300 production and maintenance workers at the Volkswagen plant near Chattanooga, TN, submitted a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday, March 18. The workers want the NLRB to schedule a secret...