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September 2018
In this issue
The Occupation Free DC campaign aims to end MPD program with Israeli forces
Chip Gibbons
Occupation Free DC is part of a nationwide campaign led by Jewish Voice for Peace that seeks to get US law enforcement to end its “deadly exchange” with Israeli police and military.
Why we demand the abolition of ICE
Kaiser F.
We in the DSA recognize that no one is free or safe while this system of detention, deportation, fear, and intimidation, continues.
Forebears of Today’s Labor Movement: Progress, Dilemmas and Setbacks
Kurt Stand
Labor militance and organization in the post-Civil War era enabled workers to make meaningful gains against corporate power. But the failure to organically connect those strands of struggle together prevented the working-class from unifying.
Addressing climate change needs a short-term plan and a global one
Daniel Adkins
To meet the danger of climate change, developed nations will need to organize a new global Marshall Plan with representatives from developing countries.
DC just saved the country millions of dollars - now, a favor
Bill Mosley
DC has been playing an increasingly assertive role in facing down the hostile occupier sitting in the White House. Now we need to ask for a favor from those outside the District.
Amending the Will of the People: I-77 Versus the “Tipped Wage Workers Amendment”
Adam Stromme
Employer lobbying groups continue to masquerade under the guise of defending worker’s rights.
Project Veritas: Next Steps
A Discrete Socialist
It will take all of us working together to build a strong and sustainable information security culture.
Why is it so easy to say the media is the enemy?
Woody Woodruff
We may take a long look at our information habits and practices and realize that we may be just as impervious to new, mind-changing information as those self-identified “deplorables.”
Larry Hogan's Racist Transportation Scheme - playing to his base
Woody Woodruff
In Places Journal, Alex MacGillis writes about the legacy of highway-fueled white flight in Baltimore, and the sheer resentment suburban residents feel toward transit serving the city (‘loot train’).
Trump’s EPA Proposes Changes That Would Gut U.S. Efforts to Slow Global Warming
Andy Feeney
What the Trump administration is proposing would leave the US with weaker fuel efficiency standards compared to those of the EU, Japan, China, India and even Saudi Arabia, and this could cut into Detroit’s future overseas sales.