New York
Woolworth’s Sit-Down Strike: When women shut down the world’s biggest retailer
March 5, 2024From the archives: Learning from the UAW’s Flint Sit-Down Strike, young women workers set an example for how to organize and win in the low-wage retail sector in 1937.
Read moreSuozzi win on Long Island shrinks GOP margin
February 15, 2024His election tops a long string of races in the suburbs where voters are rejecting the MAGA Republicans.
Read moreRemembering and reviewing pioneering gay literary editor Michael Denneny
January 18, 2024Sadly, this book review is also an obituary and a memoir.
Read moreQueens Congresswoman Grace Meng ignores ceasefire calls, but local coalition refuses to quit
January 18, 2024Meng still won’t budge on the Gaza issue, and she keeps cashing checks from AIPAC.
Read moreArt is labor, so why aren’t musicians and other artists viewed as workers?
December 21, 2023In the 1930s, artists came to think of themselves as cultural workers, and their labor activism exploded.
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