Alabama
Alabama right wing scapegoats LGBTQ people as crisis escalates
May 4, 2021New legislation joins anti-trans efforts across several states, including Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas.
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Retail Workers Union loses in Amazon Bessemer vote count
April 9, 2021Union notes that the giant company broke countless labor laws during a vicious anti-union campaign and that it will challenge the final results.
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Rev. Barber to Alabama union backers: ‘Bessemer is the new Selma’
March 24, 2021Civil rights leader brings the Poor People’s Campaign to a mass rally for unionizing 5,805 workers at Amazon’s giant shipping warehouse.
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Montgomery, Alabama has first Black mayor in its two-century history
October 11, 2019A historic election victory in Alabama this week shows that the “worst of times” in American politics can, if the people rise up, also become the “best of times.”
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Saga of 1930s Alabama Communists has lessons for today
August 26, 2019Activists today need to understand that they are building on a long and powerful heritage of working-class and anti-racist organization and struggle in this country.
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