New from Shawn Fain:

“We are fully preparing to strike on May Day 2028.”

The UAW President is calling on unions everywhere to align their contract expiration dates for mass impact. Here, he explains why. inthesetimes.com/article/may-da…

Forget Pulitzers. A true honor for a reporter is when your style is so special you become an adjective, as in 'that's a Bob Pool story.' We said that for years at Los Angeles Times about stories that needed a creative eye and a big heart. Bob had both. latimes.com/obituaries/sto…

NEW: ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS HAVE STUDENT GAZA SOLIDARITY PROTESTS 🤯

We just set up the Refa’at Al Areer Library! Students are already gathering around it! Thank you Haymarket Books, faculty and community members for donations!

LOSS OF A LEGEND: Bob Pool, veteran L.A. Times newsman and observer of the human condition, dies at 79. I was lucky enough to be his editor for nearly a decade and I learned so much from him. The first -- respect your readers and their time latimes.com/obituaries/sto…

The University of Pennsylvania. #Refaat will continue to rise.

To reporters: don't ask about parallels to 1968-70. Get off your asses and talk to the people protesting on all sides, cultivate leakers among police/security/admin, find policy documents, follow the money, etc, etc, etc. Figure out what's happening NOW. Later, we can talk.

#Refaat on storytelling and his daughter Shayma, killed today by man Israeli airstrike in #Gaza

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The full Izzy Award ceremony is now available to watch on our YouTube channel!

This year's #IzzyAward honored In These Times, Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd), Sarah Conway (@sarahanneconway), Trina Reynolds-Tyler (@trinattrill), & Lynzy Billing
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read the whole 🧵 — if you look closely, it lays out more than a solid analysis of the moment: It's a roadmap

Think it will be bad if Trump wins? Spoiler alert: the playbook—Project 2025—that would be implemented if he gets elected is already here, and in play and in process. Great piece for In These Times by Gillian Kane w/edits by Kathryn Joyce. inthesetimes.com/article/projec…

Someone smashed in the window of Women & Children First, a beloved queer feminist bookstore in Chicago, bc they had up a Palestinian flag and a call for ceasefire.

Violent, oppressive, right-wing ideologies are deeply linked, and the only way to fight them is through clear-eyed solidarity.

Thank you to all who tuned in for another successful Izzy Award ceremony!

Special thanks to our speakers pictured below:
1. (((Lizzy Ratner))) speaking on behalf of Mohammed El-Kurd & The Nation
2. Sarah Conway
3. Trina Reynolds-Tyler
4. Alex Han, exec director of In These Times

The recognition keeps piling up, and deservedly so, for Andrei Popoviciu's stellar In These Times investigation on how the EU outsourced its border enforcement to African nations. Read it here: inthesetimes.com/article/europe…

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🚨BIG news:

Summer Lee, the first pro-ceasefire member of Congress facing a serious challenge this cycle, just WON her primary in a blowout victory tonight.

Billionaires and dark money just took their first L of the season.

Next up: Mobilize and defend Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D..

Watch our Executive Director Alex Han accept the 2024 Izzy Award that we were honored to win as an entire publication live now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

“If we’re going to revive the labor movement, we have to revive the labor movement in the South. … We can’t just do it where it’s easy.”—Hamilton Nolan in conversation with In These Times Senior Editor Miles Kampf-Lassin

Chicago tonight 5 pm—
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