Weekly Roundup, Vol. 21

September 18, 2020 | Weekly Roundup

It’s Friday again, comrades. Get comfortable and dig in to our Weekly Roundup.

Racial Justice

Forced Sterilization Is Nothing New to Criminalized People in the US [5 min]

Reparations for Slavery and Settler Colonialism [32 min]

Police and Racist Vigilantes: Even Worse Than You Think [14 min]

Labor Movement

Landslide Vote by Nurses in North Carolina Delivers Biggest Hospital Unionization Win in US South in 45 Years [2 min]

Why Won’t the US’s Largest Labor Federation Talk About a General Strike? [6 min]

Post Office Workers Can Be Defenders of Key Public Goods [8 min]

Learning from History

We Really Still Need Howard Zinn [13 min]

Pauli Murray Was a Civil Rights Trailblazer [11 min]

The “Scarlet Runners” Women Were at the Center of New Zealand’s Six-Month-Long Miners’ Strike [12 min]

Electoral Politics

How Trump Is Losing His Base [10 min]

How Progressives Built a Campaign Machine … Thanks to the DCCC [23 min]

Joe Biden Won’t Learn Anything From Ed Markey’s Win [5 min]

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