History of the widespread mutiny of US troops in Vietnam that brought the world's most powerful military machine to its knees. The GI anti-war movement within the army was one of the decisive factors in ending the war.
(Reuters) - President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Monday that will create a task force to promote labor organizing, a White House official said, at a time when just over 6 percent of U.S. private-sector workers belong to unions. The White House task force will be headed by Vice President Kamala Harris, the official, who did not wish to be named, told Reuters. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will serve as vice chair of the group. The task force will also include top cabinet officials such as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the White House economic advisers Cecilia Rouse and Brian Deese, the White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy and Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen.
Portland activists block eviction
Portland activists block eviction
By Johnnie Lewis posted on December 15, 2020
Dec. 14 The Kinney family owners of the now internationally famous “Red House on Mississippi” is the last Black-Indigenous family in their neighborhood. They have been fighting foreclosure, and now eviction, since 2018.
The house, purchased in 1955, is in the Albina district a collection of neighborhoods in the only sections of Portland where Black people were allowed to own property for most of the 20th century. The district, home to the majority of the city’s Black population, has long been under attack by developers and gentrifiers and targeted for so-called urban renewal actually, removal. This once vibrant Black community has been destroyed.