By Kevin O’Kelly Correspondent
Even before the job losses of the pandemic, many American workers were facing a tough situation. In recent years, fed-up employees – from fast-food workers to university adjunct instructors – have seen little choice but to unionize. The signs of a rising new labor movement makes journalist Edward McClelland’s latest book, “Midnight in Vehicle City: General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class,” remarkably timely.
McClelland details what was arguably the most important strike in American history. On Dec. 30, 1936, a few thousand workers took over one small GM plant in Flint, Michigan, and brought the nation’s leading automaker to a standstill.
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It s not peak-time for GAA content, what with Congress in the rear-view mirror and no on-field action for a while yet.
This time around, we re going back 20 years, to the inaugural back-door championship in 2001.
In a nice turn, the first All-Ireland championship under the new format ended up being won, via the backdoor, by the only county to vote against its adoption at Congress.
What else? The Rossies lit up the championship and then allegedly lit up their rivals jerseys. The Dubs headed off on tour, Hill 16 pitching up on the Killinan side of Thurles in one of the more famous games of the decade.
Ulster s Warwick receives 2-game ban after red card versus Leinster
The 29-year-old prop was sent off for leading with an elbow as opponent Ed Byrne tried to tackle him. By The42 Team Thursday 11 Mar 2021, 11:54 AM Mar 11th 2021, 11:54 AM 3,709 Views 20 Comments
Ulster s Andrew Warwick leaves the field due to a red card.
Image: James Crombie/INPHO
Image: James Crombie/INPHO
ULSTER RUGBY player Andrew Warwick has been handed a two-game ban, after his red card in last Saturday’s Pro14 clash against Leinster.
The 29-year-old forward was punished for leading with an elbow as opponent Ed Byrne tried to tackle him.
Leni Sinclair Author, left, along with Deana Clamage and Leon Linderman, looking out windows of the Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam broken by Breakthrough, a right-wing, violent group. Circa 1966.
Peter Werbe is a longtime Detroit political activist, a retired WRIF talk show host, and member of the Fifth Estate magazine editorial group. His new book, Summer on Fire: A Detroit Novel
, is out now. In a summer marked by scorching temperatures and an urban uprising, Werbe s characters are thrust into tumultuous episodes of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, anti-war demonstrations, fighting fascists, rock n roll at the Grande, drugs, anarchism, the White Panther Party, Wilhelm Reich, and a bomb plot that provides what former Metro Times
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