Matt Nichter
@mfnich.bsky.social
historical sociologist. nothing human is foreign. fight the powers that be. views my own. articles: http://tinyurl.com/2r6zmzzh, http://tinyurl.com/5ahty56u
book launch w/ @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social
Tuesday, Nov. 11
6:30 pm Central time / 7:30 pm Eastern Time
f2f in Chicago + live stream anywhere. donations appreciated
Tuesday, Nov. 11
6:30 pm Central time / 7:30 pm Eastern Time
f2f in Chicago + live stream anywhere. donations appreciated
No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine - Haymarket House
Join Jeff Schuhrke, Sarah Lazare, Nesreen Hasan in conversation about Schuhrke latest book No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine. About the Book US trade unionists are o...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
book launch w/ @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social
Tuesday, Nov. 11
6:30 pm Central time / 7:30 pm Eastern Time
f2f in Chicago + live stream anywhere. donations appreciated
Tuesday, Nov. 11
6:30 pm Central time / 7:30 pm Eastern Time
f2f in Chicago + live stream anywhere. donations appreciated
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In his new book, No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, historian Jeff Schuhrke explains that the U.S. labor movement has never been neutral when it comes to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Review by Digital Organizer Samantha Cooney: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...
Review by Digital Organizer Samantha Cooney: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In his new book, No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, historian Jeff Schuhrke explains that the U.S. labor movement has never been neutral when it comes to Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
Review by Digital Organizer Samantha Cooney: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...
Review by Digital Organizer Samantha Cooney: www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feat...
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Hotels, restaurants, pools, parks, gas stations, restrooms, drinking fountains and roadside stops were not equally open to all Americans. The Green Book Project archives the data and memorializes this important history of segregation greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
#CommunityMap #EconSky
October 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Hotels, restaurants, pools, parks, gas stations, restrooms, drinking fountains and roadside stops were not equally open to all Americans. The Green Book Project archives the data and memorializes this important history of segregation greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky
#CommunityMap #EconSky
Arun Kundnani (@arunkundnani.bsky.social), "Can Universities be Antiracist? Liberal Scholarship in Genocidal Times," Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 103 (2025), pp. 107-117
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October 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Arun Kundnani (@arunkundnani.bsky.social), "Can Universities be Antiracist? Liberal Scholarship in Genocidal Times," Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 103 (2025), pp. 107-117
@pmheideman.bsky.social provides a precis of a classic by Claus Offe, a giant of critical sociology who recently passed along
Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights.
This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.
This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.
Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism
Workers must organize for power, while capitalists wield it individually through property rights. This fundamental asymmetry, as German sociologist Claus Offe explained, creates a chain of obstacles that make working-class collective action uniquely difficult.
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October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
@pmheideman.bsky.social provides a precis of a classic by Claus Offe, a giant of critical sociology who recently passed along
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On the “Black Liberal Arts Tradition.” Morehouse next Thursday thru Saturday. If you’re in ATL come through. Some great papers and keynotes from Joshua Myers and Crystal Sanders.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Liberal Arts Tradition
As an alumnus of Morehouse College, Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘48 is the product of a rich and vibrant “circle of culture” encompassing the various places and means by which Black peoples examined, disc
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October 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
On the “Black Liberal Arts Tradition.” Morehouse next Thursday thru Saturday. If you’re in ATL come through. Some great papers and keynotes from Joshua Myers and Crystal Sanders.
sway.cloud.microsoft/lq4BYdHorMjj...
sway.cloud.microsoft/lq4BYdHorMjj...
"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵
Ann Fagan Ginger, Tireless Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 100
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
"At 100, Ms. Ginger was among the last of a generation of lawyers and activists who weathered McCarthyism and the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort during the 1960s and after." 🧵
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Listen to historian @josephamccartin.bsky.social detail the essential role of Jews in the U.S. labor movement, which he had to explain to antiunion members of Congress trying to label contemporary unions with “antisemitism.” laborhistorytoday.podbean.com/e/unmasking-...
Unmasking Anti-union Antisemitism | Labor History Today
This week on Labor History Today, labor historian Joseph McCartin joins Chris Garlock to unpack his recent congressional testimony on unions, antisemitism, and the long fight for solidarity. From the ...
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September 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Listen to historian @josephamccartin.bsky.social detail the essential role of Jews in the U.S. labor movement, which he had to explain to antiunion members of Congress trying to label contemporary unions with “antisemitism.” laborhistorytoday.podbean.com/e/unmasking-...
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Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Our political discourse pits identity politics against economic populism. But the choice is false and contributes to incredible confusion about the working class across the political spectrum. For @hammerandhope.bsky.social I show why and sketch an alternative (sorry to crosspost):
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July 5 marked the 90th anniversary of the signing of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act. There are important lessons to be taken from the sorry state of this aged labor law. One is that labor law reform will not rescue unions. Only union struggles can do that.
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
Requiem for the Wagner Act
Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.
prospect.org
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
July 5 marked the 90th anniversary of the signing of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act. There are important lessons to be taken from the sorry state of this aged labor law. One is that labor law reform will not rescue unions. Only union struggles can do that.
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
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Thanks @thenation.com for understanding the importance of learning the actual lessons from Martin and Coretta Scott King for this Juneteenth, how much he is distorted in public discourse, and what they give us for our struggles today: www.thenation.com/article/acti...
5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.
www.thenation.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Thanks @thenation.com for understanding the importance of learning the actual lessons from Martin and Coretta Scott King for this Juneteenth, how much he is distorted in public discourse, and what they give us for our struggles today: www.thenation.com/article/acti...