@profpetercole.bsky.social
Historian of labor, race, and (dock)workers. Unionist. Vegan. None of us are free until all of us are free. Ubuntu
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Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their recent boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
Dockerworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy
Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
wagingnonviolence.org
The Genoese dockworkers inserted themselves into the globe’s most contentious political issue, Palestine, using the best tool in any worker’s toolbox: stopping work. Call it a boycott, call it direct action, call it a strike. When workers stop working, bosses & governments take notice. My latest! ✊
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🎨 Labor Art of the Week: Street art from Quito, Ecuador 🇪🇨 — snapped recently by Chris Garlock.
See it: bit.ly/47wy5ki
Got labor art? Send it our way: info@laborheritage.org
See it: bit.ly/47wy5ki
Got labor art? Send it our way: info@laborheritage.org
LABOR ART OF THE WEEK: Quito Street Art - Labor Heritage Foundation
Street art seen in Quito, Ecuador last weekend. Photo by Chris GarlockGot labor art? Send it to us! info@laborheritage.org
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November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎨 Labor Art of the Week: Street art from Quito, Ecuador 🇪🇨 — snapped recently by Chris Garlock.
See it: bit.ly/47wy5ki
Got labor art? Send it our way: info@laborheritage.org
See it: bit.ly/47wy5ki
Got labor art? Send it our way: info@laborheritage.org
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“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
I’m One of the Clergy ICE Assaulted. They Treat Immigrants Worse
I learned the hard way that my clerical collar doesn’t offer much protection from ICE. But immigrants have no protection at all.
sojo.net
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“We have rarely witnessed such brutality erupt into public view like it has in Chicago,” writes Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston. “For me, this is a spiritual emergency, and it means putting our bodies on the line in order to stop deportations.”
How evil are trump-maga-gop? Let me count the ways...as in, let me see how frackin billionaires and millionaires get more mega tax breaks while the poor starve and gov't workers are forced to work for no $. This is America. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
How evil are trump-maga-gop? Let me count the ways...as in, let me see how frackin billionaires and millionaires get more mega tax breaks while the poor starve and gov't workers are forced to work for no $. This is America. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
We organized a great event w/ our partners, Organic Oneness & Firebird Community Arts and some of their amazing artists creating our 38 markers! We followed that w/ an excellent historic walking tour of 3 markers recently installed in the Loop. Please read, share & support our work if able!
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project has spent years installing memorials throughout the city to honor those killed during the historic event. The latest additions were featured in a walking tour in the Loop on Saturday.
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Artists highlight lasting impact of Chicago's 1919 race riot with glass markers in the Loop
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project has spent years installing memorials throughout the city to honor those killed during the historic event. The latest additions were featured in a walking tour in the Loop on Saturday.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We organized a great event w/ our partners, Organic Oneness & Firebird Community Arts and some of their amazing artists creating our 38 markers! We followed that w/ an excellent historic walking tour of 3 markers recently installed in the Loop. Please read, share & support our work if able!
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US soldiers stationed in Germany and civilian employees of the US armed forces are not receiving any salary or other payments.
They are being fed by food banks and charities in Germany.
@reuters.com also just reported that US military base workers in Italy are being fed by charity too.
They are being fed by food banks and charities in Germany.
@reuters.com also just reported that US military base workers in Italy are being fed by charity too.
German Food Banks Feed 37,000 US Soldiers
US soldiers stationed in Germany and civilian employees of the US armed forces are not receiving any salary or other payments. German authorities are compensating the civil employees, but not soldiers
hanschristensen.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
US soldiers stationed in Germany and civilian employees of the US armed forces are not receiving any salary or other payments.
They are being fed by food banks and charities in Germany.
@reuters.com also just reported that US military base workers in Italy are being fed by charity too.
They are being fed by food banks and charities in Germany.
@reuters.com also just reported that US military base workers in Italy are being fed by charity too.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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@profpetercole.bsky.social explores the long history of dockworkers solidarity activism in support of peoples fighting authoritarianism, imperialism, and racism in the latest issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social. Check out a preview below at LaborOnline.
lawcha.org/2025/10/23/s...
lawcha.org/2025/10/23/s...
"Scrap Iron Becomes Bullets": When Dockers Fought Fascism with Direct Action | LAWCHA
To protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza, dockworkers in Genoa, Italy attempted to convince their fellow workers in ports across Europe and North Africa to
lawcha.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
@profpetercole.bsky.social explores the long history of dockworkers solidarity activism in support of peoples fighting authoritarianism, imperialism, and racism in the latest issue of @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social. Check out a preview below at LaborOnline.
lawcha.org/2025/10/23/s...
lawcha.org/2025/10/23/s...
Hey Chicago! Please join us Sat. Nov 8, for a Commemorative Marker Presentation & Historic Walking Tour in the Loop. Sponsored by Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, which I co-direct, Chi Public Library, Chi Loop Alliance, Organic Oneness & Firebird Community Arts. Register in comments
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hey Chicago! Please join us Sat. Nov 8, for a Commemorative Marker Presentation & Historic Walking Tour in the Loop. Sponsored by Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project, which I co-direct, Chi Public Library, Chi Loop Alliance, Organic Oneness & Firebird Community Arts. Register in comments
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Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
- "what’s good for the planet is good for your pocket”
Story by @adammorton.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- "what’s good for the planet is good for your pocket”
Story by @adammorton.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
Labor announces ‘solar sharer’ program for households in NSW, south-east Queensland and South Australia
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power - even if they don’t have solar panels
- "what’s good for the planet is good for your pocket”
Story by @adammorton.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
- "what’s good for the planet is good for your pocket”
Story by @adammorton.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Trump just slipped up, admitting his plot to end the filibuster and tighten voting laws so Democrats "never obtain power" again. That's straight-up rigging 2026. #TrumpLies
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Trump just slipped up, admitting his plot to end the filibuster and tighten voting laws so Democrats "never obtain power" again. That's straight-up rigging 2026. #TrumpLies
Hunger by Design: The Cruel Politics Behind the SNAP Shutdown. Trump's war on the poor might be the most fracked up thing this wannabe dictator has done thus far. @hesimama.bsky.social puts into national and local context for @tsprnews.bsky.social www.tspr.org/tspr-comment...
Commentary: Hunger by Design – The Cruel Politics Behind the SNAP Shutdown
Women’s Voices commentator Heather McIlvaine-Newsad feels efforts to halt food assistance during the government shutdown are cruel. She calls them “hunger by design.”
www.tspr.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hunger by Design: The Cruel Politics Behind the SNAP Shutdown. Trump's war on the poor might be the most fracked up thing this wannabe dictator has done thus far. @hesimama.bsky.social puts into national and local context for @tsprnews.bsky.social www.tspr.org/tspr-comment...
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I heard that they're packing Andrew Cuomo into a box and putting him in that warehouse at the end of indiana jones
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I heard that they're packing Andrew Cuomo into a box and putting him in that warehouse at the end of indiana jones
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” -- Eugene Debs
Eugene V. Debs - Americans Who Tell The Truth
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November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” -- Eugene Debs
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Dick Cheney has died! He was personally and directly responsible for the US war in Iraq which killed about a million people and destroyed the country and launched ISIS and more. Oh and he was all about torture and fascist imperial presidencies. If there’s a hell below he’s already there
Good morning! Dick Cheney is dead and I have an obituary that I wrote all the way back in 2017 about this monster!
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/cheney
Cheney - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Dick Cheney, one of America’s worst war criminals, is dead. Born in 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, which amazingly makes University of Nebraska football only the second most grotesque American cultural ph...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Dick Cheney has died! He was personally and directly responsible for the US war in Iraq which killed about a million people and destroyed the country and launched ISIS and more. Oh and he was all about torture and fascist imperial presidencies. If there’s a hell below he’s already there
Trump is intentionally choosing to starve 42,000,000 human beings! That they happen to be Americans shouldn’t matter but it does. Nearly every elected republican official in DC also is complicit in using hunger as a political weapon. This is America. This is also “Christian nationalism”.
BREAKING: Trump has just posted on Truth Social indicating he doesn't intend to release SNAP funds until the government reopens, which would defy both a court order and his own administration's comments yesterday.
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Trump is intentionally choosing to starve 42,000,000 human beings! That they happen to be Americans shouldn’t matter but it does. Nearly every elected republican official in DC also is complicit in using hunger as a political weapon. This is America. This is also “Christian nationalism”.
Workers Here Have More in Common With Palestinians Being Bombed Than the Billionaires Bombing Them. Beyond a ceasefire, United Electrical Workers (UE) call for an end to US military aid to Israel—and why other unions should be working towards the same thing! inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
Workers Here Have More in Common With Palestinians Being Bombed Than the Billionaires Bombing Them
Even beyond the prospects of a ceasefire, the United Electrical Workers are calling for an end to US military aid to Israel—and why other unions should be working towards the same thing.
inthesetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Workers Here Have More in Common With Palestinians Being Bombed Than the Billionaires Bombing Them. Beyond a ceasefire, United Electrical Workers (UE) call for an end to US military aid to Israel—and why other unions should be working towards the same thing! inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
in addition to these HUGE consequences we still suffer from, Cheney pushed for US to go to war in Iraq in 2003--BASED ON LIES--which was/is such a total disaster: in Iraqis & Americans killed, $1 trillion spent, sparked creation of ISIS, empowered Iran. It's stunning how horrible Cheney's war was
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
in addition to these HUGE consequences we still suffer from, Cheney pushed for US to go to war in Iraq in 2003--BASED ON LIES--which was/is such a total disaster: in Iraqis & Americans killed, $1 trillion spent, sparked creation of ISIS, empowered Iran. It's stunning how horrible Cheney's war was
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Public Citizen's damning report exposes Trump's ballroom donors as corporate vultures gorging on $279 billion in federal contracts, with 14 mired in labor violations, SEC probes, and antitrust battles. #Corruption
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Public Citizen's damning report exposes Trump's ballroom donors as corporate vultures gorging on $279 billion in federal contracts, with 14 mired in labor violations, SEC probes, and antitrust battles. #Corruption
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Reminder: The government is shut down because Trump and Republicans don’t want to fund healthcare.
They are so against it that they were even willing to let 42 million Americans go hungry — until courts stepped in. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...
They are so against it that they were even willing to let 42 million Americans go hungry — until courts stepped in. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...
SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed
About 1 in 8 U.S. residents get an average of $187 a month per person in the food assistance known as SNAP. For the first time, the Trump administration stopped the payments due at the beginning of th...
www.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reminder: The government is shut down because Trump and Republicans don’t want to fund healthcare.
They are so against it that they were even willing to let 42 million Americans go hungry — until courts stepped in. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...
They are so against it that they were even willing to let 42 million Americans go hungry — until courts stepped in. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...
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