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The Stunning Rebirth of the American Labor Movement

by Robert Reich - AlterNet.org - 04-24-2024

https://www.alternet.org/labor-movement-2667834162/

Do Immigrants Help or Hurt the US Economy? 

by Stephen Humphries - ChristianScienceMonitor - 04-09-2024

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2024/0409/immigrants-us-economy-labor-shortage

How to Die in Good Health

The average American celebrates just one healthy birthday after the age of sixty-five. Peter Attia argues that it doesn’t have to be this way.

by Dhruv Khullar - New Yorker - 04-15-2024

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/22/how-to-die-in-good-health

Why Heat Pumps Are the Future and How Your Home Could Use One

Why the highly efficient devices are the darlings of the environmental movement.

by Hilary Howard - NYTimes - 04-14-2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/nyregion/heat-pumps-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk0.fv_z.cfV-_lHhdDiL&smid=url-share [Free gift article]

Why Your Vet Bill Is So High

by Helaine Olen - Atlantic/MSN -

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/why-your-vet-bill-is-so-high/ar-AA1nEmEb?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The World Can Cut Plastic Pollution by 80% by 2040, the UN says. Here’s How

by Laura Paddison - CNN - 05-16-2023  

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/16/world/plastic-pollution-unep-climate-intl

Compassion Is Making a Comeback in America

A decade ago research showed a troubling dip in empathy. New study offers more hope.

by Jamil Zaki -vox.com - 04-23-2024

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24137520/americans-empathy-new-compassion-research

Powering the Energy Transition

Experts agree on two things when it comes to the clean energy transition: it will be hard getting to a net-zero future and failing to get there is not an option.

by Ralph Ranalli -HKS.harvard.edu - spring 2024

bit.ly/4aW9fK2

The Homelessness Public Health Crisis

Addressing a problem “undermining the very fabric of our society”

by Lydialyle Gibson - Harvard Magazine - May-June 2024

bit.ly/3y5N84Y

From Draft Cards to Hashtags

The changing face of student protest from the 1960s to today.

by Steven Mintz - Inside Higher Ed - 04-25-2024

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2024/04/25/protests-student-protests-vietnam-1960s-campus-higher-ed

Congressional Progressive Caucus 2024 Agenda, Executive Summary 

bit.ly/3JBjvew

ASTRA TAYLOR was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Athens, Georgia. Her documentary films include What Is Democracy? and Examined Life. She regularly writes for major publications, and her books include Democracy May Not Exist but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone; Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions; the American Book Award-winner The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age; and as I said two within the past year, THE AGE OF INSECURITY; and her latest, co-authored with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, SOLIDARITY: The Past Present and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Taylor has toured with the band Neutral Milk Hotel, and co-founded the Debt Collective.

Solidarity Forever: Building Movements Amid Today’s Crises (Audio)

Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their new book “Solidarity: The Past Present and Future of a World-Changing Idea.”

The Intercept - April 12 2024  

bit.ly/4aTYRlZ

The Lost Art of Solidarity — and How to Find It Again

Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on a taken-for-granted idea -- what it means how to grow it across difference and why it can change the world

The Ink - 03-20-2024 

https://the.ink/p/leah-hunt-hendrix-astra-taylor-solidarity-book

‘Organizing Is the Best Kind of Anti-depressant’: Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on Solidarity

by Amy Fleming – Guardian - 03-23-2024

The activists who first met at Occupy Wall Street in 2011 talk about the limits of protest – and the power of connecting across difference to change the world

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/23/organising-is-the-best-kind-of-antidepressant-astra-taylor-and-leah-hunt-hendrix-on-solidarity

Why Does Everyone Feel So Insecure All the Time?

by Astra Taylor - NYTimes - 08-18-2023

bit.ly/3JDNLFG [Free gift article]

Astra Taylor’s Age of Insecurity

The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine.

by Molly Fischer - NewYorker - 09-24-2023

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/astra-taylors-age-of-insecurity

Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor and Rithika Ramamurthy - Non-Profit Quarterly - 09-19-2023

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/capitalism-the-insecurity-machine-a-conversation-with-astra-taylor/

Democracy May Not Exist But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (excerpt)

by Astra Taylor - Introduction - Living in the Tension

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250231284/democracy-may-not-exist-but-well-miss-it-when-its-gone

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