Experiments with truth: 12/22/10

    • Off-duty Jimmy Johns employees stood outside several locations omnMonday asking customers to sign “holiday cards” urging the franchise owners to agree to time-and-a-half pay for employees working Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, as well as on national holidays.
    • A multiracial group gathered in Charleston, South Carolina on Monday with electric candles and signs for an NAACP-sanctioned protest of a “Secession Ball,” commemorating the state’s decision to secede from the United States of America exactly 150 years ago.


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    • Analysis

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    May 9, 2024

    While media and universities try to delegitimize student encampments, there’s still a way they can shift public opinion to support an end to the genocide in Gaza.

    • Q&A

    NYC’s Riders Alliance has a vision for a better, safer subway with less policing

    May 7, 2024

    A grassroots group of MTA passengers and community leaders is organizing riders to support new community investments and push back against regressive public safety narratives.

    • Analysis

    Columbia students are sick at heart — just as we were in ‘68

    May 1, 2024

    An organizer of the 1968 Columbia University protests on why the message against war, then and now, is the same.