Joe Bernick
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joe Bernick
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News
Salt of the Earth Labor College spotlights border militarization and death
March 12, 2021Special online presentation, Saturday, March 20.
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Opinion
On big lies and insurgencies: Comparing Capitol attacks
February 12, 2021TV and other media keep comparing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol to the British attack during the War of 1812, but there is an historical event that bears a better comparison.
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U.S.
Anita Torrez, Southwestern labor leader and Communist activist, dies at 94
February 4, 2021Spent a lifetime in the struggles for economic justice and an end to discrimination.
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Politics
Arizona and beyond: Watching in real time as a state inexorably turns blue
November 9, 2020Democrats and progressives have a unique opportunity in Georgia and in the nation that could hardly have been imagined before Nov. 3.
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Politics
Education initiative helping mobilize voters against the right wing in Arizona
September 10, 2020The broad support for Prop. 208 across the entire state in practically every community should help turn out an electorate that can only benefit progressive candidates.
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Labor
Arizona’s first-ever nurses’ union contract signed in Tucson
July 22, 2020It took 18 months of negotiations, including a one-day strike a year later, before an agreement was finally reached with the employers.
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Opinion
Arizona teachers want to tax the rich for their students
July 8, 2020With support from labor, teachers, healthcare workers, prison reform activists, and the stoners backing legal marijuana, the grassroots have shown they can bust ass and build broad support despite the pandemic.
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Opinion
Class struggle, resistance to police violence and racism run deep in Minneapolis history
June 1, 2020Class struggle runs deep in South Minneapolis.
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