Month: June 2018

A People’s History of Utica

by Utica IWW Earlier in 2018, IWW organizer and adjunct professor of History at Mohawk Valley Community College delivered a lecture entitled “A People’s History of Utica” at the college. The lecture covers the labor movement, the textile strike of 1919, the IWW, the socialist movement, the anti-fascist […]

UN Expert: US Authorities ‘Punish And Imprison’ The Poor

“Its citizens lives shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies,” said Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty. by TeleSur / Global A United Nations human rights investigator has criticized the United States for failing to alleviate poverty among its citizens, saying that U.S. authorities are “punishing and imprisoning the poor.” […]