Feb 6, 2026
Feb. 3, 2026 marked the three-year anniversary of the Norfolk
Southern train derailment and chemical disaster in East Palestine,
OH—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Over the
last three years, residents have been exploited and abandoned by
Norfolk Southern, the government, opportunistic...
Feb 1, 2026
Hundreds of union nurses, federal workers, and local residents
gathered outside the Veterans Affairs central office building in
Washington, DC, on Jan. 28, to hold a vigil for Alex Pretti and all
who have been killed by ICE. The vigil was one of many events
organized or co-sponsored by National Nurses United, the...
Jan 28, 2026
On Friday, Jan. 23, around 50,000 people in Minneapolis, MN,
engaged in a historic mass strike and day of protest to demand an
end to ICE terror and President Trump’s federal siege of Minnesota.
Then, on Saturday, Jan. 24, an ICE agent shot and killed Alex
Pretti, volunteer ICE observer and a registered union
nurse...
Jan 21, 2026
The state of Minnesota is under siege by our own federal
government, and residents—immigrant and US-born alike—are living in
fear. With the deployment of over 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota
in recent weeks, this is the Trump administration’s largest
and most violent so-called “immigration enforcement”...
Dec 18, 2025
On Monday, Nov. 24, after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh before returning to work at the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Even though strikers have
returned to work, however, many issues at the center of the strike
are still...
