Kim Kelly - Solidarity as Self-Defense

Jordan T. Camp speaks with labor reporter Kim Kelly about labor history, solidarity, and resistance to the far right.

Trinity Social Justice Institute
Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey Wants You to Wake the F*ck Up

The Nazi-punching, union-supporting punk rocker who's setting an example in the Trump era.

In These Times
American Narcissus

Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora.

In These Times

Is anyone here a paid subscriber to Kim Kelly's Salvo metal website/newsletter? I dig the couple of interviews that have gone in my inbox since signing up for the free bits, wondering if I should go for the paid tier.

#KimKelly #metal

Trump’s treatment of Appalachia’s coal miners exemplifies his approach to labor in general: Kneecap unions whenever possible, prop up industry profits at all costs, and if a few workers die in the process, pretend it never happened.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-coal-miners-black-lung-labor-day

#Appalachia #BlackLung #CoalMiners #Journalism #KimKelly #LabourDay

Trump to Coal Miners: Drop Dead

The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.

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Waste land / Colder case

Kim Kelly appreciates municipal services, and Arwa Mahdawi concludes her true crime investigation

Flaming Hydra
'Fight Like Hell' author Kim Kelly shatters assumptions about working-class people, labor history - Pittsburgh Union Progress

We rolled into Monday concerned the world had gone a bit wobbly, with American bombs screaming down on Iranian nuclear facilities and news that we’re all about to fry in a giant atmospheric slow cooker that forecasters are calling a “heat dome.” June is turning out peachy. A war, 95-degree temperatures and a 32-month strike. […]

Pittsburgh Union Progress
019: State of the Unions feat. Kim Kelly

The challenges facing organized labor movements in the second Trump administration

Posting Through It
A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit arguing that the mass firings would lead to irreparable harm.

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Trump Just Escalated His War on Coal Miners. Their Unions Are Fighting Back.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.

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