Immigration attorneys, immigrants living in the US legally and non-White US citizens now worry that innocuous activities that aren’t indicative of illegal behavior will be used as reasons for law enforcement to stop and question them.

Right-wing activists are targeting teachers, workers for critical remarks on Charlie Kirk’s death.

- @patmullen.bsky.social looks at STILL SINGLE and Masaki Saito's work hard/play hard lifestyle - @filmfest.bsky.social intvws Min Sook Lee about her most personal work - @smallmind.bsky.social talks Black Zombie & Haitian Vodou w/ @mayaannik.bsky.social povmagazine.com/issue-124-fa...

SafeWork NSW orders UTS to pause job cuts due to risk of ‘psychological harm’

True. Also works at eviction court!

Locked-out Dalhousie Faculty Association members reject contract offer www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“All of these deaths are avoidable, perpetuated by the cruelty of our policies...But the heat deaths in particular seem so senseless.” Cruel and senseless: two words that sum up this administration.

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

According to new government statistics, U.S. border agents searched more electronic devices during a three-month period than ever before. CPB searched 14,899 devices of international travellers between April and June, a 17% rise on the previous 2022 record high. finance.yahoo.com/news/device-...

@unifor.org @psac-afpc.bsky.social @oflabour.bsky.social @seiu.org @cupescfp.bsky.social @opseusefpo.bsky.social @labourcouncil.bsky.social @etfoeducators.bsky.social @osstf.bsky.social @cupwsttp.bsky.social Three years. No justice for the family of Garvin Yapp. Mourn the dead! Fight 4 the living!

Justice Garvin Yapp! @j4mw.bsky.social

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. (Published April 2024)

NEW: Ontario Prisoners Are Passing Out from Extreme Heat The Correctional Service of Canada says it gives prisoners water, ice, and fans during heat waves. But family members and advocates say that’s not enough — and sometimes isn’t happening at all.

News coverage from our recent action around heat stress www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister. “I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

My extended speech from a few weeks back at London!/ Island Fest. antlerrivermedia.ca/end-the-plan...

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together. With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection. If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Longshore Workers Remember the Struggle To Free the Charleston Five portside.org/2025-07-24/l...

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

Centuries of colonialism cost Puerto Rico's native mangroves. This group has planted over 22,000 since 2023. Read the full story:

LitHub ran an excerpt from WE ARE EATING THE EARTH, from the scene where my dork-hero first realizes there's something fishy about all the studies that claimed ethanol was greener than gasoline. lithub.com/how-big-agri...

It’s so hot outside we gonna fry an egg on the sidewalk to show the impact of extreme heat on workers. Join us tomorrow!

"Albuquerque made zero-fare transit permanent in November 2023, becoming one of the largest U.S. cities to implement zero-fare transit. About a year and a half later, transit officials and advocates say the zero-fare program is working as intended, by serving the city’s lowest-income residents."

"Those seeing Mamdani's victory as an overnight success are missing the bigger picture — namely, the political movement built over decades, largely by young people" Read more about the youth organizers who helped secure that Mamdani win ⤵️

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

The White House's war on disabled Americans continues, going above and beyond Project 2025—now with attacks on a popular hiring program no one even lobbied against.

#toronto. One of a few H20 trucks. At City Hall. 1 pm. In middle of a heat wave. What a waste. Wrong location.

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

A magnificent action. #Farmworkers www.visaverge.com/news/farmwor...

FRANCE / EUROPE: French case shows the need for telework legislation www.eurocadres.eu/news/french-...

INDIA: Congratulations to workers, farmers,agri-workersand the people at large for the Grand Success of the Nationwide General Strike on 09 July 2025 www.citucentre.org/914-congratu...

The Colorado Rapid Response Network runs a 24/7 hotline and documents ICE sightings throughout Colorado. It has amassed about 3K volunteers. ICE has condemned the network for allegedly interfering with its work, but members say they're protecting local communities. By @brumerdelilah.bsky.social

THIS is what courage looks like.Today, striking farmworkers bravely stood in front of cameras, the community, and the press, risking their jobs, safety, and future. To speak the truth. About the stolen wages. About the years of being unheard. This is a movement. And today was a turning point.

WORKPLACES nationwide are not equipped to deal with heatwaves and are putting workers at risk as extreme weather becomes more frequent, a new report warned today There is currently no legal maximum temperature for UK workplaces #ClimateCrisis #WorkersRights morningstaronline.co.uk/article/work...

Thanks so much Naomi! (and here's the link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... )

To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof | Polly Toynbee

La Via Campesina hosts a webinar in solidarity with Palestine tomorrow #AllEyesOnGaza 🕒 Time: 12 UTC / 14 CEST ➡️ Find your local time here shorturl.at/KyIC2 ➡️Registration link : nolog.link/s/GlobalWebi...

New York City canners—many of them immigrants and people of color—help keep millions of containers out of landfills. Their work keeps the country’s largest city cleaner, yet their contributions remain largely unrecognized. My latest for @prismreports.org

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis. “I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

The Food Issue is here, looking at delicious GTA eats and the less discussed sides of the industry. Paper copies are going out into the TTC and elsewhere this weekend and early next week. Half the articles are online now and the rest will be up soon: www.thegrindmag.ca/issue/2025-s...

The number of immigrants detained in ICE facilities across the country has reached a record high of more than 56,000, the most since 2019.

Happening tonight in #Ottawa. Demand justice for #migrant workers

"Workers in the US were deeply split in the 1930s, not least by race and ethnicity. To organize greater swaths of the working class, the Congress of Industrial Organizations had to turn division into solidarity." jacobin.com/2024/01/cong...

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