Autoworkers Staged Their First Big Strike in the 1930s. Here’s How They Won.
A scene from the sit-down strike at GM’s Fisher Body No. 1 plant in Flint, Michigan, which began on December 30, 1936, and lasted 44 days.UAW Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, leaders of the striking United Auto Workers vowed to expand their…
A Brief History of Politicians Shooting, Flamethrowing, and Generally Using Deadly Weapons in Campaign Ads
A still from a 2014 ad created for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska). Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Over the weekend, a partial lie spread online. In Missouri, on a dark night, two Republican state senators brandished flamethrowers, while encircled by iPhone-wielding spectators, and burned empty boxes…
Climate Protesters Arrested en Masse at Federal Reserve Bank
Monday’s action was organized by a coalition of groups including New York Communities for Change and Extinction Rebellion NYC.Matthew Rodier/Sipa USA/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One day after the largest climate march since the start of the Covid pandemic, hundreds of climate activists blockaded the…
J.D. Vance Really Wants You to Believe He Supports Striking Auto Workers
Then-Senate candidate J.D. Vance, left, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) at a campaign rally in Ohio last year.Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After the UAW went on strike last week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) took to social media to declare, “Auto workers…
Child Protective Service Workers Share Their “Secret Truths That Haunt”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Their gatherings were like something you’d expect after war, or genocide. Halting voices. Silences. The hush of a confessional. But these weren’t soldiers—they were social workers. They spoke from their homes via the dispassionate confines of a Zoom conference. One…
It’s Now Clear: “Cop City” Is About Democracy
Miguel Martinez/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last Wednesday, US District Judge Mark Cohen criticized Atlanta officials for refusing to verify over 100,000 petition signatures submitted in the effort to put a police training facility that has become known as “Cop City” up for…