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Pacifica Nomination & Election Process – Kamau Harris From Pacifica’s WFPW In DC
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Jun 23, 2026 WASHINGTON
An explanation of the new election system imposed at Pacifica and how to navigate the nomination process. DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Pacifica Foundation, Inc. website nor an official website of any of the five Pacifica Foundation, Inc. Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio). Opinions and facts alleged on this site belong to the author(s) of the website only and should NOT be assumed to be true or to reflect the editorial stance or policy of the Pacifica Foundation, Inc., or any of the five Radio Stations (KPFA Radio, KPFK Radio, KPFT Radio, WBAI Radio, WPFW Radio), or the opinions of its management, Pacifica National Board, station staff, or other listener members.
ILWU Longshore Workers Speak Out on Juneteenth in San Francisco; Texas Birthplace of Juneteenth; Report from Cuba on Genocidal Oil Blockade; Massie Puts USS Liberty into Congressional Record
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By Capitalism, Race & Democracy – June 21, 20269
On Juneteenth 2026 longshore workers in Seattle and San Francisco shut down the ports. At San Francisco ILWU Local 10, which has a majority of Black workers, former ILWU 10 Secretary Treasurer Clarence Thomas and ILWU Local 10 Vice President Trent Willis talked about the history of Juneteenth and its lessons for today as Blacks and all workers face a fascist state that is preparing to bring back segregation and disenfranchise Black people in the Deep South. They spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer.
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Attorney Craig Washington, former Houston activist and politician – served in the Texas State House of Representative, the Texas State Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. He spoke with former IGM, scholar/poet and guest host of CRD – Dr. Obidike Kamau, of KPFT Houston about the history of Juneteenth.
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Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio are seeking to strangle Cuba with a total blockade of oil shipments to the island nation, in order to get the Communist government to capitulate to the demands of the United States. At last week’s Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Cuba to the United States, Ambassador Tanieris Diéguez spoke about the starvation and closure of hospitals killing babies and other patients from the lack of energy.
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On the floor of the House of Representatives, on June 8th, recently primaried Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie ended 59 years of Congressional silence about the Israeli military’s deadly attack on the USS Liberty. The Liberty was a US Navy technical research, i.e. electronic surveillance, spy ship then sailing in international waters off Palestine when Israel launched its 6-Day War against Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Palestine on June 5th. The Israeli air and naval attacks on the ship which began on June 8th went on for more than 30 hours and killed 34 American sailors and naval personnel while wounding 174 others.
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We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates that contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Steve Zeltzer, Ann Garrison, Akua Holt, Polina Vasiliev, and Thomas O’Rourke.
You can find this and all previous episodes at our website “capitalism race and democracy dot ORG”. Make sure you click the subscribe button. Follow us on X, formerly Twitter, @PacificaCRD.
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Music:
Prince, “When Will We Be Paid”
Fertile Ground, “Broken Branches”
Carlos Puebla, “Y en eso llegó Fidel”
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On Juneteenth 2026 longshore workers in Seattle and San Francisco shut down the ports. At San Francisco ILWU Local 10, which has a majority of Black workers, former ILWU 10 Secretary Treasurer Clar…
Hollywood unions, workers push back against Paramount-Skydance deal
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Sat, June 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM PDT 2 min read
Hollywood workers and union representatives rallied in Los Angeles on Saturday against Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Reuters reported.
Protesters argued the deal could lead to additional job losses and reduce competition across the entertainment industry.
The event, held at Lumiere Music Hall, marked the first stop of a three-city "Main Street vs. The Merger" campaign organized by advocacy groups, industry workers, and the Writers Guild of America.
Participants expressed concerns that continued consolidation among major media companies could weaken employment opportunities and reduce the number of outlets available for creative content.
Comedian Adam Conover, one of the featured speakers, said media mergers have already contributed to significant job losses across the industry.
He pointed to the cancellation of his television show following AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner in 2018 as an example of the impact consolidation can have on workers and production teams.
The proposed transaction would combine Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, creating one of the world's largest entertainment companies.
Paramount Skydance has argued the merger would strengthen the combined business without harming competition or creative output.
Chief Executive David Ellison has pledged that the merged company would continue producing at least 30 films annually, seeking to address concerns about reduced content investment.
Regulatory scrutiny remains a key focus. Reuters reported Friday that a group of U.S. states, including California and New York, are preparing a lawsuit aimed at blocking the transaction.
Industry employment has already faced pressure in recent years. Data from the Milken Institute showed California lost more than 17,000 entertainment-related jobs between 2019 and 2023 as studios reduced spending and increasingly shifted production to lower-cost locations.
Conditions have also weakened across Hollywood production facilities. According to FilmLA, soundstage occupancy rates fell to 62% during the first half of 2025, down sharply from near-full utilization levels recorded in 2016.
Labor advocates have argued that reduced competition among major studios could further limit opportunities for workers and independent producers.
Some legal experts have suggested regulators could challenge the transaction on labor market grounds, citing precedent from previous antitrust cases where authorities argued mergers would reduce employment competition.
The deal remains subject to regulatory review and approval.
New Orleans Journalist Warns of Neoconfederacy; Former Microsoft Workers Say No Tech for Apartheid; Spartacist League Militant Calls for Mumia Abu Jamal’s Freedom
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By Capitalism, Race & Democracy – June 8, 20269
Last week, the Supreme Court boosted the openly white supremacist campaign to suppress the Black vote in the Deep South. It ruled that districts jerry-mandered to discriminate against Black voters are constitutional. CC Cambell-Rock, an independent Black journalist from New Orleans, spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer about what this means to her community.
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At the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco, an annual event for engineers and other tech professionals, a former Microsoft worker and other activists spoke out against profiting from the use of the Azure cloud computing platform, AI, and other tech to commit genocide and war crimes. They called for a boycott of Microsoft products and a fight against massive public subsidy of the tech companies to wage war in the Middle East and around the world.
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Lital Singer of the Spartacist League spoke at a Partisan Defense Committee fundraiser for Class War Prisoners in NYC focusing on the case of political prisoner and veteran journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. Singer demands that a new generation take up the fight for Jamal’s freedom and against this racist frame-up system.
Next, we hear Mumia Abu Jamal’s message from prison addressing the attendees. In Mumia’s message from prison he highlighted the case of Alvaro Luna Hernandez aka Xinachtli, a political prisoner of the State of Texas and the U.S. government. Xinachtli is serving a 50 year prison sentence for an “aggravated assault” conviction stemming from a July 1996 incident in which he disarmed a Brewster County Sheriff who was attempting to shoot him. Alvaro vehemently denies the charge that he assaulted the Sheriff. To Mexican-Americans in the cities, slums, plains, deserts, and prison cages of the Southwest he is a civil rights hero, a Chicano freedom fighter true to his barrio roots and eternally fearless in the face of injustice.
For years, he has been internationally recognized by amnesty movements and human rights lawyers and experts as a U.S. political prisoner, yet inside the United States, the name Alvaro Luna Hernandez is little known. He is housed at the William McConnell Unit in Beehive, Texas, where he is a well-known jailhouse lawyer assisting other incarcerated people in their pursuit of justice.
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And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy.We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates that contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Steve Zeltzer, Ann Garrison, Polina Vasiliev, and Thomas O’Rourke.
You can find this and all previous episodes at our website “capitalism race and democracy dot ORG”. Make sure you click the subscribe button. Follow us on X, formerly Twitter, @PacificaCRD.
Thanks for listening.
Music:
Common, “I have a dream”
Fela Kuti, “Colonial Mentality”
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette Strikers Plan for a New Paper; Teamsters Challenge Union Leadership; Canadian Labor Congress Breaks With Israeli Corporate Union Histadrut; Dr. McCullough Debunks Hantavirus Hysteria
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Members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh just ended their strike over unfair labor practices at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette after 1132 days. They had won one court battle after another, until the Supreme Court ruled in their favor. The paper’s owners then announced that they would be shutting it down and turning it over to a non-profit, which promptly terminated most of the workers. Now the workers and the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh have decided to launch a new worker-community-owned newspaper. Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer interviewed labor journalist Steve Mellon, one of the workers who had been on strike, about what’s to come.
Israel’s main labor federation, the Histadrut, has a long history of supporting the Israeli apartheid state. It has strong ties to the US’s AFL-CIO, which is also supporting the Gaza genocide.
In Canada last month the Canadian Labor Congress broke ties with the Histadrut after a long education campaign and struggle at their convention. Canadian trade unionist Hassan Husseini, who is with Canadian Labour For Palestine, gave this report to a group of US trade unionists who are working in the US to break ties with the Histadrut and the AFL-CIO.
Next, Marianne Pizzitola and Michelle Keller, hosts of Labor and Healthcare Confidential on Pacifica’s WBAI in New York, talk to two rank-and-file Teamsters about their fight for equal representation in the contract battle that put them at odds with union leadership. Colleen Donovan is with UPS Teamsters Local 804-New York and Jess Lister is with Teamsters UPS Union Local 728-New York.
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Recent headlines scream about the next pandemic, but Dr. Peter McCullough says that there’s a lot of irrational fear involved. Next we share part of an interview Dr. McCullough gave to Kristie Leigh’s DC Dispatch on Lindell TV on May 23.
And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy. We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Steve Zeltzer, Ann Garrison, Polina Vasiliev, and Thomas O’Rourke.
You can find this and all previous episodes at our website “capitalism race and democracy dot ORG”. Make sure you click the subscribe button. Follow us on X, formerly Twitter, @PacificaCRD.
Thanks for listening.
Music:
David Rovics, performed by AI Tsuno, “If We All Sing Together”
Explosive Media, “Little Orange Man”
It’s Coming Out! (Who’s Funding Who?) from the Fearless Teamsters
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And now for some "light news" in light of the Secretary of "War" calling for a $1.5 Trillion Dollar military budget.
The single greatest thing destroying the US is the political weaponization of the US Military itself, whether that be grotesque, ineffective spending, spreading hatred of the US worldwide with endless interventions and devious proxy wars, community destroying AI Data Centers whose purpose is to serve military needs first, and diverting scarce real money from the dire needs of the American People. The US Military and the Dark Souls who control its purse strings are the real enemy of We The People
Centenary Congress: IFJ adopts motion to hold Israel accountable for war crimes against journalists in Lebanon
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11 May 2026
At its meeting in Paris from 4 to 7 May, the Congress of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) unanimously adopted an urgent motion submitted by the Union of Journalists in Lebanon. The motion called for Israel to be held accountable for war crimes against journalists and media workers in Lebanon.
Credit: Union of Journalists in Lebanon.
Whereas the systematic and deliberate Israeli attacks against journalists and media workers have not ceased in Lebanon since October 13, 2023, in blatant breach of international humanitarian law, of principles of press freedom and protection of media workers in times of armed conflict;
Whereas Israel assassinated Al-Akhbar journalist Amal Khalil on April 22, 2026, in what constitutes a war crime by the book, which was preceded by direct death threats, and during which Amal was surveilled, pursued, and repeatedly targeted. Furthermore, rescue and emergency teams were deliberately blocked and prevented from reaching her in time, which caused her death after denying her any chance of survival:
Around 14:30, an Israeli drone targeted a civilian vehicle escorting colleagues Amal Khalil and Zeinab Faraj on the Tiri–Bint Jbeil road, killing two people inside.
Urgent appeals were subsequently made to the Lebanese and International Red Cross, Civil Defense, the Lebanese Army, and UNIFIL forces to evacuate the two colleagues or secure a safe humanitarian corridor, but Israel refused to grant permission.
Around 15:30, the drone returned to target the colleagues' vehicle as they attempted to take shelter outside it, causing them injuries and burns.
Around 16:27, the house in which they had taken refuge was directly struck by a warplane.
Approximately half an hour after the strike on the house, around 17:00, rescue teams were granted permission to enter. However, as they attempted to extract Zeinab Faraj from under the rubbles and search for Amal Khalil, they were targeted with a sonic bomb and direct gunfire, with some bullets hitting a Lebanese Red Cross vehicle, forcing them to withdraw and making it impossible to continue search and rescue operations.
Rescue teams and the Lebanese Army remained blocked from accessing the area until around 20:00. The teams were only able to reach Amal Khalil's location and recover her body around 23:00, far too late to save her. According to the forensic report, Amal’s death occurred at approximately 19:00 due to cardiac arrest and acute hemorrhage resulting from a blunt-force head injury.
The testimony of the sole survivor, colleague Zeinab Faraj, confirms that an Israeli surveillance drone was flying overhead and descending repeatedly to verify they were still alive. She recounted: "We held our breath and pretended to be dead so they would not kill us." This constitutes clear evidence of deliberate surveillance, direct targeting, in knowledge of the identity of those being targeted.
This crime was preceded by direct threats sent to Amal Khalil on her personal number from a number linked to Israeli intelligence, dated August 25, 2024, reading: "Is your house still standing, Miss Amal? We advise you to flee wherever you can if you wish to keep your head on your shoulders." Furthermore, Al-Akhbar newspaper received a direct threat on September 21, 2024, warning of targeting if Amal Khalil did not cease her media coverage, which establishes premeditation and deliberate intent.
And whereas, on March 28, 2026, an Israeli drone targeted a press team on the Kfar Houneh-Jezzine road in southern Lebanon, causing the death of Al-Manar channel correspondent Ali Shoeib, Al-Mayadeen correspondent Fatima Ftouni, and her brother, cameraman Mohammad Ftouni, in a crime openly claimed by the Israeli army;
And whereas, on March 18, 2026, Mohammad Cherri, director of political programs at Al-Manar, was killed along with his wife in an Israeli strike targeting their apartment in Zoqaq el-Blat neighborhood in central Beirut;
Whereas Morris Tidball-Binz, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, established in his statement – following his official visit to Lebanon on October 12, 2025 – that the deliberate killing of journalists constitutes a war crime;
And whereas, on April 2, 2026, Tidball-Binz, jointly with Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and Ben Saul, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, called for an independent international investigationinto the targeted killing of journalists; they urged Lebanon to document and preserve evidence, affirming that the deliberate killing of journalists constitutes a war crime and a serious violation of international law; they also stressed the need to ensure international accountability, bring an end to impunity, and guarantee the victims' families right to truth, justice and reparation;
Whereas the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions is expected to present his recommendations in his report to the Human Rights Council at its next session in June 2026;
And whereas, during the June 2026 session, the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group on Lebanon will also present recommendationsto the Lebanese State regarding the protection of journalists and press freedom, including:
Ensuring freedom of expression and protecting journalists from violence and intimidation (adopted by Ecuador and Sierra Leone)
Adopting protection protocols in line with international standards and the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists (Bulgaria)
Documenting war crimes and strengthening accountability mechanisms (Oman)
Ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Latvia, Luxembourg, Ukraine) and referring crimes to the competent authorities (Colombia)
Whereas the Union of Journalists in Lebanon has been calling on the Lebanese State, since the beginning of the Israeli attacks against journalists in October 2023, to officially document war crimes, open serious judicial investigations, and request the establishment of an independent international commission of inquiry, either through the Human Rights Council or the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; the Union urges the Lebanese State to accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court pursuant to Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute, in order to investigate crimes on Lebanese territory since October 2023;
Whereas these demands continue to be neglected and postponed by the Lebanese authorities, amid global silence, which increases the risks faced by journalists, hinders their freedom of action and the people’s right to information, it also enshrines impunity and undermines the right of victims and their families to truth and justice;
The Congress of the International Federation of Journalists resolves to:
I. Request the IFJ Executive Committee to address a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Council, at its June 2026 session, to:
Assign an independent and impartial commission of inquiry into the killing of journalists and media workers in Lebanon from October 13, 2023 until the end of hostilities.
Grant this commission the necessary powers to collect evidence, hear witnesses and survivors, and legally document violations, for subsequent judicial proceedings.
Submit periodic and transparent reports presenting the findings of these investigations to UN bodies and international public opinion.
II. Request the IFJ Executive Committee to address, in coordination with UJLeb, a letter to the Lebanese authorities, inviting them to:
Conduct official and transparent investigations into the killing of journalists, as a crucial step enabling journalists and their families to exercise their legal rights.
Access the records of crimes against journalists since October 2023, and monitor the progress of official investigations or judicial proceedings.
III. Call on IFJ-affiliated unions and associations to:
Support the Union of Journalists in Lebanon in its legal endeavors aimed at prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes against journalists before the national courts of states applying the principle of universal jurisdiction, regardless of where the crime was committed or the nationality of the suspects.
Pressure their governments to take a clear stance and adopt concrete measures to fight impunity, including by supporting the establishment of an independent and impartial international commission of inquiry into war crimes committed against journalists before the Human Rights Council.
List of previous cases of Israeli targeting of journalists in Lebanon since October 2023:
October 13, 2023: Photographer Issam Abdallah was killed by a direct Israeli strike while performing his journalistic work in Alma El-Chaab, near Lebanon's southern border. Six other journalists were wounded, including AFP and Al Jazeera reporters, among them photographer Christina Assi, who lost her right leg consequently. This attack was documented by more than nine in-depth investigations conducted by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reuters (first and secondreports), AFP, and UN reports (UNIFIL and communications from special rapporteurs). All confirmed that the journalists were visible to Israeli drones, helicopters, and observation towers, and that there had been no exchange of fire for more than 40 minutes before they were targeted by two tank shells and machine-gun fire.
November 21, 2023: Al-Mayadeen correspondent Farah Omar, photographer Rabih al-Maamary, and their local guide Hussein Aqil were killed by a direct Israeli strike targeting their press team in Tayr Harfa, southern Lebanon.
October 25, 2024: Al-Manar camera operator Wissam Qassem, Al-Mayadeen camera operator Ghassan Najjar, and broadcast engineer Mohammad Reda were killed in their sleep by an Israeli raid targeting their location in Hasbaya, where several press teams were staying (Human Rights Watch, The Guardian).
For more information, please contact IFJ on +32 2 235 22 16
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Disappearing before our eyes: One photographer’s passion project of capturing local newsrooms
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NEW YORK (AP) — If you think the life of a journalist is glamorous, take a look at Ann Hermes’ photograph of Tom Haley from a winter day in Rutland, Vermont.
He scribbles in a notebook, leaning back in an office chair while dressed in ill-fitting khakis and a baseball cap. His left foot rests on the one portion of a desk not covered with clutter — piles of notebooks, a newspaper, printed reports and a lanyard hanging from a stray photograph. What could be a calendar hangs askew on the wall behind him. The drab blue carpet has seen better days.
Hermes is fascinated by things that evoke a time gone by or are about to pass into history. She has photographed the last Morse code station operating in North America and department store photo booths. Lately, she’s spent a lot of time in newsrooms like Haley’s Rutland Herald.
The Brooklyn-based photographer has. brought her camera into some 50 newsrooms across the United States, many in smaller towns and cities, to document places and lives endangered by the industry’s collapse over the past few decades. Already one of the newspapers she’s photographed, in Alameda, Calif., has shut down.
And she’s nowhere near done.
Photographer didn’t expect it to turn into a passion project
Even as someone who spent time in newsrooms herself professionally — Hermes worked for several years at the Christian Science Monitor — she didn’t anticipate it turning into such a passion project.
“I love these spaces,” she says. “I love spending time with these people. The more time I spent in newsrooms and hearing about their difficulties of life, it took on a different agenda. I couldn’t have spent so much of my free time on this if I didn’t enjoy it.”
Her photos dispel the notion that journalism is a prestigious job populated by elitists — certainly not at the local level. Here are working people in shabby surroundings, places that would make an office designer shudder. Post-it notes hang from a computer monitor. Pens, notebooks, boxes of paper are thrown into a bookshelf next to a half-empty bottle of whiskey. A carpet stain is left untended. A bottle of antacid pills sits on top of a microwave.
An empty metal organizer sits behind a sign saying, “stories to be written,” the product of a long-forgotten efficiency drive.
The New Yorker’s Zach Helfand captures it: “News people tend to pay their surroundings little mind. There’s too much to do and always a deadline looming. What you see hanging around these rooms isn’t designed but improvised, and more revealing.”
It’s not just newsrooms in danger of becoming obsolete. How often do you see newspapers anymore, particularly with news outlets shutting their printing presses and going digital? Yet they’re everywhere in Hermes’ photographs. Stuffed into cubbies, yellowing with age. A jumble of them in the back of a van. Stacked in piles — some toppled over, others on the verge. Some need to be stepped around.
Still more are in newspaper “morgues,” the term becoming more appropriate by the day. Cut-out articles are stuffed into cardboard files, the destination for research before the day most information could be found with a few computer strokes.
The history of a community is in these morgues, however. And when they’re gone, so are many of the memories contained within.
A belief in a civic duty — with maybe some fun
“This is really a love letter to local journalism,” Hermes says. “It’s not a ‘gotcha’ piece.”
She’s attracted to the “true believers” who stick with the line of work, putting up with the anger and ridicule of civic leaders who don’t like their judgments questioned, and the business realities that have driven many of their friends into different lines of work.
“The rewards are diminishing in doing this job,” she says. “You have to really believe in the fundamental civic service that you are providing. Otherwise, why else would you do it? It’s a really difficult job.”
Her work is available to see on her website, and she hopes one day to collect her newsroom photos in a book. She feels she’s gone beyond capturing images and into an advocacy role; she wants to do exhibitions in some of the communities that she’s visited to remind people about the importance of local journalism.
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Photographer Ann Hermes is fascinated by things that evoke a time gone by, or about to pass into history.
ILWU Shuts Down Northern California Ports on May Day; Socialist Kshama Sawant Challenges Rep. Adam Smith; Bayer Seeks Immunity Over Roundup as Protesters Rally at Supreme Court
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Socialist and former Seattle City Councilor Kshama Sawant is now running against Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, who has backed more military funding and wars abroad. She spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer.
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The ILWU Local 10 had a stop work meeting and shut down all ports in Northern California on May Day. They and other workers spoke out at a labor rally at their hiring hall in Oakland and on the streets of San Francisco during a May Day March.
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Monadel Herzallah of the US Palestinian Communities Network and Labor for Palestine shared a May Day message of solidarity with Palestinian workers on WBAI-New York’s Building Bridges. He spoke with host Mimi Rosenberg.
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Next we hear voices from a rally outside the U.S.Supreme Court on Monday, April 27th, where German chemical giant Bayer sought immunity from liability for harm caused by its widely used pesticide Roundup. Roundup is manufactured by Monsanto, which Bayer acquired in 2018. Its active ingredient glyphosate is suspected of causing numerous cancers among agricultural workers and others exposed to it.
Bayer’s lawsuit seeks to void all lawsuits brought against it by plaintiffs in state courts and send them to federal courts, a legal strategy that could result in billions of dollars of legal judgments being thrown out and plaintiffs being forced to either give up or start the legal process all over again.
Although glyphosate has been replaced by other chemicals in a Roundup formulation for residential home use, it is still widely used in large scale agriculture and industry.
This segment is courtesy of WPFW-Washington DC’s On the Ground, hosted by Esther Iverem, which aired it on Friday, May 1st.
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We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Thomas O’Rourke, Steve Zeltzer, and Polina Vasiliev. Special thanks to Esther Iverem and Mimi Rosenberg.
You can find this and all previous episodes at our website “capitalism race and democracy dot ORG”. Make sure you click the subscribe button. Follow us on X, formerly Twitter, @PacificaCRD.
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RICH PEOPLE by CARSIE BLANTON – Official Live Video
Fearless May Day
Internationale Palestinian Arabic
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