At the largest private university in the country, non-tenure-track faculty teach about a quarter of all courses.
Earlier this year, nearly 1,000 of them went on strike and won what their union says are the highest minimum salaries for unionized full-time non-tenure-track faculty in the U.S.
Cages, restraints, and guards are not the elements of a therapeutic environment.
Stop Criminalization of Our Patients is challenging Fulton County’s latest proposal: a 1,800-bed “special purpose facility” intended to incarcerate people with mental health conditions.
In These Times
In These Times
Really fantastic @inthesetimes.com longform feature on the activists fighting the explosive growth of the prison industrial complex.
inthesetimes.com/article/no-n...
The gambling economy has a familiar rule: The house always wins.
@hadasthier.bsky.social writes, a Bloomberg analysis found that most profits on Polymarket went to a tiny slice of accounts that appeared to be automated bots. Everyone else lost $131 million in aggregate.
s. e. smith
In These Times
I interviewed Prof. Remes, a leader in the union affiliated with @uaw.org which recently won HUGE raises and job security after organizing and going on strike this spring. Shows the way for other academic workers @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aflcio.org @lawcha.bsky.social
Data center opposition is creating unlikely coalitions.
Paul Messersmith-Glavin reports that union activists & anarchists are coordinating with neighbors who have Trump signs in their yards, united by concerns about rising bills, water use, & noise pollution.
inthesetimes.com/article/data...
Data centers are consuming enormous amounts of water and energy, driving up utility bills and threatening local ecosystems.
Across the country, Indigenous organizers, union members, anarchists and rural Trump voters are finding common cause in fighting back.
In These Times
In These Times
We got a great Sam Wallman cover for the latest issue of In These Times
