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South to South: A Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 16, 2024December 26, 2024

As we wrap up a year of witnessing and resisting the ills of this fascist global restructuring, we offer a reading list of this year's South to South pieces in hopes that they ignite revolutionary light in these dismal times. 

Tied Employment as Plantation Labor
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Tied Employment as Plantation Labor

by Likam Kyanzaire August 27, 2024August 27, 2024
Having spent the first wave of COVID-19 in Rikers Island, David Campbell found the pandemic lockdowns he was met with after his release strangely familiar. The parallels of self-quarantine and incarceration can be tools for abolitionist solidarity.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What living through COVID in jail taught me about abolition

by David Campbell September 21, 2023September 21, 2023
Prison workers making uniforms at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) Rehabilitation stops being a priority for officials when it conflicts with prison labor—abruptly shutting down programs, citing labor costs.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Profitable Prisoner

by Antoine Davis September 6, 2023September 5, 2023
"What Things Cost: An anthology for the people." Edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul. Published by The University Press of Kentucky.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

An anthology for people over capitalism

by Katherine Webb-Hehn July 19, 2023July 19, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'We apologize for the inconvenience': The unsightliness of labor at the Blanton's 'Day Jobs'

by Julie Poole May 11, 2023May 16, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

New Orleans has a trash problem. Thanks to climate change, your city probably will, too.

by Drew Hawkins December 3, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Scenes from the picket line: Kellogg workers on why they went on strike for two months straight

by Jason Kerzinski November 5, 2021December 3, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

You're swamped? Join the club.

by Ko Bragg and Virginia Walcott September 17, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A principal leaves his beloved school after an intense year

by Katy Reckdahl and The Hechinger Report August 24, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The incalculable cost of cheap chicken—and the hidden industry that shoulders it

by Tina Vasquez July 20, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

To the other 98%: Lessons from the nation's Black male educators

by Letrell Harris & Horace Ryans May 14, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The BAmazon Loss and the Road Ahead

by Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Alabama taxpayers have paid $4 billion toward a policy that Governor Ivey refuses to bring home

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 16, 2021March 29, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The majority of Alabamians want Medicaid expansion

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 15, 2021March 29, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Labor organizing from the Olympic podium

by Hannah Borenstein October 9, 2020November 13, 2023
Nurses at HCA's Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Photo from the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Asheville nurses reflect on the largest labor victory at a Southern nonunion hospital since 1975

by Zaina Alsous September 25, 2020November 16, 2022
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Campus workers in the right-to-work South are fighting for COVID-19 conditions and beyond

by Mindy Isser September 16, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Q&A: Ajamu Dillahunt, long-time civil rights organizer and former USPS union president

by Jonathan Michels September 7, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Black New Orleans City Waste workers build power against a crisis

by Mindy Isser June 17, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Pay the Players: Racial equity and recognition in the NCAA

by Daniel Johnson May 26, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'Essential, Not Expendable'—Child care workers on the frontlines of COVID-19

by Stell Simonton May 1, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

COVID-19: Strategies for workers from organizers and experts

by Lovey Cooper March 31, 2020August 2, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor

by Carly Berlin March 24, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

NC workers making sub-minimum wage could get a boost on Super Tuesday

by Anna Simonton March 3, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Queer South: Where the past is not past, and the future is now

by Minnie Bruce Pratt January 27, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In spite of victory on the field, NCAA football players continue to fight off the field to receive their due

by Daniel Johnson January 14, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Winning labor rights in the South means changing state laws

by Carly Berlin January 13, 2020April 30, 2021

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