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Sarah Lazare

@sarahlazare.bsky.social
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Editor of Workday Magazine, formerly In These Times.

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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ICE agents invaded a quiet suburban neighborhood in Frederick, MD, drove unmarked cars onto private property & hit/beat protestors exercising their Constitutional rights—all while local cops sat & watched. I spoke w/ an eyewitness who saw/filmed everything @therealnews.com: youtu.be/Iae_UZ1oQw0?...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"This year, several worker groups hosted democratic assemblies in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. New documents show how they were surveilled for Operation Puppet Master." by Amie Stager
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How Federal Agents Surveilled a Worker Assembly in Minneapolis - Workday Magazine
This year, several worker groups hosted democratic assemblies in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. New documents show how they were surveilled for Operation Puppet Master.
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Workday Magazine @workdaymagazine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year, several worker groups hosted democratic assemblies in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. New documents show how they were surveilled for Operation Puppet Master. workdaymagazine.org/how-federal-...
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How Federal Agents Surveilled a Worker Assembly in Minneapolis - Workday Magazine
This year, several worker groups hosted democratic assemblies in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. New documents show how they were surveilled for Operation Puppet Master.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Two documents, both submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota as exhibits in the case, are transcripts of recordings between two special agents and two unnamed undercover agents surveilling the worker assembly."
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How Federal Agents Surveilled a Worker Assembly in Minneapolis - Workday Magazine
This year, several worker groups hosted democratic assemblies in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. New documents show how they were surveilled for Operation Puppet Master.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On Feb 15, federal agents attended a worker assembly in Minneapolis. They talked about attendees in disparaging ways, and reported back what they observed. Amie Stager got ahold of documents proving the surveillance, and spoke with one of the people who was monitored without his consent.
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How Federal Agents Surveilled a Worker Assembly in Minneapolis - Workday Magazine
This year, several worker groups hosted democratic assemblies in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. New documents show how they were surveilled for Operation Puppet Master.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reminder: Dockworkers in France, Greece, Basque Country, Turkey, Morocco, and Italy are calling for strikes on October 30 “against war and militarization” and to protest “the genocide of the Palestinian people.”
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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide - Workday Magazine
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"This is a bad moment we are living in, but it’s going to be better because of the people that live here. I’m thankful to all those who prayed for me to come back, to join my family again."
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The Horror of Occupation, the Solidarity of Community: Minnesotans Testify on Operation Metro Surge - Workday Magazine
Workers and community members gave public testimony at the Convergence for Democracy about the human rights violations they experienced during Operation Metro Surge.
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Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now, Common Ground Collective and pro-school privatization interest groups are preparing to spend millions in the race for Chicago's first fully elected school board. If you live in a district where one of their 18 endorsed candidates are running, you're almost certainly being barraged by ads rn.
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Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sacks is also a major AIPAC donor, and Common Ground went on the warpath against progressives who helped pass a Jan. 2024 resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Then, last year, Sacks helped tank a tax on Chicago's largest corporations that could have brought in ~$82 million.
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Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why is this so concerning? Common Ground is a dark-money group backed by billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Sacks. Known as the "Rahm whisperer," Sacks was a behind-the-scenes advisor during the former mayor's school closings and privatization spree. chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...
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Emanuel critics push him to release 1,500 Michael Sacks emails
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Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now, Lenhof is benefiting from Common Ground spending some $37K—and counting—on ads backing her and spreading the same kind of misinformation about her opponent, former Chicago Public Schools bilingual teacher Debby Pope. Lenhof has also accepted money directly from Common Ground's PAC.
Campaign filings show that on 9/8/26, the Common Ground Collective spent $14,062.50 on digital ads supporting Kyna Lenhof and $4,687.50 on ads opposing Debby Pope. Campaign filings show that on 9/14/26, the Common Ground Collective spent $14,062.50 on digital ads supporting Kyna Lenhof and $4,687.50 on ads opposing Debby Pope.
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Rebecca Burns @rebeccaburns.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵The billionaire-backed Common Ground Collective was just caught electioneering at a back-to-school event for its endorsed candidates—including fundraising consultant Kyna Lenhof. NB: 6 months ago, Lenhof had this to say about another race where CGC was spending big to spread misinformation. 🤔
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
lovely review of THIS IS HOW WE WIN.
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New Book Explores ‘How We Win’
As the folk singer Ani DiFranco sings, “you gotta have the right tools for every job.” If the job is building a bolder, more militant labor and working-class movement, the May Day Strong coalition (of...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today, a coalition of orgs including Palestinian Youth Movement, Peace Action, and DSA, announced a campaign to "Drop the Genocide 20." They identify "the top 20 officials most responsible for promoting, lying about, and covering up the Gaza genocide in the Biden White House." dropthegenocide20.org
Head shot photos of Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk, David Satterfield, John Finer, John Kirby, Matthew Miller, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Karine Jean-Pierre, Barbara Leaf, Dorothy Shea, Jack Lew, Lloyd Austin, Samantha Power, Stephanie Hallett, Mira Resnick, Julieta Valls Noyes, Michael Kurilla, Uzra Zeya, Deborah Lipstadt
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The Horror of Occupation, the Solidarity of Community: Minnesotans Testify on Operation Metro Surge" - powerful reporting from Amie Stager.
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The Horror of Occupation, the Solidarity of Community: Minnesotans Testify on Operation Metro Surge - Workday Magazine
Workers and community members gave public testimony at the Convergence for Democracy about the human rights violations they experienced during Operation Metro Surge.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Go back to our stories! We are not the only ones to face hard times." Beautiful reflections from @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
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Why the stories working people tell ourselves about ourselves matter
“We are not the only ones to face hard times. Our ancestors who faced such times left us their stories so that we would know what to do now. Don't let those stories go to waste! There is power in them...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This piece includes some wonderful news. Eustaquio Orozco, a deeply respected worker organizer against wage theft, is now out of ICE detention. He is free and back in Minnesota with his family, and speaking out about what he endured. New report by Amie Stager. workdaymagazine.org/the-horror-o...
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The Horror of Occupation, the Solidarity of Community: Minnesotans Testify on Operation Metro Surge - Workday Magazine
Workers and community members gave public testimony at the Convergence for Democracy about the human rights violations they experienced during Operation Metro Surge.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 09/09/2026
By 2021, U.S. spending on post-9/11 foreign and domestic militarization had reached $21 trillion. @sarahlazare.bsky.social examined what those resources could have done to address climate change.
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Imagine If We Had Spent the Last 20 Years Fighting Climate Change Instead of the War on Terror
At the dawn of the new millennium, we directed our national resources in the exact wrong direction. But it's not too late to turn things around.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really enjoyed this conversation.
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Racket @racketmn.com · 08/09/2026
It's true: There's power in a union. racketmn.com/racketcast-e...
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RacketCast, Ep. 60: How Labor Wins Feat. Workday Magazine Journalists Sarah Lazare & Amie Stager - Racket
It's true: There's power in a union.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
During UAW's stand-up strike, autoworkers talked about their severe and debilitating pain from repetitive motion on assembly lines. They shared stories of back pain, surgeries, permanent disability. Such a reality shaped their economic arguments in their contract fight.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation" - by Greg Nammacher, president of SEIU Local 26. Really glad to see @labornotes.bsky.social reprint this excerpt from This Is How We Win.
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How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation
In this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted fr...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Really glad @workdaymagazine.bsky.social was able to reprint this piece from @labornotes.bsky.social.
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‘Treated Worse than Cattle’: 2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight - Workday Magazine
This article was first published by Labor Notes and is reprinted with permission. Ouano Tante worked the afternoon shift at the Tyson beef plant in Joslin, Illinois, for five years. But when she and h...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's excerpt from This Is How We Win.
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Eugene Debs Knew the Power Labor Holds
More than 100 years ago, the socialist leader taught us that working people make the world run—so we can remake the world, too.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When I was in Gary, Indiana, I heard incredible stories of communities coming together to get through the outage. In one example, a woman showed up and started cleaning a senior living complex, Serenity Lake, to honor her grandmother who had once lived there.
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Please consider coming to this event. Here is part of the description of what will be discussed: "A union at home and a union at work. Social housing that's union-backed and union-built." Register here: bit.ly/unions-for-all
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: How Organized Tenants and Organized Workers Can Team Up to Win Big. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
A union at home and a union at work. Social housing that's union-backed and union-built. That's the exciting vision that labor and housing organizers in many parts of the country are working together ...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When we are talking the structural neglect and abuse of Gary, Indiana residents, please keep this in mind. prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...
NIPSCO is a monopoly utility, under the umbrella of the company NiSource, and charges the highest rates of any electrical utility in Indiana. Blackstone, a private equity company, “has owned roughly 20 percent of NIPSCO since 2024 and has a senior managing director on NIPSCO’s board,” according to Matt Parr, communications director for the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. A 2023 report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project finds that, even before its involvement with NIPSCO, Blackstone performed poorly in wage and hour violations, and “led in total reported OSHA violation fines” out of 11 of the largest private equity employers. (Last spring, NIPSCO locked out 1,600 workers hailing from United Steelworkers Locals 12775 and 13796 in northern Indiana for more than a month.)

“With that level of involvement in an essential utility, customers deserve to know how Blackstone’s pursuit of the high returns it generates through its infrastructure investments will affect long-term spending on workers, maintenance, and reliability,” Parr added. “This storm didn’t create those questions, but the prolonged outages have made them impossible to ignore.”
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I talked to a man who got stuck in an elevator, a wheelchair user who had to go on his balcony and shout to ask for food, a woman who had to sleep in her chair because she couldn't use her COPD machine. The crisis in Gary is the product of structural neglect and racism, but also climate change.
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Majority Black Gary, Indiana lost electricity for 2 weeks. @sarahlazare.bsky.social visited the city, finding buildings reeking of rotten food, elderly residents trapped in their homes, & mass chaos. This is what happens when climate disaster meets institutional neglect: prospect.org/2026/08/28/g...
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, two weeks without power left disabled people stuck in their apartments, parents unable to use EBT cards to get food, elders without any ability to run medical equipment. People lost wages and groceries and were thrown into crisis. My report from a climate and humanitarian crisis.
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Gary, Indiana, which just had most of its power turned on after a 2 week blackout, is a story about structural neglect and racism, but it's also a story about the frontlines of climate change. My report from Gary on how the slow boil of climate chaos is accelerating.
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Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim - The American Prospect
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
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matthew cunningham-cook @matthewccook5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
gary gensler is just as responsible as merrick garland and tony blinken for the rise of Trump 2.0. just a naked refusal to confront the crypto industry, corporate fraudsters like Elon, and transparently corrupt governors like DeSantis with the securities fraud charges they so richly deserved
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“The Minnesota 15 case and others like it must be understood as an attempt to criminalize dissent, to make an example out of some of us so that all of us hesitate to exercise our rights to protect one another. We will not allow this to happen.”
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“A Manufactured Conspiracy”: Minnesota’s Labor Movement Denounces Federal Surveillance Operation - Workday Magazine
Leaders and workers respond to the federal government’s surveillance of organized labor and community in Minnesota.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@ahjohnson.bsky.social's book was banned from the Waverley library in Australia. Here's his response to false and libelous claims about his work, and his analysis of how press coverage of these claims has trafficked in tropes that dehumanize Palestinians.
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Coverage of My Book Being Banned Proves the Thesis of the Book
A library in Australia “removed” How to Sell A Genocide from its shelves, and the media’s coverage of it committed at least three of the tropes I document. Let us review them.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Read banned books. This one is outstanding. theconversation.com/how-to-sell-...
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How to Sell a Genocide has been removed from a library near Bondi – but libraries represent freedom of thought
It’s a library’s duty to balance representing its community with providing a broad range of books – including those that may challenge or discomfort.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“A Manufactured Conspiracy”: Minnesota’s Labor Movement Denounces Federal Surveillance Operation - by Amie Stager
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“A Manufactured Conspiracy”: Minnesota’s Labor Movement Denounces Federal Surveillance Operation - Workday Magazine
Leaders and workers respond to the federal government’s surveillance of organized labor and community in Minnesota.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Powerful quote from unionist and member of the Minnesota 15. The messaging coming out of Minnesota is so impressive -- focused on unity, solidarity, refusal to be intimidated. Reporting by Amie Stager. workdaymagazine.org/a-manufactur...
Treasure Thoreson is a teacher, executive board member at MFE Local 59, and one of the Minnesota 15. Thoreson spoke at the press conference about the food drives, fundraisers, grocery deliveries, and support that educators gave to their community all while continuing to show up to schools to educate students. “The government feels so threatened by our ability to come together and use our protected First Amendment rights, our legal rights as unionists that they feel they must surveil and disrupt. However, that to me is a signal that what we are doing is effective, impactful, and powerful,” she said. According to Thoreson, a GoFundMe that she donated to was flagged by DHS as evidence that she is part of a conspiracy.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“We are more determined than ever to stand up to our repressive government." Minnesota’s labor movement denounces federal surveillance operation, says it will not be intimidated. Important reporting by Amie Stager.
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“A Manufactured Conspiracy”: Minnesota’s Labor Movement Denounces Federal Surveillance Operation - Workday Magazine
Leaders and workers respond to the federal government’s surveillance of organized labor and community in Minnesota.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity" - excellent piece by Luis Feliz Leon.
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Federal Spies Hunt Minnesota Unions in Search of Conspiracy, But Find Solidarity
Yesterday news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of n...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"After six months in ICE detention, a Chicago tamale vendor rebuilds her life"
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After six months in ICE detention, a Chicago tamale vendor rebuilds her life
Laura Murillo’s arrest last fall represented a rupture for Chicago’s immigrant community and in the life she had built around work and caring for her daughters. Six months later, she returned home to ...
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and severe flooding are becoming commonplace, yet workers are often left unprotected, risking life and limb to earn a paycheck. Our own @jbozuwa.bsky.social shared her thoughts on this in a new piece by @sarahlazare.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com:
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Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse
As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“We know the truth, and we will not be intimidated." Unions and community orgs have released a statement responding to reports about federal surveillance of Minnesota's movements against ICE.
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Sign-on Statement: Community, Labor, Faith Groups Call for Solidarity as Federal Government Targets Minnesotans Who Organized Against ICE Violence
Please Note: Additional context may be added to the introductory paragraphs if new information is released, but only if necessary. Community, Labor, Faith Groups Call for Solidarity as Federal Gove...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
UPS drivers pulling 9-hour shifts in hazardous wildfire smoke. Food processing plant workers sweating in 95 degree temps. Nurses taking care of patients without running water in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Climate change is here and creating hostile conditions for workers. My latest.
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Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse
As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The big takeaway here is that normalcy is not the same as acceptance. Polling shows most people are worried climate change is hurting their health, and they want government to do more. Complacency is being imposed from above.
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We Can’t Surrender to Climate Destruction
Politicians and pundits are telling us to accept the escalating breakdown of our planet. We have to fight back.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wrote about the creeping normalcy of climate change, imposed by an elite that is institutionally unwilling to grapple with the stakes of what is happening, even as the climate crisis enters our lives, and our lungs.
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We Can’t Surrender to Climate Destruction
Politicians and pundits are telling us to accept the escalating breakdown of our planet. We have to fight back.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Dockworker unions in 6 countries, representing 40 ports, are calling for strikes and shutdowns in October 30 to protest war. The unions say, ​“We are ready to meet with organized groups of dockworkers and port workers from any other ports interested in becoming part of this common struggle.”
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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 12/08/2026
Dockworkers have refused weapons cargo, shut down ports and joined mass strikes to demand an end to the war on Gaza. On October 30, unions representing workers at 40 ports will act together. @sarahlazare.bsky.social reports.
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Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wow this is outrageous. Yikes! Really cruel to cut sick time, for parents and for everyone.
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
hi have you emailed my boss about sick time yet?
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Tell Noisy Creek the Chicago Reader Union deserves a fair contract
We, the Chicago Reader Union, have been bargaining a new contract with Noisy Creek management since February 2026. Despite our sacrifices and dedication, management has consistently put forward propo...
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ICYMI, read this excellent piece by Amie Stager: "Three Times Workers Resisted Fascism in Minnesota History"
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Three Times Workers Resisted Fascism in Minnesota History - Workday Magazine
Historical examples of workers resisting the oligarchical forces of fascism and authoritarianism.
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