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Fain Aide Removed Over Death Threat Against UAW Prez Candidate - Argentine Ports Shut Down
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (692+ words) Greetings from the burgh, where Payday just put out a blockbuster 4,600 word multimedia story entitled “UAW Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock Talks Being Erased from UAW Scandal Coverage” This long magazine profile of Mock, the first Black female elected as UAW National…...
Lula to Trump: ‘No one will defeat us through lies’
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (710+ words) The following op-ed by Brazilian President Lula first ran in the Washington Post. Donate to help us cover the Brazilian presidential election this fall. A year ago, I was taken aback by the publication, on a digital platform, of a…...
Maine Senate Candidate Troy Jackson Led 1998 Loggers Blockade of US-Canadian Border
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (522+ words) Greetings from the Burgh, where I am recovering from a respiratory infection, sleeping odd hours while working on developments around Graham Platner, which raise questions about whether corporate Democrats will affect progressives in Maine with the US Senate in balance....
WATCH: Brazilians Immigrants Celebrate Festa Junina in Pittsburgh's Battered Mon Valley
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (389+ words) CLAIRTON, PA. - A few miles up the road from the US Steel Works on Old Clairton Road sits an old Mormon church nestled among a large yard and trees. The Mormon church looks like many churches in the Mon Valley,…...
Trump Tells Lula "I Love You" - 50,000 Germans to Strike Against Militarization - SoFi Stadium Workers Threaten Strike over ICE
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (777+ words) Greetings from the Burgh, where we are trying to bring back the Payday Report newsletter to three times a week. Bring Payday Newsletter Back to Three Times a Week In recent months, we haven’t been publishing the newsletter as much…...
As U.S. Automakers & Unions Pull Out of Brasil, Chinese Automakers & Sometimes Slave-Like Conditions Move In
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (1710+ words) SÃO PAULO, BRASIL - Last week, the Brazilian government put BYD, the super hip Chinese electric car maker, on “the list of shame” for employing workers in “slave-like conditions” at their new electric car plant in Camaçari, Brasil. The news sparked…...
Buffalo Immigrant’s Death Ruled a Homicide -- 70,000 LA Educator & Staff Poised to Strike -- Writers Guild Cuts Off Healthcare to Striking Workers
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (790+ words) Greetings from the Burgh, where we just released a moving piece about the death of Haitian immigrant Daphy Michel titled “After Death of Haitian Immigrant Daphy Michel, Pittsburgh Activists Build Community.” Also, watch our interview with Haitian poet Sony Ton-Aime,…...
After Six Weeks in Brasil, I Realized How Many People Are Cheering for Us to Beat Trump
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (502+ words) PITTSBURGH, PA - Greetings from the Burgh, where I just got back into town late last night after traveling more than 24 hours back from Brasil. I am gonna take the weekend off to catch up on some household stuff and get…...
Paul Skenes Boosts Militarism as US Bombs Iran
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (670+ words) As the United States military’s attacks overseas receive widespread condemnation, some American athletes are helping to shore up support for Trump’s militarism. After the United States won the gold medal in hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics, FBI Director Kash Patel…...
Kuwait Defense Contractors Complain about Lack of Bunkers - 24 Million Guest Workers at Risk in Gulf States - Global Unions Call for Ceasefire
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (759+ words) Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, where more than 70 have been killed in floods in Brasil. 70 Dead in Floods in Brasil This week, more than 70 people died in flooding that triggered mudslides in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Rainfall in…...