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July 18, 2026

Today in 1944
Two ammunition ships explode at Port Chicago, Calif., killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work underpinned the trial and conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny.

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The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer
Posted On: May 05, 2025
May 5, 2025 | ORGANIZING | If democracy in the United States is to be preserved and extended, then we need to honor those whose efforts are indispensable to building the one institution that truly stands as a bulwark against economic powerlessness and political defeat: the labor union. Labor organizers are essential to the growth of the union movement, but even more importantly, they demonstrate something at the heart of working-class life — how ideas and determination can be transformed into collective power, essential for the advancement of democracy itself, in the workplace and society at large. In These Times
 
 
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