Crooked Bough News Round-up

— Corporations & AIPAC back O’Connor for mayor of Pittsburgh in Democratic Party primary

 

at 4/29/25 5:47pm

This election is critically important for Pittsburgh's working class.

[Category: Analysis, gentrification, housing, Immigration, Palestine, Pittsburgh, racism]

— Milwaukee judge’s arrest escalates Trump’s attacks on judiciary, due process and immigrants

 

at 4/28/25 11:48am

Democratic rights like due process were won by the mass movement of the working class.

[Category: courts, Immigration, Militant Journalism, Milwaukee, Wisconsin]

— NYC School Board elections: Why parents should vote & why the system is rigged so parents don’t

 

at 4/27/25 1:18pm

Before May 13, vote for candidates who want to empower parents and teachers.

[Category: Militant Journalism, New York City, racism, schools, Teachers' Struggle]

— Only socialism can solve the climate crisis!

 

at 4/27/25 9:10am

Since Trump came into office, we’ve seen a barrage of attacks on people and the planet

[Category: Analysis, Climate Crisis, Features, Trump billionaire coup, climate crisis, Trump, trump agenda]

— The billionaire agenda’s war on housing and the unhoused

 

at 4/26/25 3:45pm

Less than 100 days into his second term, Trump, emboldened by his billionaire backers, has begun dismantling hard-won, progressive policies that have been critical to the welfare of working-class families throughout the country for decades. 

[Category: Analysis, housing, Trump billionaire coup, billionaire agenda, government, housing and homelessness, US working class]

— Cuts to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aren’t about ‘efficiency,’ they are an assault on workers’ protections 

 

at 4/25/25 2:32pm

Attacks on agencies like the CFPB show Trump's real goal: to destroy any institution that protects working people from corporate plunder. 

[Category: Analysis, Features, Trump billionaire coup, government, u.s. working class]

— Texas voucher program, part of billionaires’ agenda, will defund public schools

 

at 4/25/25 9:40am

School vouchers are taxpayer funded subsidies given to families that send their children to private schools.

[Category: Analysis, Trump billionaire coup, education, texas]

— 48 years ago, a militant sit-in redefined the fight for disability justice

 

at 4/24/25 8:53pm

From April 5-28,1977, more than 100 people with disabilities sat-in at the Department of Health Education and Welfare in San Francisco demanding that the government enforce Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and significantly improve access to basic services for people with disabilities. 

[Category: Analysis, disability rights, Features, disability justice]

— State repression in the UK targets growing Palestine solidarity movement

 

at 4/24/25 7:32am

The UK is witnessing a major crackdown on the Palestine solidarity movement

[Category: Analysis, Features, Palestine, international solidarity, palestine]

— The right to water: A new front in Trump’s aggression on Mexico

 

at 4/23/25 11:14am

For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana. 

[Category: Analysis, Climate Crisis, Features]

— Facilities maintenance workers at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital unionize and fight against management’s retaliation 

 

at 4/23/25 10:57am

This marked the first-ever creation of a union at Piedmont Healthcare, the largest hospital system in the state.

[Category: Labor, Militant Journalism, u.s. working class]

— US maternal deaths rise by 27% in 5 years

 

at 4/22/25 10:12pm

In the face of spiking maternal death rates, Trump’s billionaire agenda only adds insult to injury.

[Category: Analysis, Features, health care, Women's Rights, racism, reproductive rights, women's rights, womens health]

— Wisconsin defeats Elon Musk’s candidate in state Supreme Court race

 

at 4/22/25 8:31am

This outcome shows that working people, when they collectively assert their strength, have the power to make change.

[Category: Militant Journalism, Wisconsin]

— Trump’s plan for the environment: Poison the air, pollute the water, and cash in while the world burns

 

at 4/22/25 7:03am

The people Trump chose to lead the most important government agencies related to the environment are cashing in on the destruction of the planet.

[Category: Analysis, Climate Crisis, Features, Trump billionaire coup]

— NYC public housing residents say: ‘We’re fighting to save our homes and our neighborhood!’

 

at 4/17/25 11:05am

They fight demolishing public housing and use public land, paid for by taxpayer dollars, for private development.

[Category: Analysis, gentrification, housing, New York City, public housing]

— Ten years after the murder of Freddie Gray

 

at 4/17/25 8:14am

Those who lived in Baltimore at the time will never forget the anger, grief, and revolutionary energy that permeated the city for those few weeks.

[Category: Analysis, Features, police brutality, racism]

— NYC family fights smear campaign against loved one killed by cops

 

at 4/16/25 11:34am

In the summer of 2012, Shantel Davis was shot and killed at the hands of the New York Police Department in her own neighborhood, but her killers were never charged for their crimes.

[Category: Militant Journalism, anti-racism, nyc, police bruatality]

— Myth vs. fact: Are cuts to trans health research beneficial to the working class?

 

at 4/15/25 6:24am

Great discoveries in medicine were made because marginalized groups were included in research.

[Category: Analysis, Features, health care, trans rights, Healthcare, lgbtq, science]

— How can we fix the tax system in the US? Abolish the billionaires!

 

at 4/14/25 7:03pm

The tax system should be a tool to make sure that programs for working people have the funding they need.

[Category: Analysis, Features, Trump billionaire coup, government, u.s. working class]

— No, Marco Rubio, Cuban doctors are not victims of ‘forced labor’

 

at 4/12/25 11:24am

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.

[Category: Analysis, Cuba, Features, health care, cuba, government, latin america]

— (Video) Trump wages tariff war on the world, but China won’t be bullied

 

at 4/9/25 9:33am

Last week, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on the rest of the world.

[Category: Analysis, China, Features, Trump billionaire coup, Video, china, government, u.s. working class]

As of 4/30/25 12:49am. Last new 4/29/25 7:20pm.