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Share with a friend It’s Thursday, Apr. 24, 2025. Amie here. I saw a few “Free Kilmar” signs at the latest protest I covered this weekend, and for good reason: Folks are worried about what it means that the Trump administration is deporting people directly to a foreign torture prison with the flimsiest justification, and…

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. I went to the strike line at Cargill Corn Milling in Cedar Rapids last week, visiting with a few of the roughly 100 Teamsters-affiliated workers who have been on strike since Oct. 1.   And those workers kept coming back to one major issue: Respect.…

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate—arguably a progressive pick, given the laws Walz has signed as governor that have propelled Minnesota into an escape state for many of Iowa’s more liberal-minded folks.   But picking Walz also…

The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 24, 2024. Unless you were falling out of a coconut tree since Sunday, you already heard the news that President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, instead. (Democrats will officially decide…

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. This Monday is Labor Day, but only in the US and Canada (where it’s Labour Day). And, since this is the Worker’s Almanac, it’s more than a day off for us!   Most other countries celebrate International Workers’ Day, or May Day, on May 1…