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Images: ILGWU “Look for the union label!” Remember that little ditty on TV that promoted consumption of union-made goods and products? It’s good advice, whether you’re purchasing a car or appliance, clothing, food or drinks. Consumers have tremendous power to affect the common good by focusing their buying habits on union-made, union-grown, union-marketed products. Employers will eventually become more favorable to unionization when they see their unionized competition is gaining on them owing to popular favor. Maybe the same principle can be applied to organizations that solicit our ...

You Ain’t Got These. More Originals are expected to roll out on The Roku Channel later this year. The company revealed last month that it would be rebranding the 75 Quibi shows and documentaries it had acquired from the shut down streamer as Roku Originals. “As The Roku Channel grows, we will continue to be even more creative and expansive in sourcing great content that will perform well in a free, advertising-supported model, while delivering an array of incredible, quality entertainment for our users to enjoy,” Sweta Patel, Roku’s VP of engagement growth marketing, said in a stateme...

My New Orleans After nearly a year of Zoom happy hours and small shindigs on someone’s back porch, you and your best gals are probably ready for a proper “Girls Night Out.” You know, one that entails getting dressed up in a new outfit that no one has seen, and ordering an Über (because you are nothing if not responsible!) Perhaps table service at a restaurant you’ve all been eager to try, followed by out-of-the-ordinary – but safe – shenanigans, or merely a slice of respite from the rigmarole of everyday life. Plain and simple, you need a “Girls Night Out” that involves lots ...

Rolling Stone Mother’s Day Gift Guide: 34 Gifts to Order Online Right Now For Mom Even if you’re socially distancing and can’t make it to see mom, these gifts can be ordered and shipped in time for her big day By SOUL Electronics Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. You may be doing Mother’s Day from home this year, but your gifts for mom should be anything but homely. Whether you want to encourage...

From Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States— Classic Archives: The Gulf of Tonkin con job and other covered up facts by mainstream media and historians Hal Ashby's Coming Home, with Bruce Dern and Jane Fonda among the leads was a powerful statement about the effects of the war in Vietnam on the home front. From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country—and failed. When the United States fought...