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Seth Sandronsky
Study Shows Blacks and Latinos Make Up Bulk of Temporary “Gig” Workers
02 Dec 2020
Eighty-three percent of blue-collar temp assignments are staffed by non-white workers in Illinois, a state where non-white workers are just 35 percent of the workforce.
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Sacramento’s Black Mayor and the Minimum Wage
17 Dec 2014
/*-->*/ by Seth Sandronsky If Kevin Johnson is “progressive,” then the term has become meaningless. The Sacramento mayor and charter school champion, husband of privatization zealot Michelle Rhee,…
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Cities of Opportunity? When Walmart and a Mayor Meet
17 Sep 2014
/*-->*/ by Seth Sandronsky The Black mayor of Sacramento, California, claims he runs an Opportunity City. But Kevin Johnson solicits big dollars from Wal-Mart, the anti-union megacorp, which is…
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Basketball Mayor Hypes School Privatization, Shoots An Air Ball
29 Oct 2013
by Seth Sandronsky Charter school operators and their political servants make bogus claims of educational gains – claims that are often passed along as fact by supposedly reputable media. Sacramento…
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Public Charter Schools Thrive on Corruption and Economic Turmoil
06 Jun 2012
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Remembrances from the Weather Underground: Reviewing Love and Struggle
18 Apr 2012
by Seth Sandronsky The Weather Underground waged armed struggle against the U.S. state and “white skin privilege” – a war that put David Gilbert in prison for life. “Gilbert’s memoir in part…
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Race-Making Nation
09 Feb 2011
A book review by Seth Sandronsky A review of How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, by David Roediger (Verso, hardcover, 2008). The author lays out…
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White as ‘Average’ and ‘Normal’
28 Feb 2007
by Seth Sandronsky If being white in America is "normal" then what are the rest of us? A recent Salt Lake City shopping mall shooting spree by a young white man described as "average"-looking once…
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Locking Up Surplus American Labor
13 Dec 2006
by Seth SandroskyUS prisons are where the labor force is going, argues Seth Sandrosky, and increasingly where manufacturers and investors are looking. Get ready for it.