National Guard

2,300 Armed National Guard Troops Deploy in Washington DC Carrying M17 Pistols and M4 Rifles

| Importance: 9/10

Over 2,300 National Guard troops from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Ohio, Louisiana, and Tennessee began patrolling Washington DC streets carrying M17 handguns and M4 semiautomatic rifles, marking an unprecedented militarization of the nation’s capital during peacetime. The armed …

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Trump announces federal takeover of DC police citing Coristine attack

| Importance: 9/10

Trump announced federal takeover of Washington DC police department and deployment of National Guard, using the assault on Edward Coristine as justification. Trump stated he was considering “having his administration take over the DC Police Department” and bringing in National Guard. …

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Hormel Strike Broken Through Permanent Replacement, Ending Pattern Bargaining in Meatpacking

| Importance: 8/10

United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-9 workers at Hormel’s flagship Austin, Minnesota plant strike against wage cuts from $10.69 to $8.25 per hour, seeking to maintain the meatpacking industry’s traditional “pattern bargaining” where major companies matched union wage …

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Great Mississippi Flood Exposes Racial Labor Exploitation and Plantation System

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The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in American history, inundates 27,000 square miles across seven states and displaces approximately 700,000 people, disproportionately affecting African Americans in the Mississippi Delta. The disaster response, coordinated by …

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