By Joe Maniscalco

From the time he was 12 until he was 21-years-old, Author John Hanson grew up hearing first-hand accounts about the 1934 Minneapolis general strike from his dad, an old time Wobbly and member of IBT Local 574’s Committee of 100 tasked with guiding the historic worker uprising to ultimate victory.

By Joe Maniscalco

Sixty-two-year-old Queens resident Marlene Urquhart spent seven years working round-the-clock shifts for a home care agency located on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn called 1st Help HomeCare.

The mother of four quit in March 2025 alleging 1st Help Home Care and its owner Rita Cohen owed her more than $260,000 in unpaid wages following the death of Urquhart’s primary patient that same year.

By Joe Maniscalco

What’s wrong with this picture?

Members of the largest and arguably most powerful public sector union in the City of New York can no longer afford to live in the city they serve—but the strongest opposition they face getting a contract they can live with this fall isn’t coming from the Office of Labor Relations [OLR].  

It’s coming from their own union leadership. 

By Jessica Peralta

Community Sentinel

IRVINE, CA — UCI MIND’s laboratory has 15 freezers and five refrigerators. They are packed — but not with food. 

About 1,200 brains are currently stored in those freezers and fridges.

Each sample represents a person who donated their brain to science with the hopes of helping future generations overcome neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease

By Steve Wishnia

Twenty-five years have passesd since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, but the maladies caused by the resulting poisonous dust continue to linger, and the survivors are aging.

By Joe Maniscalco

One-hundred-and-twenty-three summers have past since iconic workers’ rights activist Mary Harris “Mother” Jones led the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to New York City and Long Island.