Workers face off against rendering company in rural North Carolina Virginia-based Valley Proteins is one of the largest U.S. rendering companies, turning slaughterhouse waste like blood and bones into profits. Buoyed by the unionizing efforts of Amazon workers in Alabama, the company's drivers are organizing in North Carolina — and they've already won concessions. (4/16/2021) Read More > State legislatures across the South consider bills to expand voting Amid an unprecedented onslaught of legislation to restrict voting nationwide, legislatures across the South have also taken up measures that would make voting easier. Some of them have already passed into law. (4/21/2021) Read More > Mississippi high court could block medical marijuana and ex-felon voting rights A Mississippi city challenged a medical marijuana amendment that was overwhelmingly approved by the state's voters last year because of how the signatures to put it on the ballot were counted. A ruling in its favor would also end a new campaign to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions, along with any future amendment efforts. (4/22/2021) Read More > VOICES: The fixes to Georgia's voting restrictions await action in Congress Georgia lawmakers passed a slew of voting restrictions last month that put an especially heavy burden on young and Black people. The best hope to ensure the survival of democracy is for Congress to pass the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. (4/20/2021) Read More > |