A Working Earth, a Decent
Life: What Maine’s Climate
Plan Looks Like…
CLIMATE POLICY · CLEAN ENERGY · LABOR
A Working Earth, a Decent Life: What
Maine’s Climate Plan Looks Like From
the Job Site
It was 93 degrees in Lewiston the
day Ray Arsenault realized the mill
job was never coming back. The
building was still there—hollowed
out, windows bricked, weeds through…
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The Line Has Moved
POLITICAL POWER · WAR AND SECURITY · LAW AND COURTS
Federal troop deployments in the
U.S. have historically oscillated
between suppressing dissent and
protecting civil rights, revealing.
They didn’t knock.
In 1894, federal troops rolled into
Chicago—not to defend the
Constitution, but to put workers
back in line. George Pullman had cut
wages but kept rents high in his
company-owned housing. When his
laborers protested, he fired them.
When the American Railway Union…
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