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• The hero of this tale is David Ruggles, an extraordinary man. In 1835, at the young age of twenty-five, Ruggles founded the New York Committee of Vigilance, an organization that functioned as a public-facing component of the Underground Railroad in New York City. As far as we know, he was the first black person to edit a magazine and own a bookstore in the United States. He wrote political commentary and satire; spoke at meetings; suffered abuse, violence, and imprisonment; confronted slaveholders in person; and risked his life and his freedom to ferry hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. Commonplace
  
  
• Declaring that understaffing had them “running on empty,” 5,000 nurses, doctors, midwives, and nurse practitioners walked off the job January 10 in an open-ended strike at Providence Health and Services, the dominant hospital chain in the Pacific Northwest. Labor Notes
  
  

• Bulldozers, those agile, yellow caterpillar-track hoes, we watch transforming towns, farms, deserts and suburbs worldwide. But how many of us have seen an Israeli bulldozer at work? Many Palestinians for certain, as they rush this way and that to grab furnishings, documents and clothes from their homes before these redoubtable machines demolish their dwellings. Counter Punch

• Climate science deniers are lining up a political offensive in Britain after a US lobby group opened a UK branch which is already working with Nigel Farage. The Guardian