May 13, 2022
Sidney's Picks: #Hillman22 Videos, Unions, & Democracy

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AFGE, Creative Commons, 2011.
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Check out videos of the 2022 Hillman Prize speeches!
- Unionized nurses are fighting hard, but terrible working conditions persist. (The Nation)
- What are unions doing to protect American democracy? (TNR)
- Diplomacy with a side of fraud: A Russian envoy dangled $500 billion fake dollars to entice Catalonian Separatists to break from Spain and become a cryptocurrency haven. (OCCRP)
- Trump lawyer John Eastman urged Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature to disenfranchise all PA voters by declaring the entire vote illegal and choosing Trump electors. (NYT)