January 10, 2020
Sidney's Picks: 150 Million Indians Strike, Hong Kong Workers Flock to Unions, and Parrots are Communists
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Papooga, Creative Commons: Baby African Grey parrots sharing some strawberries.
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January 3, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Climate Change Super-Charges Wildfires, Racist Cop Out
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Ninian Reid, Mallacoota, Australia, Jan 2, 2020, Creative Commons.
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December 27, 2019
Happy New Year from the Sidney Hillman Foundation!
December 20, 2019
Sidney's Picks: RIP Philoine Hillman Fried (1917 - 2019)
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Philoine Hillman Fried. Courtesy of the Hillman family.
- It is with great sadness that we report that Sidney Hillman’s daughter, Philoine, passed away on Sunday. Deepest condolences from all of us at the Sidney Hillman Foundation. She was a remarkable woman and we will miss her.
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December 13, 2019
Sidney's Picks: Democracy Grief, KY Pardon Binge, Scooter Union
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December 6, 2019
Sidney's Picks: Mayor Pete, McKinsey, and Trump's Invisible Wall
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November 22, 2019
Sidney's Picks: Deadly Quartz Countertops, Google's Union-Busting, Wyo. GOP Eats Itself
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November 19, 2019
2020 Hillman Prizes: Call For Entries on Now!
Attention journalists, editors, and awards coordinators, the call for entries for the 2020 Hillman Prizes in Journalism is on now!
The Hillman Prizes honor investigative journalism and commentary in service of the common good.
Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
- Book
- Newspaper
- Magazine
- Broadcast
- Web
- Opinion & Analysis
Each prize consists of a $5000 honorarium and travel to New York City to attend the awards ceremony.
Deadline for applications is January 30, 2020.
Click here for full details and to enter.
November 15, 2019
Sidney's Picks: The Religious Right, the Bolivian Coup, and Uber's Big Tax Bill
The Best of the Week’s News:
- U.S. Ambassador assails ProPublica reporter over story about Mike Pence favoring Christian groups for foreign aid.
- Anti-choice grifter bilks city of Austin out of $1.6 million that should have gone to women’s health care.
- Fundamentalist Christian legislators have seized Bolivia in a coup and unleashed a wave of anti-indigenous violence.
- New Jersey hits Uber with $640 million tax bill for misclassifying employees as contractors.
November 8, 2019
Sidney's Picks: Life in the Shadows, ParaSites, and Jim Jordan
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