The framework is there, should we choose to use it. By funneling resources to local union affiliates in coal- and oil-producing areas like Appalachia, Texas, North Dakota, Alaska, and New Mexico, and engaging with frontline communities, the AFL-CIO could get ahead of whatever’s coming next — whether that’s the passage of the Green New Deal, or, perhaps more likely, the continuing death of the coal industry. The union leaders were right to worry about the future, but their vision is too clouded by oil to see the burning forest. on and off since 2012. No matter what anyone says, a long-term relationship like that isn't something you easily walk away from. At this point, here's to hoping it was a clean breakup. Or who knows — maybe they're just going through a rough patch. At the end of the day, it's not over until they say it's over.Related: Outside of this relationship, I kept my identity to myself until 2014, when I came out to my close friends and family. I was starting a new chapter in my life. I was finally attending my dream school, and I was no longer living in a foster home. I felt like I was finally in control and that I would never allow anyone to take that control away from me. I was finally free. I started to organize with the Movement for Black Lives and it made me realize that queer black Muslims exist — in fact, they were living all around me. My confidence began to grow each time I was around people like me, people who I thought did not exist. Grier Low, who has been organizing with Tranzmission for the past seven years, says books will be rejected by prison staff for various reasons, such as “individual state restrictions, restrictions at the specific facility, and personal bias of the mail room staff.”In October,Truth Out