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Anything-and-Everything Socialism
9 min · · Identity politics redirects radical energy away from the elites who promote it—a point illustrated by the 2022 Socialism Conference with rare clarity. · Shared by 21, including Brian Leiter https://universeodon.com/@BrianLeiter, Rick Powell
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Briahna Joy Gray: Elites' Identity Politics ATTACK On Student Debtors
· Briahna Joy Gray makes the case that elites have weaponized identity politics to take down student debt cancellation. #StudentLoans #IdentityPolitics #Elite ... · Shared by 4, including Rick Powell
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Why Taxation Is Not Theft
7 min · · by Thomas R. Wells The idea that ‘taxation is theft’ is one of those thrilling, paradigm shifting recognitions that are continually being rediscovered and shared. It is a classic case of pseudo… · Shared by 5, including Rick Powell
Civil Eats
The Next Frontier of Labor Organizing: Food-Delivery Workers
2 min · · Groups like Los Deliveristas Unidos are organizing delivery workers at Doordash, Uber Eats, and other apps who are demanding better working conditions, despite a lack of employee protections—and often… · Shared by 15, including Philanthropy News Digest, Rick Powell
Nieman Lab
Alongside a subscriber-only investigation on eviction, USA Today publishes a free graphic novel
4 min · · Shared by 38, including Nieman Foundation, Rick Powell
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Here’s How We Beat Amazon
12+ min · · Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it. · Shared by 30, including Rick Powell, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
The Guardian
Protesters surround and block immigration van from leaving after Glasgow raid
3 min · · Standoff unfolded after detentions during Eid al-Fitr in apparent escalation of hostile environment policy · Shared by 82, including Guy Longworth, Rick Powell, Brad Brooks, Ray Monk, Steve Portigal 🇨🇦🇺🇸, Prof. Devi Sridhar, Sarah Fine
VICE
Secret Amazon Reports Expose Company Spying on Labor, Environmental Groups
17+ min · · Leaked documents reveal Amazon's reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on workers and its extensive monitoring of labor unions and social movements. · Shared by 307, including luis antónio santos, DHH, Matthias Lampe, Thomas Wong, pkashwan.bsky.social, hakan, Steve Faktor, Luca Like, Rick Powell, Carolyn Porco, Katja Evertz, Azeem Azhar, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
Behavioral Scientist
#ChecksChecksChecks: Why We Need a Universal Basic Income Now
4 min · · We need to act fast. Americans who rely on hourly wages and tips are already facing restrictions on their ability to earn an income. · Shared by 46, including Aline Holzwarth, Dave Nussbaum, Rick Powell, Scott Santens, Trey Tweets Into the Void
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There Is No Outside
8 min · · The emergency room is a smog of coronavirus—and how could it not be? A person on a bed deprived of even the modesty of a curtain can’t be expected to keep a mask on for the eight or twelve hours they… · Shared by 12, including Naomi Klein, Rick Powell