Chelsea Manning, Ronan Farrow and Ta-Nehisi Coates on Terror and Bravery
Alexandra Spring and Steph Harmon, Guardian UK Excerpt: "At the Sydney Opera House's Antidote festival, there were calls for courage, warnings about surveillance and lashings of political gossip." READ MORE Neil Gorsuch. (photo: David Zalubowski/AP)
The Sorry State of Labor in 2018
Rebekah Entralgo, ThinkProgress Entralgo writes: "If the Trump economy is so great, why are so many people working full-time, but living paycheck to paycheck?" READ MORE Rob Hurst, manager of Edgartown Commons on Martha's Vineyard, has had to scrub bathrooms this summer because five Jamaican workers who had long worked at the hotel couldn't get visas. (photo: Elizabeth Cecil/NYT)
In Limiting Immigration, Trump Is Hurting Business, Companies Say
Nelson D. Schwartz and Steve Lohr, The New York Times Excerpt: "The Trump administration is using the country's vast and nearly opaque immigration bureaucracy to constrict the flow of foreign workers into the United States by throwing up new roadblocks to limit legal arrivals." READ MORE Thousands came to the #Allin4Respect rally in downtown Los Angeles in May, part of the lead-up to the strike. (photo: UTLA Facebook)
In a Historic Move, Los Angeles Educators Vote to Strike
Jane McAlevey, In These Times McAlevey writes: "Today teachers and education workers in Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the country (after New York), voted 98 percent to 2 percent to authorize their first strike in nearly 30 years." READ MORE Boots Riley. (photo: YouTube)
Boots Riley on His Anti-Capitalist Film "Sorry to Bother You," the Power of Strikes and Class Struggle
Democracy Now! Excerpt: "Riley's dystopian social satire is being hailed as one of the best movies of the summer." READ MORE A Palestinian refugee student sits inside her classroom as she attends the first day of a new school year, at one of the UNRWA schools, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sept. 3, 2018. (photo: AP)
UN Schools for Palestinians Defy Funding Cuts, Open on Time
Associated Press Excerpt: "United Nations schools for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon started the new school year on time on Monday, despite the U.S. decision to cancel funding to the international body's Palestinian relief agency." READ MORE Polar bears in Kaktovik, Alaska, within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (photo: Josh Haner/NYT)
Here's Why Capitalism Can't Fix Climate Change
Stan Cox, YES! Magazine Cox writes: "While capitalist economies are able to spin off improved renewable-energy systems or energy-efficient technologies, they're even better at producing new energy-consuming technologies and products - and those are getting cheaper, too." READ MORE |
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