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'Building power among tenants, debtors, immigrants, prisoners, and, of course, workers, will allow us to resist the worst abuses of #surveillance capitalism.' thenation.com/article/shosha…
Just started Noura Erakat's book and it's so excellent. It's a critical study of the law's relationship to the colonization of Palestine & the Palestinian freedom struggle. It is relevant for anyone for whom the law has a place in oppression, & resistance, ie most of us. Check it out!
'There was a crisis, for sure, before Trump came to office, but the idea of the Trump administration, from the start, has been to overthrow Maduro.' democracynow.org/2019/5/1/econo… #Venezuela #USimperialism
#tdih Int'l. Workers' Day. Here are free lessons for teaching #laborhistory . Starting with 'Southern Tenant Farmers' Union' -- uniting tenant farmers: Black and white, women and men. #solidarity #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/sout…
The policies of the the 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunners are nowhere near adequate to address the magnitude of the #climatecrisis . Instead, we must look to the grassroots to ensure the survival of life on this planet. truthout.org/articles/none-…
“The Trump administration is openly engaging in a blatant effort to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. It is a campaign aimed at regime change and it’s being promoted openly as an opportunity to steal Venezuelan oil.” — jeremy scahill interc.pt/2FYvsfD
Trump and the GOP have slashed the #Census2020 budget even as the U.S. population grew in size and complexity, so that the Census Bureau's reach in non-urban, non-white areas is severely curtailed truthout.org/articles/trump…
The United States is commonly thought of as a low-tax country. But workers effectively pay some of the highest taxes in the developed world — without getting a decent welfare state in return. jacobinmag.com/2019/04/labor-… Matt Bruenig
' #Votingrights for incarcerated people should be a baseline—this should be wholly uncontroversial among all people who call themselves progressive.' truthout.org/articles/allow…