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GameStop and Share Markets:
Between the Bad and the Ugly, There is No Good
Harry Glasbeek
The recent GameStop story coming out of the US pushed arcane financial dealings into a prominence they rarely enjoy. The public was introduced to weird concepts such as “short selling and short squeezes” and, for a while, they are likely to be part of many zoom conversations. Not least because, whatever
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Posted on Feb 16, 2021 01:09 pm
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Why Amazon Is Fighting So Hard to Stop Warehouse Workers From Unionizing
Sonali Kolhatkar
Thousands of warehouse workers at an Amazon plant in Bessemer, Alabama, are at the center of a potentially game-changing union vote taking place right now. On February 8, the warehouse workers were sent ballots by mail to decide over the next seven weeks if they want to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department
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Posted on Feb 15, 2021 02:03 pm
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The Politics and Geopolitics of the Coup in Myanmar
Vijay Prashad
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military – known as the Tatmadaw – invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and other members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Condemnation of the coup was swift, although there would be reason for hesitancy in the reaction:
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Posted on Feb 14, 2021 01:26 pm
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Community Helps to Sustain Portland’s Ongoing BLM Protests
April M. Short
At any given Black Lives Matter (BLM) event in Portland, you might encounter what looks like a farmers market stand, with woven baskets full of fresh veggies, fruits and flower cuttings. Look a little closer and you might come across an “Abolish the Police Lettuce Mix” or a fruit basket with a hand-painted sign that reads
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Posted on Feb 13, 2021 12:38 pm
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Posted on Feb 12, 2021 08:59 pm
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Contradictions of "Artificial Intelligence" in 21st Century Capitalism
Sunday, February 14th 2:00 PM (EST)
Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments, begun by Marx, remain fragmentary and contested. Yet the crises that twenty-first century digital mechanization presents and exacerbates may shed new light on this longer history of automation even as they confront the left with fresh puzzles.
This talk proposes three responses to these challenges. 1) It may be more useful to movement organizing to stress continuities between industrial-era and digital-era value-creation than to focus only on differences. 2) The contradiction between living and dead labor that Marx identified not only persists in today's digital economy, but also remains fundamental both to understanding crisis and to identifying possibilities for radical political change. 3) It may make more strategic sense for
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Posted on Feb 12, 2021 08:33 pm
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r1Paov,
We’ve been getting to know each other for a while. That’s why we’re sending you a Valentine’s candy – to thank you for all that you do for the environment.
But hey! Let’s take our relationship to the next level. We can make an even greater team with your gift today. We need you more than ever.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Your West Coast Environmental Law team ...
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Posted on Feb 12, 2021 07:01 pm
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New report on human rights defenders
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 New report documents that 331 human rights defenders were killed in 2020 … Read more...  PBI-Canada encourages Foreign Minister Marc Garneau to read US civil society letter to Antony Blinken on human rights defenders
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Posted on Feb 12, 2021 03:37 pm
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In this edition, we bring you some reasons to keep fighting, and some reasons to be hopeful.
So here we are: we made it through the first month of 2021. Many of us had unprecedented struggles to face in the year 2020, and many of us had to adapt the way we lived, interacted and fought for climate justice. If there is one thing that is abundantly clear, it is that no matter how far apart we may feel, we can’t win this fight alone. In the first month of 2021, the world has faced increased climate disasters and injustice, but it has also seen some amazing wins for people power.
In this edition, we
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Posted on Feb 12, 2021 01:44 pm
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