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Frito-Lay ordered workers in Topeka to move the dead body of their colleague when he died from exhaustion, and told them: “keep working”

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/frito-lay-worker-strike-topeka

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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/05/sober-minded-socialism/

Current Affairs

Sober-Minded Socialism

The left could learn a thing or two from Alcoholics Anonymous.

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Forwarded from Syndiegram (BeaTS 🐈‍⬛)

https://discourseblog.com/us-response-to-cuba-protests/

Discourse Blog

The U.S. Doesn't Actually Care About the Cuban People

U.S. politicians from across the spectrum have backed protests in Cuba. But let's be real: their support is about power, not human rights.

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https://www.noemamag.com/governing-in-the-planetary-age/

NOEMA

Governing In The Planetary Age

To overcome the twin crises of legitimacy and effectiveness created by planetary challenges, nation-states must delegate governance responsibilities up to planetary institutions and down to local ones.

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https://existential.cjr.org/whybother/aesthetics-right-wing-media/

Chapter 5: Why Bother?

The aesthetics of right-wing extremism

Right-wing extremist media—the fractured, disparate representation of communities with various degrees of fascist sympathies—has an essentially reactionary aesthetic.

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https://opiniojuris.org/2021/06/21/symposium-civil-liability-claims-for-business-related-human-rights-abuses-opening-new-frontiers/

Opinio Juris

Symposium: Civil Liability Claims for Business-Related Human Rights Abuses – Opening New Frontiers - Opinio Juris

[Ekaterina Aristova is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Carlos Lopez is a Senior Legal Advisor at the International Commission of Jurists.] Past decades saw an emerging trend towards reliance on civil liability claims to address…

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https://itsgoingdown.org/self-help-for-revolutionaries/

It's Going Down

Self-Help for Revolutionaries

This ‘self help’ guide is for those who participated in the uprising last summer and who are now navigating the changing terrain. While it is not clear what this summer will bring, we may be...

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https://criticallegalthinking.com/2021/06/17/on-israels-colonial-occupation-of-palestine-the-final-solution-without-end/

Critical Legal Thinking

On Israel’s Colonial Occupation of Palestine: The Final Solution Without End

Yet another ceasefire like so many others before it, in Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine; yet another death count for the archives of oblivion;

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Forwarded from Dead Lasagna (Kozy Raccoon)

"The long con is to get you to believe as deeply as possible that attaching your one infinitely precious self to these endlessly mass-produced mockeries of art and forming up a human shield around them is in fact a moral act."

https://defector.com/space-jam-a-new-legacy-is-a-hell-known-only-to-the-undead/

A bit off-topic, but it's worth stopping a second and pondering on the state of 'culture' today

Defector

'Space Jam: A New Legacy' Is A Hell Known Only To The Undead | Defector

It used to be that shitty movies won by getting you to buy the ticket, and would just accept the critical pounding to follow. That was the trade, and it was a fair one: We got to call garbage garbage, and from time to time we would admit to ourselves that…

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