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The May 1 strike is the latest in a wave of actions led by union and nonunion front-line workers. (...)
“These workers have been exploited so shamelessly for so long by these companies while performing incredibly important but largely invisible labor,” said Stephen Brier, a labor historian and professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. “All of a sudden, they’re deemed essential workers in a pandemic, giving them tremendous leverage and power if they organize collectively.”
The workers coalition will unveil a set of demands. Among them are:
- compensation for all unpaid time off used since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in March
- hazard pay or paid sick leave to be provided for the duration of the pandemic
- protective equipment and all cleaning supplies to be provided at all times by the company
- full corporate transparency on the number of cases in facilities.
The workers chose May 1, International Workers Day, as a signal to workers everywhere that collectively, they can take on corporate behemoth
theintercept.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-may-1-strike-sickout-amazon-target-whole-foods/
“These workers have been exploited so shamelessly for so long by these companies while performing incredibly important but largely invisible labor,” said Stephen Brier, a labor historian and professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. “All of a sudden, they’re deemed essential workers in a pandemic, giving them tremendous leverage and power if they organize collectively.”
The workers coalition will unveil a set of demands. Among them are:
- compensation for all unpaid time off used since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in March
- hazard pay or paid sick leave to be provided for the duration of the pandemic
- protective equipment and all cleaning supplies to be provided at all times by the company
- full corporate transparency on the number of cases in facilities.
The workers chose May 1, International Workers Day, as a signal to workers everywhere that collectively, they can take on corporate behemoth
theintercept.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-may-1-strike-sickout-amazon-target-whole-foods/
The Intercept
As Amazon, Walmart, and Others Profit Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Their Essential Workers Plan Unprecedented Strike
“If someone dies, they have blood on their hands.”
#podcast
theintercept.com/2020/04/29/viral-injustice-how-the-pandemic-is-unmasking-the-u-s-economic-racial-and-immigration-systems/
theintercept.com/2020/04/29/viral-injustice-how-the-pandemic-is-unmasking-the-u-s-economic-racial-and-immigration-systems/
The Intercept
Viral Injustice: How the Pandemic is Unmasking the U.S. Economic, Racial, and Immigration Systems
Writer Zak Cheney-Rice and journalist John Washington are this week’s guests.
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Happy May 1st comrades!
Joyeux 1er mai camarades!
Feliĉaj 1-a majo kamaradoj!
Счастливого 1-го мая, товарищи!
¡Feliz 1 de Mayo, camaradas!
رفاق سعيد 1 مايو!
五一快乐同志们！
Bealtaine 1ú Comrádaithe Bealtaine!
مبارک 1 مه رفقا!
Ευτυχισμένοι σύντροφοι του 1 Μαΐου!
Buon primo Maggio compagni!
1 मई को खुश हूँ!
Hevalên 1emîn Gulanê pîroz dikin!
Ka hari te hoa o Mei 1!
שמח 1 במאי חברים!
Fröhlichen 1 Mai Genossen !
Vrolijke 1 mei, kamaraden!
💥🏴👷♂️👩💻👨🏭👨🌾👨⚕️👨🎓👩🔧👩🔬👨🎨🚩🎉
Joyeux 1er mai camarades!
Feliĉaj 1-a majo kamaradoj!
Счастливого 1-го мая, товарищи!
¡Feliz 1 de Mayo, camaradas!
رفاق سعيد 1 مايو!
五一快乐同志们！
Bealtaine 1ú Comrádaithe Bealtaine!
مبارک 1 مه رفقا!
Ευτυχισμένοι σύντροφοι του 1 Μαΐου!
Buon primo Maggio compagni!
1 मई को खुश हूँ!
Hevalên 1emîn Gulanê pîroz dikin!
Ka hari te hoa o Mei 1!
שמח 1 במאי חברים!
Fröhlichen 1 Mai Genossen !
Vrolijke 1 mei, kamaraden!
💥🏴👷♂️👩💻👨🏭👨🌾👨⚕️👨🎓👩🔧👩🔬👨🎨🚩🎉
Another complete guide for Mutual Aid. There are also resources to download and stream movies at the end.
The guide itself was made for new-yorkers (espcially for the ones living in the Queens), but it can still be useful to anyone.
https://www.woodbine.nyc/mutualaid
The guide itself was made for new-yorkers (espcially for the ones living in the Queens), but it can still be useful to anyone.
https://www.woodbine.nyc/mutualaid
Woodbine
Mutual Aid — Woodbine
Mutual Aid information and resources in Ridgewood, Queens.
The current pandemic has brought to the fore, and with exceptional clarity, the fundamental contradiction underlying contemporary globalization, namely, the contradiction between the interests of finance and those of the people. Indeed this contradiction, which characterizes the era of globalization as a whole, has now come to a head.
http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/04/finance-versus-people-in-era-of-pandemic.html
http://www.socialisteconomist.com/2020/04/finance-versus-people-in-era-of-pandemic.html
Socialisteconomist
Finance versus the People in the Era of the Pandemic
✑ Prabhat Patnaik. From India to southern Europe, there is a stark urgency about reaching help to the people, but the hurdle against doing so is the one imposed by the dictates of finance.
#podcast
https://www.democracyatwork.info/acc_revolutionary_transformation_requires_collective_response
https://www.democracyatwork.info/acc_revolutionary_transformation_requires_collective_response
Democracy at Work (d@w)
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Revolutionary Transformation Requires a Collective Response
In this episode, Prof. Harvey argues that we cannot survive this viral crisis without a radical reconfiguration of the social and institutional arrangements.
#video
5:59 Chomsky:"last elections (reminder, it's '85) about 2/3 of Reagan's voters said that they hoped his policies weren't enacted"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZRsdHgxgA
5:59 Chomsky:"last elections (reminder, it's '85) about 2/3 of Reagan's voters said that they hoped his policies weren't enacted"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvZRsdHgxgA
YouTube
Bernie Sanders + Noam Chomsky: Deciphering Foreign Policy Jargon part 1/2
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Aired on May 20, 1985. Part II: https://youtu.be/52UwMTvMolc
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Aired on May 20, 1985. Part II: https://youtu.be/52UwMTvMolc
This video belongs to CCTV (http://www.cctv.org) and is published with permission under Creative Commons License CCTV Center for Media & Democracy Programming is licensed under…
Am I sending too much content (articles, essays, publications etc)?
Final Results
28%
yes, I'd like a bit less because I can't keep up
72%
No, you're doing fine