#UniversitiesAreBastionsOfSettlerColonialBrainwashing: On Dec. 15, IU suspended Sinno from teaching until the upcoming fall semester for violating university policy when he filled out a room reservation form for an event with Israeli American speaker and pro-Palestinian activist Miko Peled. Sinno reserved the room for the Palestine Solidarity Committee, which he was the faculty advisor for before his suspension.

#ExceptForPalestine #1984 #BullshitJobsStartWithBullshitScooling #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #Gaza #GenocideJoeKnows

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/01/faculty-iu-violated-university-policy-abdulkader-sino-suspension

Faculty say IU violated university policy in Abdulkader Sinno’s suspension

Sinno was suspended for filling out a form incorrectly, according to IU administrators.

Faculty say IU violated university policy in Abdulkader Sinno’s suspension - Indiana Daily Student

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/02/money-flows-into-ex-san-jose-mayors-bid-for-house-seat-in-silicon-valley-00133526

Sam Liccardo has excellent accomplishments to show- dense towers and walkable downtown, Net Zero Carbon buildings by 2030, programs for homeless including tiny homes and bridge interim housing, adopted builders option for the housing element, separated bike lane network, 15mph zones around schools, ended parking minimums and LOS, started San Jose Clean Energy, fierce and leading critic of PG&E in the state, begun process for microgrid downtown for 25,000 new residents, #15minuteneighborhoods (71), liability insurance requirement for gun owners, and brought money and program to preserve Coyote Valley. Still needs to work on Jobs Housing Balance, social housing, speed cameras, youth employment, and high speed public broadband. Best examples- two single family homes downtown will be replaced by a 600 unit tower with almost no parking and buying the transmission line for the microgrid.
#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs

Money flows into ex-San Jose mayor’s bid for House seat in Silicon Valley

Sam Liccardo reports raising $1.65 million in the fourth quarter, just weeks after announcing his entry into a crowded field in a rare open Bay Area seat.

POLITICO

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/on-white-supremacy-and-zionism-a-reflection-on-claudine-gays-tenure-as-president-of-harvard-university/

#GenocideJoeKnows: one glaringly obvious truth persists: #Harvard (on the traditional sacred and ancestral land of the Massachusett)will always protect #whitesupremacy. In suppressing pro-Palestine students, President Gay was doing the job of a Harvard president (profiting from donors who accumulated wealth through slave trading (Epstein), plantations, machiladoras, textile sweatshops worked by people in various levels of bondage) and carrying out the University’s commitment to white supremacy. But ultimately, when she failed to do this well enough, she became a victim (scalped in the words of supremacists) of the same racism she had tried to uphold. The interdependency of anti-Black racism and Zionism cannot be more clear than through President Gay’s tenure and resignation- Aaryan Morrison
#ZionistProjectProtectsCarbonBombShippingLanes
#AmericansLearnGeographyFromForeverWars
#ApartheidIsThePoliticsOfRacistTropes
#BidenAustinBlinkenAreWMDs
#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs

On white supremacy and Zionism: a reflection on Claudine Gay’s tenure as president of Harvard University

Anti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.

Mondoweiss

https://truthout.org/articles/biden-is-paying-growers-to-replace-farmworkers-with-bracero-contract-labor/

#GenocideJoe subsidizes MAGA supporting white farmers despite unemployment in farmworker communities being higher than in urban areas! Because #BigAgro’s been intent on keeping wages extremely low. The Bracero Program was abolished due to widespread abuse — one of the main achievements of the Chicano civil rights movement. But even at its height, the U.S. government never actually paid #settlers to bring in workers.

#farmworkers #precariousemployment #laborexploitation #dehumanization #PesticideExposure #InsufficientAccessToHealthcareAndSocialBenefits
#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs

Biden Is Paying Growers to Replace Farmworkers With Bracero Contract Labor

Under the new visa pilot program, the administration is prioritizing growers’ profits over farmworkers’ rights.

Truthout

https://theintercept.com/2023/12/04/nebraska-senate-dan-osborn-deb-fisher/

#ProgressiveSenate: Despite respondents favor #TFG over #GenocideJoe by a margin of 16.

Osborn’s slight edge in the poll — 40 percent to Fischer’s 38 percent — comes despite 59 percent of respondents saying they had never heard of him before.

#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs

Shock Poll Shows Independent Nebraska Union Leader Beating Republican Senator

With Senate control hanging in the balance, Nebraska Democrats are considering backing Dan Osborn in his challenge against Sen. Deb Fischer.

The Intercept

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-malawi-labourers-farms-shortage-workers

#BidenNailsUNCoffin: HRDC also raised concerns about a report in The Guardian revealing that some migrant workers were unable to return home to their families after the October attacks because they were riddled with debt from high fees – sometimes tens of thousands of dollars – they were made to pay by recruitment agencies before travelling to work in Israel.

#PlanetOfSlums #IronDomeForTheRich #surveillancecapitalism #WaterUseConflict #Afluenza #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #EmissionsInEquality

Malawi sends labourers to Israeli farms amid shortage of workers

As Israel reels under a labour crisis sparked by the exodus of foreign workers, Malawi steps in to help following aid package

Middle East Eye

Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/chinese-prisoners-id-card-apparently-found-regatta-coat-lining-derbyshire?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#PrisionLabour: You don’t expect it from [Regatta]. It’s a UK brand that’s up there with Next, with M&S, that you put your children in their clothes … and this happens, and it just makes you feel really uneasy and uncomfortable… Produced by the Ministry of Justice prisons bureau.

#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #AbolishPrisonsAbolishPolice

Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

UK brand says investigation shows individual was paid employee, not inmate, as Derbyshire customer raises concern over prison labour [update - see footnote]

The Guardian

#AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs: Through a combination of union power and a protracted legal battle, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) has clawed back $328 million in #stolenwages from Uber and Lyft for over eighty thousand drivers throughout the city.

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/new-york-cab-drivers-wage-theft-suit-gig-work-organizing?mc_cid=6712a50319&mc_eid=d89295516f

NYC Cab Drivers Just Sued Uber and Lyft for Hundreds of Millions in Unpaid Wages

Uber and Lyft have made profits by exploiting their ambiguous legal status to avoid paying workers billions in wages, but taxi unions recently sued the corporations for millions. Their victory is part of a broader wave of worker attacks on the gig economy.

The Conversation U.S. (@[email protected])

$40/hour + cost of living increase + bringing back jobs = a big victory for the UAW. A #labor expert has an overview of the 2 deals so far and what’s next. https://theconversation.com/united-auto-workers-union-hails-its-tentative-strike-ending-deals-with-ford-and-stellantis-that-would-raise-top-assembly-plant-hourly-pay-to-more-than-40-as-record-contracts-216432 #News #UAW

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Mother Jones :press: (@[email protected])

GM Contract Will Protect EV Workers, Paving Way for Green Transition This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Workers at General Motors’ electric vehicle battery manufacturing facilities will be protected by the company’s national contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW), the... #press https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/uaw-contract-general-motors-ev-workers-protected-shawn-fain/?utm_source=press.coop

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