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[dɔminik]Nov 1, 2019

#capitalism: Hourly pay to afford one-bedroom rent is more than double minimum wage in most of the United States

https://www.businessinsider.com/minimum-wage-worker-cant-afford-one-bedroom-rent-us-2018-6

A minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment in most of the US

Many minimum-wage workers can't even afford a modest one-bedroom apartment, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition's annual report. The...

[dɔminik]Nov 1, 2019

Don’t [ever] Call the Police, Call Your Neighbors!

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/01/dont-call-the-police-call-your-neighbors/

Don’t Call the Police, Call Your Neighbors!

Here is a hard truth: Police do not keep communities safe. This year alone has produced numerous stories of officers causing distress, damage, or death i

CounterPunch.org
[dɔminik]Oct 31, 2019

#Chile: 1 Million Protest Extreme Inequality in Latin America's Richest Country

https://therealnews.com/stories/chile-protest-extreme-inequality-richest-country

Chile: 1 Million Protest Extreme Inequality in Latin America's Richest Country

Chile pulls out of two major international summits amid mounting protests against austerity and the privatization of virtually every public good.

The Real News Network
[dɔminik]Oct 29, 2019

#HousingWorks Is Cast in Unusual Role: Corporate Overlord

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/nyregion/union-housing-works-nyc.html #NYC

Housing Works Is Cast in Unusual Role: Corporate Overlord

Workers say the nonprofit has resisted their unionization efforts. Housing Works says that it isn’t anti-union, but that a union wouldn’t solve workers’ concerns.

The New York Times
[dɔminik]Oct 28, 2019

As the UN leaves #Haiti, its victims still wait for justice

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/leaves-haiti-victims-wait-justice-191015090326315.html

As the UN leaves Haiti, its victims still wait for justice

It is high time for the UN to take responsibility for the crimes its peacekeeping forces committed in Haiti.

[dɔminik]Oct 28, 2019
It's Going Down (♻)Oct 28, 2019
Video of Unibank set ablaze by anti-govt protesters earlier today in #Haiti's capital.
[dɔminik]Oct 26, 2019
Mike FlugennockOct 26, 2019
Latest'n'Greatest: "The Democrats Have Evolved" at my cartoon blog http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2820 #Hillary #smears #Russiagate #Democrats2020 #TulsiGabbard
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons » Archive » The Democrats Have Evolved

[dɔminik]Oct 26, 2019

Google Accused of Creating Spy Tool to Monitor Employees

#Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss labor rights.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-23/google-accused-of-creating-spy-tool-to-squelch-worker-dissent #fuckgoogle #unions

[dɔminik]Oct 26, 2019
It's Going Down (♻)Oct 20, 2019
@BVWkrUnion #strike in #Portland 10/19/19 #boycottburgerville #burgerville #1u
[dɔminik]Oct 26, 2019
Matt NoyesOct 24, 2019
Hmm. The problem is that returns to capital outstrip returns to labor, in Piketty's terms, so giving workers a share in ownership of capital is a perverse solution. The better the company does (by exploiting labor more effectively as well as other competitive dynamics) the more workers "benefit."

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/plans-advance-democratizing-worker-ownership?mc_cid=69ec71fa3d&mc_eid=cbee0470da
Plans advance for democratizing worker ownership

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has put forward a set of proposals that would”fundamentally shift the wealth of the economy into the hands of those who create it.”