Covid scare, swearing and scolding from “line leaders,” and lucrative pre-New Year bonuses — a series of upheavals at the world’s biggest iPhone factory captured global attention this winter, we documented what life was like inside https://restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-iphone-factory-china/ via @[email protected]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/violazhouyi/status/1620408913333190656
Lots of upsetting stories about conditions for health care workers in China, but this detail blew me away: "from 2009 to 2019, only 7-10% of the income of public hospitals came from government allocations." https://m.copernicium.tw/sys-nd/671.html?checkWxLogin=true&openId=ogk8%2BxOCQAW2AW8nXhv0UwRYSmYzgtK4vwdpuInnU2M%3D&secondAuth=true
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EliDFriedman/status/1620468714469740547
HK Govt's handling of #COVID19 has been problematic.
🔽Some #HKLabourRights related examples🔽
- Healthworkers joined a strike demanding PPE face retaliation
- Mandatory COVID vaccination or testing at employee’s own expense
- High bar to claim COVID compensation https://twitter.com/XinqiSu/status/1620239623493685249
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HKLabourRights/status/1620460597665202177
“#JUSTIN HK leader John Lee rejected the suggestion to launch an independent inquiry into the city's handling of the #covid pandemic, due to 1) the virus was new; 2) US and UK had more deaths; 3) the pandemic changed fast; 4) the gov has learned lessons and found new ways.”
Grandpa Chan, who sued the police for hiding their identities while abusing protesters, now punished for it with a US$65k bill. We’ve seen over and over that DOJ & courts will go to great lengths to deter anyone from challenging or embarrassing the police. https://hongkongfp.com/2023/01/31/77-year-old-hong-kong-activist-ordered-to-pay-govt-hk510000-after-attempt-to-launch-legal-bid-against-police/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SamuelBickett/status/1620447644614107139
An elderly Hong Kong pro-democracy activist has been ordered to pay around HK$510,000 to the Department of Justice after his application to launch a legal challenge against the police over their display of identification during the 2019 protests was dismissed by court, local media reported. Chan Ki-Kau – commonly known as Grandpa Chan of protest […]
"The 2020 murder of George Floyd led to mass uprisings for racial justice and against police murder. Yet, with the backing of pro-cop Democratic mayors, police budgets across the country have increased." https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/01/justice-for-tyre-nichols-solidarity-against-police-murder/ #JusticeforTyre #AbolishThePolice #BlackLivesMatter
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tempest_mag/status/1620459548573335552
#CCPChina is stealing #DNA from #Tibetan as young as age 5 with #DNA kits supplied from @[email protected] who is making huge profits at the cost of #HumanRights .
Join us virtually in this global week of action
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SFT_India/status/1620316817024753664
Important story here.
Given the way that neoliberal austerity policies have fueled the rise of global authoritarianism it would be insane to now impose that same disastrous model on Ukraine. We need to stand with Ukrainians who oppose this. https://twitter.com/leee_harris/status/1620057369958031360
“New @TheProspect: Ukraine’s move to market economics could undermine its defense. Ukraine is considering tax cuts, even as it struggles to fund the war effort. Meanwhile it is preparing to flog off state-owned assets and paring back worker rights. https://t.co/zTkoOJhl9L”
Here's an article I wrote that describes my process. If we don't grow and learn from our errors we will never become what we need to be to help liberate our oppressed peoples:
https://redvoice.news/self-crit-how-i-became-a-bar-black-anarchic-radical/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrownSundjata/status/1620160180276318210
We should never be afraid of self-criticism. Not only where we fall short in practice, but also, equally importantly, where our theory falls short of reality. To stick to wrong ideas in the face of a changing world is to betray dialectics itself.
“I immediately noticed that almost all of the reforms that liberals suggest will save Black lives were present in Tyre’s death.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/30/what-would-have-saved-tyre-nichols-life
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/reclaimuc/status/1620193214513795072
Join us on 3/2...
“This seems an age of catastrophe, but it’s also an age equipped, in an abstract sense, w/all the tools it needs. Utopia is available to us. If, like me, you lived through the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, you can never discard hope.” -Mike Davis
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ChallengeIneq/status/1620164119872798720
“Join us on 3/2... “This seems an age of catastrophe, but it’s also an age equipped, in an abstract sense, w/all the tools it needs. Utopia is available to us. If, like me, you lived through the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, you can never discard hope.” -Mike Davis”
