Does Joe Manchin know that BBB would extend benefits for
sick coalmine workers?
Manchin won't vote for Build Back Better, leaving Biden's
flagship bill unlikely to pass
Joe Manchin Just Put the Build Back Better Act on Life
Support
https://newrepublic.com/article/164819/joe-manchin-no-build-back-better-act
'I'm kind of speechless': Democrats scramble to salvage
climate provisions after Manchin sinks Build Back Better
Manchin to Dems: Redo the whole thing, maybe I'll vote
for it. The West Virginia senator wants
a new bill that goes through Senate committees and focuses on rolling back the
2017 Trump tax cuts.
Watch Manchin F00LS around with STUPID defense after
'suddenly' switches side to Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr5dNm_jnqY
What Does a Manchin-Friendly Build Back Better Look Like?
The Hideous Truth: The White House Still Needs Joe
Manchin
https://newrepublic.com/article/164844/biden-white-house-still-needs-joe-manchin
Bob Kerrey on the Senate, then and now
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/bob-kerrey-on-the-senate-then-and-now-44120643775
Yes, Joe Manchin Will Face Blowback in West Virginia
https://newrepublic.com/article/164852/joe-manchin-blowback-west-virginia-build-back-better
Joe Manchin has made millions from coal. His ties are now
facing examination as Democrats scramble for a climate and economic agreement
Manchin Negotiated In Bad Faith To Obstruct Bill That
Would Help His State Says Joy Reid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36SysI1WMs
Parents Describe How They Spent Their Last Child Tax
Credit
https://newrepublic.com/article/164855/last-child-tax-credit-payment
Actress TRASHES Joe Manchin & West Virginia, Then
Apologizes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36tHIDtiLl8
Democrats Need to Suck It Up | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/164862/democrats-joe-manchin-biden-2022-midterms-democracy
'I CAN' Biden sends SH0CKWAVE to Trump with 'brilliant'
holliday trick against the 'rise'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Iz3yw-fpA
Meet the new Harvard, same as the old Harvard
https://theweek.com/talking-points/1008202/meet-the-new-harvard-same-as-the-old-harvard
It's unrealistic to ban football. But it might not be
ethical to watch it, either.
https://theweek.com/culture/sports/1008114/should-football-still-be-americas-favorite-game
Keeping up with inflation: And more of the week's best
financial insight
Ronald Reagan stuck it to millennials: A college debt
history lesson no one tells. Dramatic,
awful changes occurred on my generation's watch -- and it amounts to a
fiendishly successful conspiracy
Economic Update: Anti-Mandate Is NOT Anti Vaccine - Dec
20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qikjWQdC5v4
Will Omicron Destroy the Economy? (w/ Richard Wolff) -
Dec 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQePa4Q5fp4
Richard Wolff Doesn't Get It - Dec 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-CppjgTqAI
Richard Wolff on Crypto, Meta, and Techno-Feudalism - Dec
21, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7p3iVTBm7M
Obscene Wealth v.s. Democracy - Dec 21, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB_kR6UQY5A
Ask Prof Wolff: Worker Co-op and Stock Markets - Dec 24,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1pn3kyN1mo
Economic Update: The Contradictions of 2021 - Dec 27,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj22U5VOwBU
Ask Prof Wolff: What Defeats Corporate Plutocracy - Dec
29, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns0aWYxI1jI
Wolff Responds: Lessons of Major US Policy Failures - Dec
31, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smIC8LY3eCY
Wolff Responds: US Labor - A Sleeping Giant Wakes - Jan
4, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh7X4xqnyR4
All Things Co-op: Lessons from Venezuela's Social Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6fpNfoO0g
Biden's Beef with the Meat Industry Monopolies (w/
Richard Wolff) - Jan 5, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKTpeWLduqo
Ask Prof Wolff: Individuals and Society - Jan 5, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Kn2qMcKXE
HELLO PROFESSOR: Profs Julianna Forlano and Dr. Richard
Wolff On The Top Lies Propping Up Capitalism - Jan 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuyVEaKNPi8
Prof. Richard Wolff: New Year's Revolutions – Jan 7, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3OU1yn8mQ
Economic Update: Strikes Amid Reviving US Labor Movement
- Jan 10, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f2SeF60IQU
Prof Wolff Explains the European Energy Crisis - Economic
Update - Jan 11, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgzwMsgwkY4
Richard Wolff: Capitalism, Covid and Crisis - Jan 11,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbrEzU5ayR0
Ask Prof Wolff: Beyond a Two-Party System - Jan 12, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f39E8o0tZpY
Global Capitalism: Political Economy of Covid: Year #3
[January 2022] - Jan 12, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493gKvgs1W0
Economist Richard Wolff Compares Libertarians to Children
- Jan 13, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwa6-p9n5F8
Ask Prof Wolff: Non-profits as Co-ops - Jan 14, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjf5w2K-RQA
Wolff Responds: China & US Changing Places? - Jan 15,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CydroIVRT_I
Economic Update: Emotions and US Politics Today – Jan 17,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X-hmqIXvQ8
Why It's Important to Criticize Capitalism Today -
Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Jan 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYwQs8WhtP0
Ask Prof Wolff: How Do Socialist Enterprises Raise Funds?
- Jan 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0lBY3gERY
If Democracy Ends? Inside The Economics of Fascism (w/
Richard Wolff) – Jan 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciHf4SQ14Jo
Prof. Richard Wolff: American Cacophony – Jan 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASTMBDJx8a4
Ask Prof Wolff: Obstacles to
Left Organizing - Jan 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZibnmSjlqU
Wolff Responds: American Workers Have Had Enough! - Jan 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6NsmyEwDRo
This system IS NOT working - Global Capitalism with
Richard Wolff - Jan 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPhy7YEkfJs
Economic Update: The End of the Megamachine - Jan 24,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49anxrq_U_U
Why is U.S. population growth slowing down? - Economic
Update with Richard Wolff - Jan 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozSj2y-dC14
Ask Prof Wolff: Credit Unions vs. Banks – Jan 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9QIBw5TWBM
Wolff Responds: The Ukraine Crisis – Jan 27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8KhRkbEld8
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Profit-Driven Healthcare Fails Us –
Jan 28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i62IWSw2qs0
Richard Wolff Responds to Biden in COVID Year #3 - Global
Capitalism - Jan 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbncYegXSoI
Wolff Responds: Sorry, Mr. Biden, Competition Does NOT
Cure Inflation – Jan 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n61Yj-ID2VQ
Ralph Nader | Why societies COLLAPSE - Dec 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz0KhoKV3Fo
Mark Zuckerberg Is TNR's 2021 Scoundrel of the Year - The New ...
https://newrepublic.com/article/164858/mark-zuckerberg-tnr-2021-scoundrel-year
New Strategy for Labor Organizing: Platform Co-ops for
Worker Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAsSWwD_z8M
Defund the Dead: Hey Democrats, your president is trying
to redistribute money from the dead back to the living. You’re not giving him much help.
https://newrepublic.com/article/164716/defund-dead-estate-tax-inheritance
Bring Back the 'Wealth of the Nation': It's time to break
the curse of 'Voodoo Economics' and return to manufacturing to rebuild the
wealth of our nation.
http://www.populist.com/27.22.Hartmann.html
Inflation Blame Game: Americans, it seems, just can’t
stand prosperity. Or maybe it’s just the corporate news media that can’t stand
to give Joe Biden credit for the recovering economy.
http://www.populist.com/27.22.Edit.html
Jim Hightower: Taking On Monopolies
The Return of Rent Control: As pandemic-era tenant
protections end, cities are reconsidering rent control as a means to keeping
people in their homes.
Opinion: Biden is quietly erasing one of Trump’s cruelest
legacies
The Socialist Case for Santa Claus: Old St Nick is
egalitarian and internationalist; he disregards free-market mores and
nation-state borders. Socialists should embrace Santa Claus.
Capitalism Hits Home: Addiction and Desperation - Dec 23,
2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGN_YSMYiY8
Capitalism Hits Home: Identity Politics,
Intersectionality, and Unity - Jan 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK1RIKCEhMU&list=RDCMUCK-6FjMu9OI8i0Fo6bkW0VA&start_radio=1
Capitalism Hits Home: Capitalism and Opioids - A Deadly
Combination – Jan 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0sKyS2PYo
Froma Harrop: The SALT tax
deduction is actually progressive
https://www.sunjournal.com/2021/11/16/froma-harrop-the-salt-tax-deduction-is-actually-progressive/
Farmers will change if
politicians let them
http://www.populist.com/27.22.ArtCullen.html
ALAN GUEBERT: Too much money, too much drift, too much
grift
Everyone Benefits from Infrastructure Investments
http://www.populist.com/27.22.Conway.html
Inflation is Complicated But Making It Better Doesn’t
Have to Be
Wealthy Americans Get Paid Leave, Shouldn’t the Rest?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/11/12/wealthy-americans-get-paid-leave-shouldnt-the-rest/
The Trucker Shortage: Why Don’t We Let the Market Work?
https://cepr.net/the-trucker-shortage-why-dont-we-let-the-market-work/
What’s Really Driving Inflation? Corporate Power
https://robertreich.org/post/667491205931745280
CFR at 100: Still Making World Safe for Super-Rich
http://www.populist.com/27.22.Anderson.html
The media's inflation hysteria —more theatrics? "Crisis" mania
https://pressrun.media/p/the-medias-inflation-hysteria-more
Inflation Has Been Killing You for 40 Years. Why Are You
Noticing Now?
https://rall.com/2021/11/16/inflation-has-been-killing-you-for-40-years-why-are-you-noticing-now
Why The New York Times Gets the Story Wrong on Congo: A
recent series on cobalt mining in the country is more focused on the U.S.-China
power competition than the nation’s poverty.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/12/21/why-the-new-york-times-gets-the-story-wrong-on-congo/
Socrates, Jefferson, and Bryan at the School Board
Meeting: A conversation among three great figures about why we’re so divided
over education.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/12/25/socrates-jefferson-and-bryan-at-the-school-board-meeting/
Who Gives and Who Gets?
Explore the Balance of Payments between States and the Federal
Government
https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/
It’s Corporate Power That’s Driving Inflation
Want to Curb Inflation? Stoke the Fire Without Burning
Down the Barn
Comment: The Power and Promise of Organizing
https://progressive.org/magazine/power-and-promise-organizing-jaffe/
Fighting the Eviction Epidemic: Without a federal
eviction moratorium in place, organizers are often the last line of defense for
vulnerable renters.
https://progressive.org/magazine/fighting-eviction-epidemic-leanza/
Our Housing Crisis: The Tucson Tenants Union fights
evictions, which have worsened since the beginning of the pandemic.
https://progressive.org/magazine/our-housing-crisis-livier/
Refusing to Serve: Restaurant workers are rejecting low
wages and deteriorating conditions.
https://progressive.org/magazine/refusing-to-serve-herman/
The Movement to Organize Restaurants: I’m a food service
worker in New York City; here’s why I’m fighting against the chronic low pay
and unstable working conditions we’ve gotten used to.
https://progressive.org/magazine/movement-organize-restaurants-tylim/
One Question: How Can Activists Organize Against Economic
Inequality?
https://progressive.org/magazine/how-activists-organize-economic-inequality/
First-Person Singular: On Becoming the Heroes We Were
Waiting For
https://progressive.org/magazine/becoming-heroes-waiting-for-packard/
Help for Heroes: Unions take aim at what ails the U.S.
health care system.
https://progressive.org/magazine/help-for-heroes-johnson/
Take This Job and Love It: Worker cooperatives offer an
alternative to keeping power and profits in the hands of a few rich people.
https://progressive.org/magazine/take-this-job-love-it-noor/
‘We Have to Reduce Corporate Power’: An interview with
professor and activist Zephyr Teachout.
https://progressive.org/magazine/zephyr-teachout-interview-whitney/
Hemming and Hawing: Homeowners of the World, Relax
https://progressive.org/magazine/homeowners-of-the-world-relax-farsad/
Vox Populist: Workers Want to Work, and to Get Respect
https://progressive.org/magazine/workers-want-work-respect-hightower/
It's Put Up or Shut Up Time in the Fight Against Global
Corruption
https://newrepublic.com/article/164725/biden-2022-foreign-kleptocracy-corruption
Abolish the Department of Agriculture: The USDA has
become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for
consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.
https://newrepublic.com/article/164874/abolish-department-agriculture
On the Line: Standing Up and Walking Out
https://progressive.org/magazine/on-the-line-standing-up-walking-out/
Work Won't Love You Back: A Transformative Time for
Workers
https://progressive.org/magazine/transformative-time-for-workers-jaffe/
Easing the Burden of Student Loans: With more than
forty-three million Americans carrying $1.7 trillion in student loan debt,
states are finding new ways to help.
https://progressive.org/magazine/burden-of-student-loans-johnson/
One Question: What More Can Joe Biden Do to Help Working
People?
https://progressive.org/magazine/one-question-biden-help-working-people/
Guatemala’s Failed Promise: Twenty-five years after the
peace accords that ended the Central American country’s civil war, the hope for
social justice has dimmed.
https://progressive.org/magazine/guatemala-failed-promise-abbott/
Hemming and Hawing: What’s Wrong with Facebook
https://progressive.org/magazine/whats-wrong-with-facebook-farsad/
Vox Populist: No Vote, No Work!
https://progressive.org/magazine/no-vote-no-work-hightower/
Ellen Brown: The Real Antidote to Inflation. The Fed has options for countering the record
inflation the U.S. is facing that are far more productive and less risky than
raising interest rates.
https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/22/ellen-brown-the-real-antidote-to-inflation/?fbclid=IwAR3Omfb5m-DiSi9dFqZjxCZJKLWOoYYFGz6sx_QJdrNY2cnC8Ur3ZzVvCs0
Can wartime trauma cause dementia? This scholar has a
personal reason to find out
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-10/wartime-trauma-hits-close-to-home-for-scholar-of-dementia
How Cutesy Startups Capitalize on America's Rotten Health
Care System
https://newrepublic.com/article/164878/health-care-apps-covid-tests?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
Social Security January Payments: When Will Checks Arrive
in 2022?
https://www.gobankingrates.com/retirement/social-security/social-security-january-payments-when-will-checks-arrive-in-2022/?utm_term=gbrcloser&bsft_aaid=0c8dfead-f30c-466c-9766-7dd2175dd8f8&bsft_eid=0bb8406f-aa4e-4f6b-8cdb-cf7c9abc9a3a&subid=gbr-closer-20211229&utm_campaign=dddbb4ab-3a63-4094-b85b-55b452d60c49&utm_content=gbr-closer-20211229&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=ctemail&email_type=newsletter&bus_line=pf&campaign_name=gbr-closer&bsft_clkid=99809b2c-5294-4ac2-84e7-685a9576766a&bsft_uid=ed35048b-ccee-4d98-9350-49a107816e91&bsft_mid=cc10b6d8-304a-49ae-8344-cd8d87fa1e56&bsft_txnid=a2ac5083-c5e1-4938-b37d-4dfde2b271d9&bsft_mime_type=html&bsft_ek=2021-12-29T22%3A02%3A46Z&bsft_lx=3&bsft_tv=18
Supply Chain Madness is Here to Stay
https://newrepublic.com/article/164888/supply-chain-crisis-climate-change
We Need Real Competition, Not a Cable-Internet Monopoly
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/we-need-real-competition-not-a-cable-internet-monopoly?fbclid=IwAR2ynAYEZMc4LLdewUr9McHVLrrDUUG__uVUJbTfX6EqkF0cp76Xzk05_zA
No more surprises: Surprise medical bills will be banned
on Jan. 1, 2022
https://www.northcentralpa.com/life/no-more-surprises-surprise-medical-bills-will-be-banned-on-jan-1-2022/article_9572d442-62c7-11ec-9b0c-a3d656c94f21.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2Ex61v32F101D9B2FItS_d8ay4-_6bqb2ZwEpYgwhxzE41cLMfJgtu1So&link_id=13&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&email_referrer=email_1395997&email_subject=the-broadsheet-and-lycoming-progressive
Timnit Gebru Launches Independent AI Research Institute
On Anniversary of Ouster from Google
The Distributed AI Research Institute will create space
for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive
influence.
https://www.dair-institute.org/press-release
The End of the Novel of Carefree Striving
https://newrepublic.com/article/164902/end-novel-carefree-striving?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
Turn On, Tune In, Cash In
https://newrepublic.com/article/157144/microdosing-magic-mushrooms-renaissance-psychedelic-drugs?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1640926989
U.S. Economy at a Glance
https://www.bea.gov/news/glance
Why the Best GDP Report Ever Won't Mean the Economy Has
Healed
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/business/economy/gdp-economy.html
Global class struggle
https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/site_area/workers
FDIC Chair Resigns: ‘Blow to Trumpism’
https://www.laprogressive.com/fdic-chair-resigns/?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=556624bdb3-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-556624bdb3-286987487&mc_cid=556624bdb3&mc_eid=dd9216c814
COURT APPROVED NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT In re:
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Privacy Litigation Case No. 5:20-cv-02155-LHK
https://a44614.actonservice.com/acton/rif/44614/s-0046-2112/-/l-00a9:f0978/l-00a9/showPreparedMessage?sid=TV2:DOmckUzYW
Dow jumps more than 200 points to record close to start
2022, Tesla boosts Nasdaq by 1%
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/02/futures-stock-market-news-open-to-close.html
Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP)
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ocs/programs/lihwap
My Parents Are Growing Old With Cerebral Palsy—and Our
Health Care System is Failing Them
https://newrepublic.com/article/164891/aging-with-cerebral-palsy
Gentrification in South Philly Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3M6LFRNjJk
The National Labor Relations Board Is Finally Doing Its
Job
https://newrepublic.com/article/164800/jennifer-abruzzo-nlrb-enforce-biden-union-agenda?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
Rare earths: Scarcity at your fingertips
https://qz.com/2062525/how-china-keeps-a-grip-on-the-rare-earth-metal-industry/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=quartz-obsession&utm_content=74dded64-6e4a-11ec-af52-f6d39b6443ec
Glacially slow but moving! Corporate Board Diversity
Increased in 2021. Some Ask What Took So Long.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/business/corporate-board-diversity.html
Why Should Chicago Teachers be Responsible for Making
Life Normal Again?
https://newrepublic.com/article/164964/chicago-teachers-union-covid
Arguing for the “Compassion Economy”: Years of unrelenting
capitalism have caused American workers to demand better.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/compassion-economy
Gravitas Plus: How Big Pharma pushes dangerous drugs and
reaps profits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCciAJJMt9Q
Biden slams 'capitalism without competition' as
'exploitation' and says he wants to put an end to it by cracking down on big
corporations
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-slams-capitalism-without-competition-as-exploitation-consumers-workers-corporations-2022-1
'Seems Like a Good Policy!' CBO Shows Medicare for All
Could Cover Everyone for $650 Billion Less Per Year: The analysis shows that
administrative costs under a single-payer healthcare system "will be lower
than what even the most rabid Medicare for All supporters have traditionally
claimed."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/12/11/seems-good-policy-cbo-shows-medicare-all-could-cover-everyone-650-billion-less-year
Runaway Inequality and the Crisis in U.S. Healthcare is
an in-depth examination of the U.S. healthcare system developed specifically
for union audiences.
https://djdinstitute.org/runaway-inequality-and-the-u-s-health-care-crisis/
CBO: Medicare for All Reduces Health Spending. More health care for less money is a
no-brainer if you like good things.
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/12/11/cbo-medicare-for-all-reduces-health-spending/
Economic Analysis of Medicare for All
https://peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-analysis-of-medicare-for-all?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ac666dcf-c1bb-4eb0-a6ea-39c4a9bb5321
Everybody In Nobody Out: The Case for Single Payer
Healthcare (Video Series)
https://www.bmwe.org/secondary.aspx?id=412
WE NEED MEDICARE FOR All: Help us fight to replace our
fractured and broken health system with a unified Medicare for All system.
https://medicareforall.dsausa.org/
Talking with Union Members about M4A
https://www.ueunion.org/stwd_m4a.html
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy5O1DxeqG0
Trends in obesity
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/50992445153/
LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER: Taking the Labor
Movement to the forefront in the fight for single payer healthcare, because
it's time to take healthcare off the bargaining tabl
https://www.laborforsinglepayer.org/
Join and support DSA
https://act.dsausa.org/donate/membership2020/?mn=qo9eejfg_bmzcng02iuxkryuxgkvrhg6kfwf.m4uhdhzoexxn57gp
In 2021 The International Working Class Said: STAND UP
FIGHT BACK!
https://moreleftthanleft.wordpress.com/
Senator Jabari Brisport NYHA filibuster (6/8/21)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YKhClsoDRwM
2022 M4A Organizing Guide
https://medicareforall.dsausa.org/2022-organizing-guide/intro
Payday Report: Covering Labor in News Deserts
https://paydayreport.com/
Democrats’ inaction on tax credit condemns millions of
children to poverty
https://www.liberationnews.org/democrats-inaction-on-tax-credit-condemns-millions-of-children-to-poverty/
The practical justice of Marxism’s vision for a workers
state
https://rainershea.substack.com/p/the-practical-justice-of-marxisms
Only Fuzzbrained Human Livestock Fret About Communism
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/only-fuzzbrained-human-livestock-fret-about-communism-b201bef3c32c
Biden Promised Student Debt Relief for Public Service
Workers. The Reality Has Been Painful.
“Even the best targeting is going to leave out borrowers
who we need to be able to capture.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/biden-promised-student-debt-relief-for-public-service-workers-the-reality-has-been-painful/
Biden Should Fight Corporate Concentration, but Not
Because of Inflation
https://newrepublic.com/article/164974/corporate-concentration-inflation-price-gouging
LABORNOTES
Main Office: 7435 Michigan Ave, Detroit, MI 48210; (313)
842-6262.
East Coast Office: 104 Montgomery St, Brooklyn, NY 11225;
(718) 284-4144.
https://labornotes.org/
There Are So Many Reasons Not to Trust Banks on Climate
Change
https://newrepublic.com/article/164996/many-reasons-not-trust-banks-climate-change
Join a Union—but Also Join a DAO: DAOs aren’t a
substitute for the labor movement, but they can be a powerful tool to fund
creative projects collectively.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/dao-crypto-union/
Why Democrats Started Fixating on Inflation: Anticipating
an impact on their electoral fortunes, Democrats are hoping to get ahead on a
pressing question.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/democrats-inflation/
How Workers Can Win in 2022: They need to create a crisis
in order to turn this country around.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/labor-strikes-workers-unions/
There Was No Union. There Was No Plan. A tornado hit an Amazon warehouse in Illinois
and killed six workers. Would a union have made a difference?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/amazon-warehouse-edwardsville-tornado/
The Big Business Behind Travel Nursing: During the
Covid-19 pandemic, demand for nurses—already understaffed—surged to even higher
levels, and travel nurses deployed to fill the gaps.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/travel-nursing-deploy-to-new-orleans-with-krucial-staffing
How the Mighty Culinary Union Survived the Apocalypse:
After facing 98% unemployment in the depths of the pandemic, the strongest
union in Las Vegas has risen again.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/vegas-culinary-union-pandemic-shutdown-workers
These Tortilla Workers Walked Out and Won a Day Off Work:
Gathered outside Chicago’s flagship El Milagro taqueria, workers remembered
those who died from Covid-19—and celebrated a victory that granted them Sundays
off.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/el-milagro-chicago-tortilla-workers-day-of-the-dead-vigil
Student Worker Isn’t an Oxymoron: This month University
of California’s Student Researchers United-UAW won their union, the largest
unit of student employees organized at once in U.S. history. Let’s look back 30
years at what campus organizers fought for.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-workers-berkeley-univerisity-campus-labor-organizing
Workers Got Fed Up. Bosses Got Scared. This Is How the
Big Quit Happened. And what it means.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/record-quits-great-resignation-labor-workers-pandemic/
I Was an Overworked Covid Nurse. I Had Enough When My
Boss Told Me the Only Snack in the Room Was Him. But that wasn’t why we nurses quit en masse.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/covid-icu-nurse-quitting-big-quit/
I Was an Instacart Shopper. I Had Enough When Someone
Gave Me a 1-Star Review for Too-Ripe Bananas.
The work just became an isolated, frustrating ball of stress.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2022/01/i-was-an-instacart-shopper-i-had-enough-when-someone-gave-me-a-1-star-review-for-too-ripe-bananas/
Working in the Service Industry Always Sucked. During a
Pandemic, It’s Unbearable.
Six workers share their stories.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/covid-pandemic-service-worker-horror-stories/
I Was a Comcast Employee. I Had Enough When I Was Told to
Upsell Internet to Low-Income People. “I have to pitch this person products and
sell them things or else I’m going to have a lower paycheck. The pressure was a
lot.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/comcast-pandemic-low-income-the-big-quit-internet-school/
I Was an Amazon Staffer. I Finally Had Enough When My
Wife Was Dying and I Was Told to Perform or Quit. I remember sitting there thinking, what the
hell did I do wrong?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/i-was-an-amazon-staffer-i-finally-had-enough-when-my-wife-was-dying-and-i-was-told-to-perform-or-quit/
They Went to Bible College to Deepen Their Faith. Then
They Were Assaulted—and Blamed for It.
At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and
complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the
abused.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/moody-bible-institute-purity-culture-evangelicalism-sexual-assault-title-ix-mbi-survivors-group/
The Bill for My Homelessness Was $54000 - The New York
Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opinion/debt-homelessness.html
Harvey J. Kaye Speaker Series - Sara Nelson | Weidner
Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmbUmJz6ONc
Covid Drove Workers to Quit. Here’s Why From the Person
Who Saw It Coming.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/covid-worker-shortage-great-resignation-professor-what-comes-next-51640853004
Vaccine Politics Are Tearing Republicans Apart: The hot
new feud between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis points to the growing relevance
of the anti-vax movement on the right.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165062/vaccine-politics-tearing-republicans-apart
Inside Face Mask Making Factory - Mar 24, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC_T5wNse0Y
Should We Be Breeding Pigs Just for Their Hearts? A pig
heart was recently transplanted into a man with a violent past. But there’s a
much thornier moral debate we should be having about this medical breakthrough.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165074/pig-heart-transplant-ethics
The Future of Cities Summit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4AGvs2YZeg
Future of Cities Summit
https://thehill.com/event/588322-future-of-cities-summit
‘Nothing Will Be the Same’: A Prison Town Weighs a Future
Without a Prison. After a decade of
efforts that sharply reduced inmate populations, California is closing prisons.
One town at the edge of a valley in remote northeast California whose economy
is built on incarceration is waging a legal battle to keep a prison open.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/us/susanville-california-prison-closing.html?fbclid=IwAR3txfivU4Uy6L1YmSsGFRLY9jWmLOe6f13J32X-A08AiKgwCOJybnCGrEQ
HUMANISM & THE ARTS | It is Literally about Literacy
https://thehumanist.com/magazine/winter-2022/humanism-arts/humanism-the-arts-it-is-literally-about-literacy
What Happened When a Trippy Art Collective Hit It
Big—Then Unionized: Meow Wolf began as a ragtag experiment in Santa Fe. Now
it’s a multimillion-dollar company, and its employees want to be recognized not only as artists but
workers too.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165071/meow-wolf-union
UNFUCKABLE CHOCOLATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1_584d7sI
Chicago teachers fight for their safety – and ours:
Interview with Kirstin Roberts and Dennis Kosuth
https://www.tempestmag.org/2022/01/chicago-teachers-fight-for-their-safety-and-ours/?fbclid=IwAR0TTI_TEA6tywgpI5k9smDK8UYw6Ix2pmdF9xW5vQgq4rA_qKoMy6Uiufg
How the Fed Supercharged Inequality: Journalist
Christopher Leonard’s new book, “The Lords of Easy Money,” follows the unintended consequences of quantitative
easing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165054/fed-supercharged-inequality-quantitative-easy-lords-easy-money-review?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch
Without Child Tax Credit Payments, Families Forced to
Stretch Financial Resources
https://cheddar.com/media/without-child-tax-credit-payments-families-forced-to-stretch-financial-resources?link_id=0&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-defend-it-extend-it&email_referrer=email_1417693&email_subject=cutting-through-the-noise
5 Ways Your Company May Be Exploiting You | Robert Reich
- Jan 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iugeGj-P7c
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism AND Social Democracy Are
Dead - Jan 17, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0lNnXAiL0
There’s Another Way to Extend the Child Tax Credit:
Senator Mitt Romney’s child allowance proposal may offer a basis for future bipartisan negotiations.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165164/romney-family-security-act-another-way-extend-child-tax-credit
You Can Be a War Hawk or an Inflation Hawk, but You Can’t
Be Both: Republicans who condemn the inflationary
impact of Biden’s proposals won’t acknowledge the much more inflationary impact
of confronting Russia over Ukraine
https://newrepublic.com/article/165209/inflation-war-hawks-mcconnell-russia-ukraine
Government watchdog says HHS is at ‘high risk’ of
botching a future crisis: GAO criticizes the response to emergencies over four
administrations, including coronavirus, Ebola and Zika, as well as extreme
weather events
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/27/gao-hhs-mismanaged-pandemic-response/
The Revolution Against Low-Wage Work: Workers used the
additional resources of the past year to demand better pay and conditions.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/jobs-wages-recovery/
How the Pandemic Threw Fuel on a Growing Housing
Movement: Organizers and activists hope the
pandemic has changed how America thinks of housing for good.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/housing-homelessness-pandemic/
Could California Actually Pass Single-Payer Health Care?
https://www.laprogressive.com/pass-single-payer-health-care/
A Hidden Cause of the Housing Crisis
https://www.laprogressive.com/hidden-cause-of-the-housing-crisis/
Affordable Child Care Is the Boost Our Economy Needs:
High quality child care helps parents earn more now, kids earn more later, and keeps entire communities afloat.
http://populist.com/28.02.King.html
School Funding: One More Reason to Hold the House
http://populist.com/28.02.Rollins.html
Story of the Year: Farmers Fight Back
http://populist.com/28.02.McMillen.html
DISPATCHES: Economy soars, ‘Bad News’ for Biden?; Trump’s
Euro golf resorts lose $100M; Indiana senator says teachers should be impartial
when discussing Nazism, fascism; Trump has been laughing at Jan. 6 victims;
Kevin McCarthy says he’ll kick Dems off House committees if Rs get majority; Death
rates up 40%, life insurance CEO says; Retiring Republicans could support
voting rights—but they wont; Virginia's new governor shows how Republicanism
works in one awful stroke ...
http://populist.com/28.02.Dispatches.html
Keep moving, nothing to see here
https://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/keep-moving-nothing-to-see-here/699281.html
Harm to One is Harm to All
https://www.usw.org/blog/2021/harm-to-one-is-harm-to-all
America’s Steel Spine: Will Biden resist pressure to
weaken tariffs against China’s steel subsidies and double down on his industrial policy to revive domestic
steelmaking?
https://prospect.org/economy/americas-steel-spine/
The Good News in 2022 will be the Economy
https://www.nny360.com/opinion/columns/dean-baker-the-good-news-in-2022-will-be-the-economy/article_4145144b-39da-5ce0-9e4f-f7f929967a76.html
A Critique of Obscene Wealth
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/17/a-critique-of-obscene-wealth/
How a Group of Starbucks Workers Emerged Victorious in
Their Union Fight
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/22/how-a-group-of-starbucks-workers-emerged-victorious-in-their-union-fight/
The Potterizing of America: As the child tax credit ends,
big corporations (and their CEOs and investors) keep raking it in.
Corporate power -- not public assistance or wage gains -- is causing
price increases
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/corporations-raking-it-in
A Life Without Vaccines
http://populist.com/28.02.Retsinas.html
Higher Prices Inflate Hopes for Republicans
http://populist.com/28.02.Uretsky.html
How Biden’s Christmas ‘Nightmare’ Turned Into a
Gift-Giving Miracle
http://populist.com/28.02.Boehlert.html
Ralph Nader's Holiday Season Top Reading Recommendations:
The following recent books connect us to
the grim reality, pulling us back from myths and virtual reality escapes to
the societal mirror we all must face
for the common good of today and tomorrow.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/22/ralph-naders-holiday-season-top-reading-recommendations
Student Loans: A Silent Scandal No More
https://www.creators.com/read/ted-rall/12/21/student-loans-a-silent-scandal-no-more
Antonio Brown Is a Damning Reflection of the NFL: The
fact that the former Tampa Bay wide receiver was even on the field is an indictment of the entire league.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/antonio-brown-nfl/
An ICU nurse went viral for quitting after 19 grueling
months of the pandemic. Now, he says he's more relaxed and is encouraging other healthcare workers to do the
same.
https://www.businessinsider.com/icu-nurse-encourages-others-to-quit-after-pandemic-burnout-2022-1?fbclid=IwAR3XpMrYdvXX3Du7qlgqXWTI2UXnnALT7fveEA7y7Ce91rV1_YtTPCwIRs4
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