The REAL Reason
why EGG PRICES are RISING (and how we fix it) - 3 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcMMMaZAxSY
Why health-care
services are in chaos everywhere: Now is an especially bad time to suffer a
heart attack
Ask Prof Wolff:
Understanding Surplus & Capitalism’s Abuse of It – Feb 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKyGvd45-s0
Economic Update: Unionization, Marxism & Education –
Feb 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrzD4v7-48
Ask Prof Wolff: Fascism, Keynesianism, and Military
Spending – Feb 15, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-k0hnaAOc4
Ask Prof Wolff: BlackRock, Homeownership and Reverse
Mortgages – Feb 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODe-tbj3VzM
Economic Update: Inequality’s Insidious Spread -
COVID-19, India, Insurance – Feb 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOh2vK825fk
Ask Prof Wolff: What Happens to the Stock Market After
Capitalism? – Feb 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Z8zdUyq8M
Ask Prof Wolff: How Do Austerity Politics Impact
Policing? – Feb 24, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kI04DE7hBg
Prof. Richard Wolff on The Limits of Regulations – Feb
25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aT6rqK4eas
Economic Update: Are Mega-Corporations Ruining Our World?
– Feb 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdq-CubHqBQ
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Can't We Imagine Moving Past
Capitalism? – Mar 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnXgp6o3Gw
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Do We Spend So Much on the US
Military Industrial Complex? – Mar 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noz1iYcNA8c
Economic Update: Establishment Media & Russia with
Aaron Maté – Mar 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42kWTaEqZg
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Does a Piece of Lumber Cost More
Today Than It Did 10 Years Ago? – Mar 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyfYZmCGXBE
Ask Prof Wolff: Can Profits Be Excluded From Food and
Healthcare? – Mar 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmecoOmSIdQ
Economic Update:
Social Security, Ohio Derailment, Puerto Rican Poverty - US Capitalism Provokes
– Mar 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUfrcKc3sU
INTERVIEW: Banks can’t be trusted with the money that
makes the world go round – Mar 14, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXCWLiuwUWU
Richard Wolff on the Collapsing Banks – Mar 14, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBrTMEOC2WE
Ask Prof Wolff: Does Our Education System Reinforce
Capitalism? – Mar 15, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQpwCHLy-HA
Ask Prof Wolff:
What Is Economic Nationalism? – Mar 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuFAv_UEV5o
A General Strike
in France - 4 Challenges to Capitalism with Richard Wolff – Mar 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23JmrpB4aEw
Economic Update:
How Austerity Paves the Way for Fascism – Mar 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIpi5Ui88MU
Ask Prof Wolff: What Europe Got Wrong about Sanctions on
Russia – Mar 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS0kWzxlMiM
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Democratic Workplaces Are Better for
Work-Life Balance – Mar 24, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e2jjvkE-zI
Women: The Leading Force for Growing Militant Unions - 4
Challenges to Capitalism with Richard Wolff – Mar 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEk3CiJwm2A
All Things Co-op: Lula's Brazil & The Landless
Workers Movement – Mar 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnNeDlo-wGs
Ask Prof Wolff: Is the U.S. Dollar in Trouble? – Mar 29,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbVd2SAbzdI
Ask Prof Wolff: How Capitalism Distorts The Immigration
Issue – Mar 31, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ShZJJie0JQ
Ask Prof Wolff: The Illusion of Woke Economics – Apr 5,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Kqeg2MEg0&t=12s
Ask Prof Wolff: The Impact of China on Small U.S.
Businesses – Apr 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OtM5exHZH0
Economic Update: When We Put People First in US Politics
– Apr 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu7pAsInjd8&t=135s
All Things Co-op: Silicon Valley Bank and the Mania of
Capitalist Banking – Apr 11, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca8UvdaMsBA
Ask Prof Wolff: AI & ChatGPT - What are the Economic
Impacts? – Apr 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qec5Iv7nvw
Ask Prof Wolff: Lessons from France's Pension Struggle –
Apr 14, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpDPhJLc0mg
Economic Update: Today's Medicare For All Battle With Dr
William Bronston – Apr 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9ELjDcRkg
Ask Prof Wolff: Who Do Politicians Really Serve? – Apr
19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlGdNJU1El8
As the U.S. Empire Declines: Nationalist Capitalism or
Neoliberal Globalization, what will the New World Economy shape up to be as the
U.S. empire declines?
https://www.laprogressive.com/democracy/neoliberal-u-s-empire-declines
Ask Prof Wolff: How Treasury Bonds Help Corporations and
the Rich – Apr 21, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNcOumyBe8g
Prof. Richard
Wolff: The Sickness of 'Artificial Intelligence'? The System. – Apr 21, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M62Dyy3DVm8
Economic Update:
The Emerging New World Economy – Apr 24, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s6F97zYJ1Y&t=6s
All Things Co-op:
The Artificial Intelligence Dilemma – Apr 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hmJlogBioU
Ask Prof Wolff:
The True Cost of Sanctions – Apr 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMpxJMx-Q3Q
May Day
Livestream: Economics and the Labor Movement with Richard Wolff and Paul
Prescod – May 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvN6F_rW03Q
Ask Prof Wolff:
The Many Interpretations of Marx – May 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgbQql4goI
Roe v. Wade &
the Unraveling of Social Protections - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – May
8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ4B3qMEtwk
Economic Update:
Varoufakis Critique of Capitalism Today – May 11, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZyJiOCIr1A
Ask Prof Wolff:
The Future After De-Dollarization – May 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKkD9INqQJM
France protests
look to test government's resolve on pension reforms
How the global
financial system enables oligarchy
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/03/16/economy-russia-global-financial-system-enables-oligarchy
Twelve Years
Since Citizens United, Big Money Corruption Keeps Getting Worse
What Is an
Oligarch?
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-an-oligarch-5499069
Escobar: The Big
Stiff - Russia-Iran Dump The Dollar And Bust US Sanctions
TAX HAVENS: LEGAL
RECODING OF COLONIAL PLUNDER
https://lpeproject.org/blog/tax-havens-legal-recoding-of-colonial-plunder/
Proposal for a
United Nations Convention on Tax
https://www.eurodad.org/un_tax_convention
Press release:
Governments Approve Proposal for International Tax Cooperation at United
Nations
Richest 1% bag
nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past
two years
Davos: Colombia
announces Latin America’s first global tax summit as countries gear up for UN
tax negotiations
The Global Tax
System Is Broken. We Can’t Trust Rich Countries to Fix It.
Biden Is Right:
You Shouldn't Pay a Higher Tax Rate than Billionaires. The president has renewed his call for a
“billionaire minimum tax.” If Congress won’t listen, states should.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/pay-a-higher-tax-rate-than-billionaires
Mississippi hit
by 900% increase in newborns treated for syphilis: "This seems like
something that should have happened a hundred years ago, not last year,"
the state's former health officer said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/congenital-syphilis-treatment-mississippi-increase-rcna69381
Raise Teacher Pay
NOW - Feb 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCFgJ8_3mk
Teen girls report
record levels of violence, sadness and suicide risk, CDC survey finds: If you
or someone you know needs mental health support, contact the national Suicide
& Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988.
What is
'lifestyle inflation' and how does it limit wealth? More money, more problems? Not necessarily.
https://theweek.com/finance/1020966/what-is-lifestyle-inflation-and-how-does-it-limit-wealth
Government
Involvement in the Drug Trade: State involvement in the drug trade occurs for a
variety of reasons including the allure of profiteering
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/government-involvement-in-the-drug-trade
Lawmakers, labor
unions negotiating single-payer health care bill
Updates:
Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers. Check back for our regular updates on U.S. unemployment
and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency.
https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/
Rising U.S.
Interest Rates Push Countries in Global South Toward Economic Collapse – Feb
16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwpSX33y5Hc
LIVE: We Must Address
the Health Care Workforce Crisis – Feb 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-YZD2u1mO8
Capitalism Hits
Home: Inflation & Manufactured Poverty – Feb 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-wlmJPN1ok
Will It Be a
Recession or Just a ‘Richcession’?
How Not to Solve
California's Affordable Housing Crisis: The "Solutions" people are
not getting government funding, but it doesn't take a political scientist to
see the interests of a governing oligarchy and its non-government cronies and
think tanks are identical
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/california-affordable-housing-crisis
Tesla workers say
company fired people in retaliation for unionization effort
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/business/tesla-buffalo-union.html
Debt-laden
African countries charged 'extortionate' rates, U.N. chief says
How the Federal
Strategic Plan Can Prevent and End Homelessness
https://endhomelessness.org/blog/how-the-federal-strategic-plan-can-prevent-and-end-homelessness/
The Federal
Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness
https://www.usich.gov/All_In.pdf
Labor Report from
State Senator Christine M. Targaglione, February 17, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100166885.583.68&gen=1
Aging in Asia:
Findings From New and Emerging Data Initiatives.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK109218/
Meet the Activist
Championing the Rights of Workers From the Inside: Of all the members of
Biden’s administration, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has arguably
sparked the biggest changes for American workers.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jennifer-abruzzo-national-labor-relations-board/
“Revolutionary”
Housing: How Colleges Aim to Support Formerly Incarcerated Students. The number of formerly incarcerated people
heading to college is sure to grow. Designing supportive housing for these
students could be key to ensuring that they graduate.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/college-housing-prison-project-rebound/
Don’t Buckle to
Terrorists
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Editorial.html
Letters to the Editor:
How to Stop Inflation Without Recession; What Would DeSantis Do?; Freedom
Caucus Misfit; Banning Abortion Not a Social Security Solution; Don’t impose
Your Belief in My Art; Global Warming is Our Legacy; Farmers Could Help with
Reversing Climate Change; Deal the People Back In; A Muddled Supreme Court and
Insurrection; Nuclear Sword of Damocles; Women’s Issues Are Bipartisan.
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Letters.html
Froma Harrop: Egg
prices are already cracking
I Think I Know
What My Old Man Would Have Said
https://www.populist.com/29.03.ArtCullen.html
Any New Farm Bill
Must Navigate the Unruly 2023 House GOP – Again
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Guebert.html
GENE LYONS:
Academic drama, meet unsubstantiated Islamophobia
America’s
Inequality Problem in One Statistic: If you work for a big corporation, your
boss likely made more money on Jan. 2 than you will this whole year.
https://www.populist.com/29.03.SAnderson.html
Websites Selling
Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google: Some sites selling
abortion pills use technology that shares information with third parties like
Google. Law enforcement can potentially use this data to prosecute people who
end their pregnancies with medication.
https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google
Building the
Essential Supply Chain
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Conway.html
MAGA House Plots
to Stop Uncle Sam from Paying Bills, Because This is What Extortionists Do
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Polman.html
Republicans Turn
to Mugging Social Security: With their Speaker circus over, the party now
threatens to crash the economy unless they can slash your benefits.
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Zimmerman.html
Mary Sanchez:
Grovel to anti-vaxxers first, apologize to grieving families later
Turning the Debt
Ceiling Crisis Against McCarthy’s Republicans: Biden needs to play serious
hardball, or he will get rolled.
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Kuttner.html
Fighting the
Imposter Syndrome: Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time
to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/imposter-syndrome
Robert B. Reich:
Back to another horrible, hellish, horrendous, totally absurd battle over the debt
ceiling
The Business of
Optimism, or Health-Hype
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Retsinas.html
Artificial
Intelligence Still Needs Some Work
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Uretsky.html
Here is the
Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage. Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I
should know. I helped sell it.
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Potter.html
Five Reasons
There Will Not be a Recession in 2023 in the United States
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Joseph.html
Money and
Mediocrity in the NCAA
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Friedman.html
Labor Militancy
Is In the Air
https://www.populist.com/29.03.Kalet.html
Damar Hamlin's
Pain Is Not a Feel-Good Story -
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/damar-hamlin-nfl-football/
Full interview:
Sen. Bernie Sanders on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" – Feb
19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC2TGXAxfnE
Why Are Doctors
Quitting? This Physician Says They Are Demoralized | Amanpour and Company – Feb
20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CxGhEuXcG8
The Rich Hooked
America on the Free Market Myth Featuring Naomi Oreskes – Feb 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Fh3fgd_-8
How Inequality
Happens
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/01/23/how-inequality-happens
Froma Harrop:
Social Security on the cutting block?
Rural Diner Menu
Choices are Limited
https://www.populist.com/29.04.ArtCullen.html
US May Have the
Muscle in a Trade Fight, Mexico May Have the Law
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Guebert.html
The Clearest Case
for Taxing Billionaires Yet: Last year, the world’s wealthiest lost billions
and didn’t suffer one bit. They wouldn’t suffer if they had to pay their fair
share of taxes either.
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Pizzigati.html
The Economy Is
Doing Great: Will the Fed please stop trying to crush it?
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-31-economy-inflation-federal-reserve/
The Threat of
Supreme Injustice
https://m.usw.org/blog/2023/the-threat-of-supreme-injustice
Google’s Stock
Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?
Guns: Geico,
Amica, Aetna to the Rescue
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Retsinas.html
The Health Care
System is Failing Its Providers, Too
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Uretsky.html
Don’t Let
Politicians Cut Housing Aid: Housing vouchers and food stamps helped my family
escape a dangerous situation. Will families today get the same chance?
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Covington.html
Pakistan: ‘At the
End of the Road.’
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Gunasekaran.html
Drug Price
Showdown Time for Chairman Bernie Sanders
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/30/drug-price-showdown-time-for-chairman-bernie-sanders/
The Housing
Crisis is Harming My Town
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Lydon.html
Who Tells a
Favorite Performer It’s Time to Go?
https://www.populist.com/29.04.Patterson.html
5th person
confirmed to be cured of HIV: The Dusseldorf patient is latest to be rid of HIV
with no signs of return.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361
Democracy and the
White Working Class vs. “Oligarchy” in the South: The U.S. freedom road is long
and winding, and people dedicated to the struggle have been traveling it for
many decades now.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/white-working-class
Google excludes
thousands of workers from benefits: report.
“The umbrella that all these things fall under is exploitation,” said
David Jones-Krause of Oakland, a former contracted content creator for Google
customer-service functions.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/22/google-excludes-thousands-of-workers-from-benefits-report/
Bing Chatbot
Names Foes, Threatens Harm and Lawsuits.
The bot told me "I prefer not to harm anyone unless it is
necessary."
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bing-threatens-harm-lawsuits
As Biden’s economic
team turns over, we look at its successes and failures over the first two
years.
Even With
Thinning Ranks, Unions Organize for Change
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/even-thinning-ranks-unions-organize-change
The Biggest
Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich – Feb 21, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFjoDq0HfFw
With inflation
still the focus, Fed minutes show openness to higher rates endgame
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/fed-minutes-detail-debate-over-rate-hike-endgame-2023-02-22/
Michael Parenti |
CAPITALISM DESTROYS – Feb 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MANU_JqN5SA
Privacy Not
Included. Mozilla Study: Data Privacy
Labels for Most Top Apps in Google Play Store are False or Misleading
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: War Crimes in Ukraine & Beyond – Feb 23, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlw8D-_QPwA
The People's
Economic Forum Part Two – Feb 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1BByUuLSs
Philadelphia Area
Cooperative Alliance
A Public Bank for
Public Money to Serve the Public Good
https://philapublicbanking.org/
Mystery Remains:
There’s no getting around the fact that we’re more visible than we can imagine
and if you care to be paranoid, you now have a reason to be.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/humor/mystery-remains
The New York
Times: Alarmist on the National Debt.
How the hell can we expect Americans to understand what the national
debt means if the media doesn’t report it accurately?
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/new-york-times-national-debt
National
Association for Home Care & Hospice
Germany's Scholz
committed for Free Trade deal between India, EU
5 dead, including
patient and medical personnel, in Care Flight plane crash: The cause of the
crash near Stagecoach, Nevada, is currently unknown.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/5-dead-including-patients-medical-personnel-care-flight/story?id=97462225
A Brief History
of the Erie Canal | History| Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-erie-canal-180981546/
Meet the teenager
leading a technology liberation movement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/opinion/teen-luddite-smartphones.html
Did Howard
Schultz Make Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse? The billionaire CEO returned to Starbucks to
curb union activity. His union busting has been so egregious that the company’s
already poor reputation is now in tatters.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/starbucks-the-poster-child-of-corporate-abuse
Hollywood
Neighborhoods Reveal Why Trickle-Down Housing Policies Don't Work: The panacea
of zoning deregulation has led to flipping and the construction of expensive
apartment towers with high vacancy rates.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/trickle-down-housing-policies
Getting to the
Root of the Social Media Crisis: Section 230 reform isn’t going to solve our
problems.
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-media-in-the-united-states/social-media-crisis
If Paris Is Worth
a Mass, Europe Is Worth a Search: Zelensky desperately wants his country
Ukraine to be accepted into the European Union. However, Ukraine is universally
characterized, and perennially ranked, as one of the most corrupt countries in
Europe
https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/europe-is-worth-a-search
Biden
Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor: The move came days after
a Times investigation showed children were working in dangerous jobs throughout
the United States.
Don’t Leave a
Message
https://www.dailychatter.com/stories/dont-leave-a-message/
How Co-ops
Sustain Members and Create Systemic Change - All Things Co-op Live Q&A –
Feb 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTZi2bMa5I
Want to Fix
Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor.
Public health requires seeing the world from a collective perspective,
but US agencies are still dominated by doctors trained to work on an individual
level.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fix-public-health-argument/
The Tradeoffs in
the Fight Against Inflation: Living with inflation of a little over 2 percent
for a short period would be worth it to keep the gains in the economy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/federal-reserve-inflation-jobs/
Bernie Sanders:
Anti-Union Capitalism Is Wrecking America.
Workers deserve a better deal than the unfettered capitalism that is
destroying our health, our democracy, and our planet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bernie-sanders-angry-about-capitalism/
Letters From the
March 6/13, 2023, Issue: Toadying at Harvard… The work of democracy (web only)…
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/letters-from-the-march-6-13-2023-issue/
America’s Toxic
Romance With the Free Market: A conversation with Naomi Oreskes about her new
book with Erik M. Conway, The Big Myth, and how market fundamentalists
convinced Americans to loathe government.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/qa-naomi-oreskes/
Non-Compete
Agreement Leaves Workers Homeless and Jobless
https://labornotes.org/2023/02/non-compete-agreement-leaves-workers-homeless-and-jobless
Non-Compete
Clause Rulemaking
https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/non-compete-clause-rulemaking
How Antitrust Failed
Workers
Non-compete
Clause Rule (NPRM)
https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2023-0007/document
Economic Policy
Institute
EPI applauds the
reintroduction of the PRO Act
https://www.epi.org/press/epi-applauds-the-reintroduction-of-the-pro-act/
Biden warns of
‘MAGA’ Republicans’ desire to cut spending
Biden to nominate
Julie Su as labor secretary
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/julie-su-labor-secretary/index.html
LIVE: Stand with
workers. Pass the PRO Act. – Mar 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lib_EtWxGN0
No one should
have to go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt to get an education.
Period. – Mar 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6FC2znehQ&t=2s
When the Rich
Profit…The Poor Starve - w/Gabriela Sandoval – Mar 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbkLVDjBYhw
Lilly to cut some
list prices by 70% and offer $25 insulin
Senate votes to
overturn Biden administration retirement investment rule Republicans decry as
‘woke’
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/politics/senate-vote-esg-rule/index.html
Judge says
Starbucks violated labor law in effort to stop union
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/01/starbucks-union-ruling-buffalo/
As more patients
turn to diabetes medications like Ozempic for other uses, a shortage has taken
hold. But doctors say going off these drugs can take a toll. We asked doctors what happens after someone
stops taking these medications.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/well/live/ozempic-wegovy-weight-loss.html
Twitter Lays Off
at Least 50 in Relentless Cost Cuts
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-lays-off-at-least-50-in-relentless-cost-cuts
LIVE: Senate HELP
Hearing: Expanding Community Health Centers – Mar 2, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQArhNsWCpw
Capitalism Hits
Home: Where do Gender Roles Come From? – Mar 2, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24J0o8aYh-w
Warren Buffett,
in annual letter, stays upbeat and preaches patience
What Will Happen
When Banks Go Bust? The first step to
solving the problem is understanding what is going on.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/banks-go-bust
Workers are
essential, capitalists are not w/Maximillian Alvarez | The Chris Hedges Report
– Mar 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oStP3mUYY50
A New Path to
Universal Healthcare? w/Kathryn Lewandowsky – Mar 2, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMHWqtQF-Bo
Gov. Newsom signs
mental health care overhaul. Will it make a dent in homelessness crisis?
New law will
allow courts to push some mentally ill Californians into treatment
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/14/gov-newsom-signs-mental-health-care-overhaul-into-law/
Will The Rich
Make You Work ‘Til You Die? – Mar 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkX8-wlzHM0
Breaking Up (With
China) Is Hard to Do: In the absence of more attention to the supply chain, the
US is becoming even more reliant on Beijing—and ‘friendshoring’ often increases
that dependence.
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Kuttner.html
Would Wall Street
Kill Your Granny for A Little More Profit?
https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/would-wall-street-kill-your-granny-for-a-little-more-profit/
Prevaricating for
Profit
https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/prevaricating-for-profit/
Biggest Foreign
Owner of US ‘Ag Land’ Isn’t Who You Think
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Guebert.html
Credit Card
Holders Get Protection from Fraud. Shouldn’t EBT Users, Too? My kids and I deserve the same consumer financial
protections that higher-income Americans get.
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Clemons.html
Banking Services
Return to the Post Office
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Anderson.html
University of
California and Its Union Problem
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Sandronsky.html
Knowledge and
Power
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Conway.html
Union Power
Requires an Activist Workforce
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Kalet.html
The IRS Is Taking
Your Calls. So Much for that MAGA Lie About ‘An Army of 87,000 agents.’
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Polman.IRS.html
Is the 'Horse
& Sparrow' Economic Scam Returning?
Back in 1896 & 1929 people didn’t need a detailed multi-decade,
multi-country analysis of Horse & Sparrow to know it was bad news: the
Great Panic & the Republican Great Depression convinced everybody.
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Hartmann.html
Bullying
Librarians Is for Know-Nothings
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bullying-librarians-is-for-know-nothings/
The Invasion of
BIG E
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Retsinas.html
Keeping Up With
the Infrastructure
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Uretsky.html
Union Joe Rides
Again: Working on the Railroad Part 1
https://www.populist.com/29.05.OLeary.html
Humanity Can No
Longer Tolerate Corporations That Exist Almost Entirely to Make Money: Society
must make the necessary shift from a society that prioritizes wealth
accumulation and economic growth to one that puts personal and societal
well-being above profits.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-responsibility-reform
Biden is Right:
You Shouldn’t Pay a Higher Tax Rate Than Billionaires. The president has renewed his call for a
“billionaire minimum tax.” If Congress won’t listen, states should.
https://www.populist.com/29.05.Entralgo.html
Biden Admin Negotiates
Deal to Give WHO Authority Over US Pandemic Policies: New international health
accord avoids necessary Senate approval
"Biden admin
negotiates deal to give WHO authority over US pandemic policies.”
Labor Report from
State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione March 3, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100166917.763.160&gen=1
On Tuesday, March
7, 2023, In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's governor Josh Shapiro delivers the
Executive Budget address.
https://www.tmorra.com/next/Pennsylvania+-+Executive+Budget+address
What to Watch:
Shapiro Will Pitch First Budget as Governor.
Gov. Josh Shapiro will unveil his first budget as he aims to remake the
state's public school funding system and to put Pennsylvania on competitive
footing with other states to attract major companies
Mayor Jim Kenney
submits Philadelphia city budget proposal with $6.1B in spending
https://metrophiladelphia.com/mayor-jim-kenney-final-budget/
Shouldn’t The
Economy WORK for US? – Mar 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hiQz_xTswY
Working and
Training in PA: Education, Apprenticeships, and Career Paths
https://www.pa.gov/guides/working-training-pa/
Publications by
L. Randall Wray, Economist
https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/l-randall-wray
To Prevent More
'Catastrophic Derailments,' Rail Workers Outline Plan for Immediate Reforms:
"We demand that the railroad be run safely, efficiently, and
professionally, and not as some 'cash cow' for Wall Street investors and
billionaires," said one union leader. "Much of what is wrong with the
rail industry today can be fixed easily and quickly."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rail-workers-demand-reforms-to-prevent-derailments
Biden Wants $1.6
Billion to Combat Covid Aid Fraud
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-wants-1-6-billion-235138936.html
North Korea
Suffers One of Its Worst Food Shortages in Decades: Covid-19 border
restrictions and natural disasters have led to widespread hunger
Why Don’t the
Rich Pay Into Social Security? w/ Rep. Mark Pocan – Mar 5, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMD5xC49i28
Making Money Work
for Us: How MMT Can Save America
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Money-Work-Us-America/dp/1509554262
China Sets
Conservative Growth Target as Challenges Loom: Officials aim for around 5% GDP
growth this year, the lowest target in a quarter-century
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-sets-economic-growth-target-of-around-5-for-the-year-88eaff89
Unions vow to
shut France’s economy down amid pension battle
Sanders Is Right
about U.S. Capitalism: Sanders refers to our “uber” or “unfettered” capitalism,
suggesting that there are different types of capitalism—just as there are
different types of socialism.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/sanders-is-right
The State of
Unionizing: The Dark Truth and How to Change it: Passage of the PRO Act would
greatly strengthen penalties against employers who either violate workers’
rights or retaliate against those who try to organize.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/the-state-of-unionizing
Kids and Money:
It’s never too early to teach children financial basics
https://www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publication/?i=783584&article_id=4518535&view=articleBrowser
Key Parts of Nutritional
Readiness
https://www.qgdigitalpublishing.com/publication/?i=783584&article_id=4518539&view=articleBrowser
An Economic Bill
of Rights for the 21st Century: In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt proposed
constitutional amendments to guarantee Americans’ fundamental economic rights.
It was never adopted—and today, is more necessary than ever. Here’s an
adaptation of his program for our time.
https://prospect.org/economy/economic-bill-rights-21st-century/
LIVE: Starbucks
CEO Howard Schultz has finally agreed to testify before the Senate HELP
Committee. – Mar 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plEcfhexzEw
FDA: Two more
eyedrop brands distributed by Pharmedica and Apotex recalled due to risks
https://abc7chicago.com/fda-recall-eyedrop-pharmedica-apotex/12926784/
The Culture War
Is a Racket: The oligarchs' phony “culture war" distracts us while they
stuff another trillion dollars taken from working people into their money bins.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/culture-war-is-a-racket
Global
Capitalism: Challenging Capitalism [March 2023] – Mar 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQgML6NtfU
LIVE: Defend the
Right of Workers to Organize – Mar 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmMrHnn9DK8
‘I Wanted to be a
Trailblazer’: Zandra Flemister, the First Black Woman Hired as a Secret Service
Agent, Enduring Years of Blatant Racism, Dies at 71
https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/03/03/first-black-woman-secret-service-agent-dies-at-71/
FACT SHEET:
President Biden’s Budget Lowers Housing Costs and Expands Access to Affordable
Rent and Home Ownership
FACT SHEET: The
President’s Budget Cuts Wasteful Spending on Big Pharma, Big Oil, and Other
Special Interests, Cracks Down on Systemic Fraud, and Makes Programs More Cost
Effective
FACT SHEET: The
President’s Budget Cuts the Deficit by Nearly $3 Trillion Over 10 Years
Fed’s Jerome
Powell Says Data Will Determine Size of Next Rate Increase: February reports on
hiring, inflation will guide rate decision, central bank chair says in
testimony
Job openings
declined in January but still far outnumber available workers
Oil prices slip
1% to two-week low on recession worries
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: The Circulation of Fictitious Capital – Mar 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E_LNUDXjW8
What Silicon
Valley Bank’s Implosion Means for You – Mar 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_673Cz8m9kY
New AI Questions
Existence In Unhinged Messages!! – Mar 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_XuhiZWiyU
Shell CEO pay up
50% as soaring energy prices boosted profit
Silicon Valley
Bank collapses and is seized by federal regulators: Implosion of bank could
force tech startups to scramble for cash
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-collapses-after-failing-to-raise-capital/
Labor Report from
State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, March 10, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100166938.470.11&gen=1
The Daring Ruse
That Exposed China’s Campaign to Steal American Secrets: How the downfall of
one intelligence agent revealed the astonishing depth of Chinese industrial
espionage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/magazine/china-spying-intellectual-property.html
Newly-released
footage SCREWS Trump – Mar 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqAwwEs6Jq0
Why Poverty
Persists in America: A Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist offers a new
explanation for an intractable problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/magazine/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond.html
Reckless Greed
Behind Bank Failures? – Mar 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmM0brosx50
5 years ago I
helped lead the effort against the bank deregulation bill. – Mar 14, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQE9r5K2oNA
The Great
Depression - America's Biggest Economic Crisis | Free Documentary History - 3
weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4F5gIWS_Is&t=695s
Meta to cut
10,000 jobs in second round of layoffs
Novo Nordisk to
Slash Insulin Prices by Up to 75%: Insulin maker is the latest to plan sharp
price cuts for the diabetes treatments
https://www.wsj.com/articles/insulin-price-cut-novo-nordisk-cb0f2061?mod=hp_lead_pos3
Veterans in
Labor: How Unions Benefit From Ex-Soldiers in Their Ranks. Today, about 1.3
million former military personnel work in union jobs, with women and people of
color making up the fastest growing cohorts in their ranks.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/unions-benefit-from-ex-soldiers
Are We Facing
Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami?
Silicon Valley Bank could be the canary in the coal mine foreshadowing
the fate of other over-extended banks.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/quadrillion-dollar-derivatives-tsunami
Child Labor Laws
and a Close Call on White Water: Two boys forgot warnings to watch out for
white water and let their canoe drift perilously close to the drop-off anyway.
Realizing their mistake in the nick of time
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/child-labor-laws-and-white-water
Bring Back
Glass-Steagall: How to stop playing whack-a-mole with the banks
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/bring-back-glass-steagall
The Relatable Professor:
Another Casualty of the Academic Job Market?
While the higher expectations today result in more accomplished faculty,
it may also mean that the person at the head of the room has little in common
with most of the people in it.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/relatable-professor
Capitalism Hits
Home: The Impact of Gender Roles - Care Work, Mass Violence & the Way Forward
1K views 9 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLBDT0tOu6o
Is Fed Chair
Jerome Powell Purposely Destroying the Economy? – Mar 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI85ADaA6zU
Interview with
Larry Summers, Former Secretary of the Treasury | The Problem with Jon Stewart
– Mar 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3rGFyN5uQ
11 big banks prop
up First Republic in $30 billion deal
3 major insulin
makers have now slashed the price of the life-saving drug. Here's why. Sanofi is the latest drug company to lower
the price of insulin for people with diabetes. Here's why it has been so
expensive - and what's next.
Kansas
legislators’ war on the poor opens worrisome new front: School vouchers and tax
avoidance
Young people
deserve better health care than what anti-abortion centers offer
Sandy Hook
Families Are Fighting Alex Jones and the Bankruptcy System Itself: As the
families seek more than $1.4 billion awarded by courts for Mr. Jones’s lies, a
New York Times review shows he is transferring millions of dollars to family
and friends, potentially out of reach of creditors.
Around the US,
more and more people are saying to the pharmaceutical industry: Stop ripping us
off. – Mar 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB5uRUoYfmQ
Inequality leads
to the evolution of intolerance in reputation-based populations
Fed rules: Just
be careful about breaking the banks. Did
the central bank go too far in its crusade to fight inflation?
https://theweek.com/business/1021869/fed-rules-just-be-careful-about-breaking-the-banks
Central banks try
to calm markets after UBS deal to buy Credit Suisse
New York
Community Bank to buy failed Signature Bank
Can We Slow This
All Down, Please?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/opinion/svb-banks-change.html
Jay Powell kicked
over a log, now everything's crawling out
https://badnews.substack.com/p/jay-powell-kicked-over-a-log-now?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Will China
Replace America’s Economic Hitmen? w/John Perkins – Mar 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O-9AKAYgg0
US banks want
socialism for themselves - and capitalism for everyone else: When banks like
Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan.
Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail’
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/19/svb-collapse-us-banks-socialism-capitalism
The Fed shapes
the US economy. Its New York dining staff struggles to afford groceries
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/21/federal-reserve-new-york-union-sodexo-food-service
Its Kairos Time:
Fight Poverty Not The Poor! How SNAP rollbacks impact – Mar 15, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua38NRL80z8
DAY 5: Video
report, media round-up from massive grand finale of March to Build a New World!
https://ciw-online.org/blog/2023/03/build-a-new-world-finale/
Quick Facts on
Housing
https://kairoscenter.org/quick-facts-on-housing/
WATCH: Faith
Leaders Congressional Briefing | Poor People's Campaign - Streamed 6 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWe45GcLMBk&t=2010s
Here are the top
10 livable cities in the U.S., according to Niche:
1. Cambridge,
Mass.
2. Arlington, Va.
3. The Woodlands,
Tex.
4. Naperville,
Ill.
5. Columbia, Md.
6. Berkeley,
Calif.
7. Irvine, Calif.
8. Ann Arbor,
Mich.
9. Overland Park,
Kans.
10. Bellevue,
Wash.
Beyond Gangster
Capitalism and the Ghosts of Fascism: Rethinking Education as the Practice of
Freedom. In the face of the current
fascist threat, progressives need to recover and reframe the discourse and
purpose of education as an empowering political project.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/gangster-capitalism
Warren: Powell is
a 'dangerous man to have in this job' – Mar 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilz4uB-vGb0
Life, Death and
Dignity on the Streets: Unhoused people are dying in record numbers in
California. Substance abuse and violence have been the leading causes but
weather-related factors like freezing are growing
https://www.laprogressive.com/california-political-issues/life-death-dignity-on-the-streets
LA Union
Troublemakers Plan More Trouble for the Bosses: 450 labor and union activists
participated in the LA Labor Notes Troublemakers school Saturday, March 11.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/la-union-troublemakers
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: Daniel Ellsberg, Government Dishonesty & Nuclear Weapons – Mar
23, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtgOUUR5zs
I asked Moderna’s
CEO if he guaranteed that the US wouldn't pay the highest COVID vaccine prices.
– Mar 23, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPFx8z5d1ZM
Drawn by a low
cost of living, many Americans are moving to countries like Portugal, Spain and
Greece, where a culturally rich urban lifestyle is within their reach. But the influx isn’t always welcome among
locals. →
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/realestate/europe-homes-sale-americans-lisbon-barcelona.html
LAUSD Teachers
Deserve Respect: Although strikes are difficult for everyone, sometimes it is
the only way to force change. My umbrella broke yesterday but not my spirits.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor/lausd-teachers-deserve-respect
Putting the Bank
Bailout in Context: Are people who are rich succeeding because of their own
inherent worthiness or because the game is rigged in their favor?
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/bank-bailout-in-context
Americans Lose
$20K Retirement Savings If Congress Doesn't Raise Debt Ceiling: Report
Los Angeles
school district and union reach deal following strike
Jenna's Promise –
Mar 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBH3y_i_qLo
Why more
Americans are putting off going to the doctor
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-more-americans-are-putting-off-going-to-the-doctor
Tipped Workers
Unionize, Win Contract: Heine Brothers union is the second largest coffee shop
workers' union operating under a master agreement covering multiple locations.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/tipped-workers-unionize
Democrats Propose
$300 Billion Fund for Treating Housing as Human Right: "In the richest
country in the world, it is a moral imperative that we take this issue
head-on," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/housing-as-human-right
U.S. backstops
Silicon Valley Bank sale to First Citizens
100-year-old
sisters share 4 tips for staying mentally sharp as you age—and they don’t say
crossword puzzles
With Teachers by
Their Side, LA Schools’ Lowest-Paid Workers Walk Out: A massive three-day
strike by school support staff and teachers recently shut down Los Angeles
schools.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/lowest-paid-workers-walk-out
Capitalism’s
Looming Crises: From Budget Debt Hyperbole to Banking Disaster
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/capitalisms-looming-crises
TOMORROW: A
Senate HELP Committee Hearing on the need to end illegal union busting at
Starbucks. – Mar 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHTBkOz9Cyo
Bernie Sanders
vs. Howard Schultz: Longtime Starbucks CEO Grilled on Company’s Union-Busting
Tactics – Mar 30, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKIHgM_o9V0
Google ‘not
truthful,’ tried to ‘subvert’ court process by deleting evidence in monopoly
case, judge rules
Plaintiffs claim
Google engaged in “a company-wide culture of concealment coming from the very
top, including CEO Sundar Pichai.”
Capitalism Hits
Home: All Empires Rise and Fall, The US Is No Exception – Mar 30, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivwIWgL_AV4
How Private
Healthcare CEOs Robbed Medicare To Make Millions – Apr 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_t-wCwFHGc
Opinion This federal judge may be hazardous to your
health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/31/texas-obamacare-judge-reed-o-connor/
Education Workers
Strike to Teach a City about Inequality: Strikes are a powerful pedagogy, and
with strike activity up by nearly 50% you can expect a good deal more of this
pedagogy in the coming months, perhaps years.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/education-workers-strike
LA Has Vacant
Property But Lacks Political Will: Billionaires and mega-corporations who own
most of the world’s resources only invest
where they can profit.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/la-has-vacant-property-but-lacks-political-will
An AI researcher
who has been warning about the technology for over 20 years says we should
'shut it all down,' and issue an 'indefinite and worldwide' ban
Getting to
Contract: Negotiating and Winning Against the Odds: Workers learn governing
power through high-participation negotiations. That’s also how they can get
employers to the table.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/union-contract-negotiations-strategy/
Should the Labor
Movement Prioritize the Push for Sectoral Bargaining? Larry Cohen argues that the labor movement
should seek power not solely in individual workplaces but in entire industries,
while Eric Blanc writes that the priority should be unionizing workplaces.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/sectoral-bargaining-labor-unions/
How Minor League
Ballplayers Won a Union: The players who make America’s pastime possible have
had enough of dismal working conditions, and they’re organizing to change them.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/minor-league-baseball-union-bill-fletcher/
Corporate America
Is No Longer Pretending to Care About Diversity: In what should be a surprise
to no one, corporations are quietly trimming the “Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion” teams they loudly championed in 2020.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/diversity-equity-inclusion-disappearing/
The Childcare
Crisis Is Getting Worse: When child care is unaffordable and unavailable,
people can’t get to work—it’s mainly mothers who are held back.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/childcare-crisis-wages-pandemic/
Lost Causes: The
growing nostalgia of contemporary architecture.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/reinier-degraaf-architecture-oma/
UBS may cut up to
a third of jobs after Credit Suisse takeover, Tages-Anzeiger reports
‘This is a social
emergency’: Thousands protest in Portugal over housing crisis
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/02/europe/thousands-protest-housing-crisis-portugal-intl/index.html
The Big Liar:
Donald Trump. Reagan was the most
anti-union president since Herbert Hoover. Trump was the most anti-union
president since Reagan.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/the-big-liar
Yo-Yo No More:
Forgive Student Debt. There are over 43
million individuals contending with student debt in the United States today,
who collectively owe more than $1.6 trillion.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/forgive-student-debt
Starbucks
"Partners" Laugh as CEO Schultz Claims He's No Union-Buster: The
spectacle of members of Congress grilling Howard Schultz was highly satisfying
to employees of the coffee giant.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/no-union-buster
Cities After...
The Business of Homelessness – Apr 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4KmOF4GEY
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: Housing in a Broken System – Apr 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1cm5HjIj4
Labor Report from
State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, April 7, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167013.560.69&gen=1
Oklahoma eyes
first US religious charter school after Supreme Court rulings
Will Your Grandma
Be Homeless?? – Apr 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWFHYnlN0sQ
No Shortcuts to
Abolishing Poverty: Matthew Desmond’s powerful new book on ending poverty fails
to reckon with the toxic legacy of militarism, settler colonialism and
neoliberalism.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/no-shortcuts-to-abolishing-poverty
FBI warns against using public phone charging stations
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/10/fbi-says-you-shouldnt-use-public-phone-charging-stations.html
Change Is Coming:
At the intersection of psychiatric disorders and law enforcement
https://marytrump.substack.com/p/change-is-coming?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Jobs report shows
236,000 jobs added in March and wage growth slowing to disinflationary rates
https://www.epi.org/blog/jobs-report-march/?mc_cid=cd62821ae8&mc_eid=bbd855ee75
Contract
negotiations between Rutgers University and 3 unions representing thousands of
faculty and staff continue amid historic strike
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/10/us/rutgers-university-unions-strike-monday/index.html
Unfair Labor
Practices Charge Filings Up 16%, Union Petitions Remain Up in Fiscal Year 2023
The Outrageous
New Way Big Pharma is Trying to Rip Us All Off: Big Pharma is buying off
members of Congress to block efforts to regulate the cost of drugs or let
Medicare negotiate prices
https://www.populist.com/29.06.html
Why Are We
Letting For-Profit Health Care Kill Us?
https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/why-are-we-letting-for-profit-health-care-kill-us/
Sick? Injured?
Dying? Call Wall Street!
https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/sick-injured-dying-call-wall-street/
Letters to the
Editor: Cryptocurrency, We Hardly Knew Ye; Farewell, Valentino; Inflation
Scares Small Investors; Wake Up, Dems!; Look Out for Railroad Workers; Roe v.
Wade Turned Tables on Politics; An Ode to Melancholy; VP Pence ‘Stupidified’ by
the Donald; and Strike Up the Band!
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Letters.html
Farm Bill Could
Be a Rare Accomplishment for a Divided Congress
https://www.populist.com/29.06.ArtCullen.html
Paying the Price
for Being Sick, Old, or Poor in Rural America
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Guebert.html
A Small Victory
Over Big Pharma: Eli Lilly announces insulin price caps, but keep an eye on the
footnotes.
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Kuttner.html
When Companies
Hire Low-Wage Contractors, They Put My Life at Risk
Working Kids to
Death
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Conway.html
A Union Takes on
the Housing Crisis
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/02/a-union-takes-on-the-housing-crisis/
The GOP Wants to
Renegotiate Women’s Place in the Economy: Out of touch lawmakers are rolling
out economic plans that would set women back generations. Not this time!
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Ghanem.html
Report Shows Big
Insurance Profiting Massively From Medicare Privatization: The seven largest
for-profit insurance companies in the US have seen their combined revenues from
taxpayer-backed programs grow 500% over the past decade.
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Johnson.html
Shareholder
Capitalism and the Cruelty of Mass Layoffs: There is no economic event more
damaging to the health and well-being of adult workers and their families than
suffering through a mass layoff. We know a better alternative exists.
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Leopold.html
Starbucks: Poster
Child for Corporate Abuse
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Kolhatkar.html
The Government:
Erasing the X in Prescribing Buprenorphine
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Retsinas.html
Blowback from
Stock Buybacks
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Joseph.html
Oklahoma’s
Education Horror
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Friedman.html
The Rich Have
Their Uses
https://www.populist.com/29.06.Patterson.html
Capitalism Hits
Home: Signs of a Declining Empire – Apr 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyYypd0HTpA
Will Climate
Change Sink Florida? w/ Dr. Michael Mann – Apr 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOKAs-QcioU
The doctor strike
that's crippling England's health-care system
Philadelphia
Public Banking Coalition
https://www.youtube.com/@BankPhilly/videos
How to Stop
Vulture Funds From Killing Local News: Washington has the tools. It’s time to
use them.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/04/04/how-to-stop-vulture-funds-from-killing-local-news/
The New Company
Towns: Monopolistic hospital systems now dominate the economies of many
cities—and shape public policy far beyond the scope of medicine.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/04/04/the-new-company-towns/
Medication
Abortion Now Accounts for More Than Half of All US Abortions
Medication
abortion is still possible with just one drug. Here's how it works
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/10/1168857095/misoprostol-only-medical-abortion
How Despicable
Are Big Pharmacies Insulin Price Gougers?
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-despicable-are-big-pharmacies#details
Stop Product
Testing On Animals
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Lingo.html
Big League
Baseball: You Win Some … and Might Lose ’Em
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Rollins.html
‘Right to Repair’
Fight Between Farmers and Machinery Giants Just Getting Started
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Guebert.html
Inequality Costs
Social Security Trillions. Here’s How We Fix It. There’s no need to cut Social Security. If
the wealthy simply paid the same tax the rest of us do, we could even expand
benefits.
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Benesch.html
‘Woke’ Phantoms
Behind School Walls
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Young.html
Can We Stop the
Greed-Heads From Their Destruction of Banking & More? As we learned from the Iroquois, working on
behalf of and protecting society from greedy predators should be the first job
of every government …
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Hartmann.html
Keep the DOL
Fighting for Workers
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Conway.html
There Are Worse
Things Than Mild Inflation: A shaky banking system, for one. A failure to
comprehend how the climate crisis raises prices, for another. Will the Fed
continue to compound the damage?
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Kuttner.html
SVB Was Donald
Trump’s Bailout
https://cepr.net/svb-was-donald-trumps-bailout/
Biden’s Budget
Would Level the Playing Field and Reduce the Deficit: The president’s plan for
jobs, families, and health reflects the things most of us value. But it should
spend more on those and less on the Pentagon.
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Dolan.html
The GOP Has
Become the Pro–Child Labor Party
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/the-gop-has-become-the-pro-child-labor-party/
Why Student Debt
Cancellation Is Reasonable, Not Radical
https://www.pressenza.com/2023/03/why-student-debt-cancellation-is-reasonable-not-radical/
Robert B. Reich:
Let’s talk about two big upcoming theatrical performances
Dystopian
Health-Speak: Medical Freedom
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Retsinas.html
Silicon Valley
Bank was Killed by the Federal Reserve Board
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Joseph.html
In the Era of
Legal Marijuana, the Kids are Alright: Opponents thought legalization would
lead to more teens using marijuana. Ten years since the first states legalized,
the reverse has happened.
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Armentano.html
A World Free of
Hunger: Is It Achievable?
https://www.populist.com/29.07.Gunasekaran.html
Death to the
Greedheads of Premiumization! (LOL)
https://rall.com/2023/03/07/death-to-the-greedheads-of-premiumization
Bonnie Jean
Feldkamp: My day in family court: Our lawmakers are focused on the wrong things
We are a
partnership of breast health doctors and researchers, patient advocates,
community leaders and women from all neighborhoods who share a common goal: to
revolutionize the way breast cancer is detected and risk is reduced.
https://www.thewisdomstudy.org/
What Elizabeth
Warren, Larry Summers, and Paul Krugman All Got Wrong About SVB: It’s a war for
the dollar—and the big banks. The rest of us better hold on tight.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/svb-collapse-fed-causes-bailout/
Want to Solve the
Maternal Health Care Crisis? Listen to Black Birth Workers: “We are the
solutions. We need more investment. And the way that we practice birthing,
pregnancy, and reproductive health care in our overarching wellness—this is the
way to go.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maternal-health-black-women-cdc/
Is the American
Dream a Long Con? A conversation with
Alissa Quart about her new book Bootstrapped, an examination of how the
ideology of individualism helped create the conditions for inequality.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/alissa-quart-bootstrapped-interview/
The Revolution
Against Shady Landlords Has Begun: In New York, the real estate industry and
the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to
change that forever.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/good-cause-eviction-new-york/
The End of the
Music Business: A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite
archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/music-industry-ipod/
The City Wears a
Coat to Bed
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/the-city-wears-a-coat-to-bed/
AU Hails End Of
Trump-Era Rule That Fostered Job Discrimination
Wave Of Book
Banning Means Empty School Library Shelves
In counties with
more Black doctors, Black people live longer, ‘astonishing’ study finds
https://www.statnews.com/2023/04/14/black-doctors-primary-care-life-expectancy-mortality/
U.S. Was Warned
of Migrant Child Labor, but ‘Didn’t Want to Hear It’: The White House and
federal agencies were repeatedly alerted to signs of children at risk. The
warnings were ignored or missed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/politics/migrant-child-labor-biden.html
Since 2010,
Carlos Moreno has been talking about the 15-minute city: the idea that everyday
destinations should be only a short distance from home. Many cities embraced
it. Then the conspiracy theorists showed
up.
Do 728
Billionaires Hold More Wealth Than Half of American Households? The wealth gap between the top earners and
the bottom 50% of households in the United States has been huge.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/04/13/728-billionaires-hold-more-wealth/
Cobalt Gold Rush:
East Palestine Disaster: mIntentionally rendering properties
uninhabitable sounds pretty far-fetched, but it is not without precedent.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/east-palestine-disaster
San Diego Setting
Precedents for College Towns Nationally: At the heart of the story is San Diego
State which has loudly displayed its rise from party school to academic leader
of the California State University system.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/san-diego-setting-precedents
Game Workers Are
About To Take On The Biggest Boss Fight Of All: Long hours, stagnant wages: a
look at the landslide of union interest across the industry.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/video-game-workers-union-noble-knight-boss-level
If You Can Borrow
a Book, Then Why Not a Chainsaw? The Rise of Tool Lending Libraries: Spawned in
the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and provide practical
guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store their own tools.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/tool-lending-library-alternative-economy
The Case for
Nationalizing the Railroads: Workers say now is the time to do the impossible.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/nationalize-the-railroads-workers-on-strike-biden-wages
Anime Voice
Actors Speak Out: It’s Not Kawaii When We Aren’t Paid: The union drive in anime
dubbing.
How to Stop AI
From Eating Journalism: Ethical standards can also save a lot of human jobs.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-journalism-chatgpt-media-ethics
The
Vail-ification of the West: In part two of our series, we visit the Colorado
ski towns at the extreme edge of rural gentrification.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/vail-colorado-west-gentrification-housing-tourism-mining-resort
Decolonizing
Economics Summit 2023: The 4th Annual Post-Capitalism Conference
https://decolonizingeconomicssummit.org/
Corporate
Dominance in Organic Governance and Rulemaking at the USDA - A Stick in the Eye
to Orangic Farmers and Consumers.
Updated White Paper Profiles Lobbyist-Affiliated Appointees to National
Organic Standards Board
https://mailchi.mp/641bf7c79c59/press-release-16835858?e=96f4d2014e
LIVE Town Hall:
Standing With Care Workers – Apr 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMwQsQ7DTEs
Kevin McCarthy
called out TO HIS FACE in stunning moment on live TV – Apr 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gCC0DzD5hk
A Massachusetts
Town Leads a Way Out of the Housing Crisis: Fifty years after an integration
plan in Lexington was defeated, the town approves a new vision.
Biden’s New Green
Jobs Are Boosting Purple and Red States.
Why the President’s industrial policy could be key to his reëlection
bid.
The Stunning End
to Dominion v. Fox News
To Support Women
and Families, Tax the Patriarchy: A new tool from the National Women’s Law
Center shows how taxing billionaires could fund "long overdue"
investments in the care economy.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/tax-the-patriarchy
Our Indifference
to Young People: Too many of us mouth the platitude that we believe that
children are the future while ignoring our children’s physical and mental
health.
https://www.laprogressive.com/wellness/our-indifference-to-young-people
Tech and
outsourcing companies continue to exploit the H-1B visa program at a time of
mass layoffs
The top 30 H-1B
employers hired 34,000 new H-1B workers in 2022 and laid off at least 85,000
workers in 2022 and early 2023
Letter to Senate
HELP Committee urging the advancement of Julie Su’s nomination as Secretary of
Labor
The end of the
pandemic public health emergency largely doesn’t change how state and local
governments can use ARPA fiscal relief funds
How Janelle
Jones’s Story About Black Women and the Economy Caught On
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/business/economy-black-women-labor-union-janelle-jones.html
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: The Corporatization of Academia – Apr 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnrxJyZ3S-A
The Abortion
Pill’s Secret Money Men: The untold story of the private equity investors
behind Mifeprex—and their escalating legal battle to cash in post-Dobbs.
The Word That
Makes Brutal Budgets Sound “Truly Evil”: Austerity was once a conservative
rationale for cutting spending. Now, it’s an explanation of the consequences.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/austerity-mother-tongue-keyword-truly-evil/
Bone Tired.
Underpaid. Performing Surgery. What Could Go Wrong? US medical residents practically never rest.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
To Save Whales,
Should We Stop Eating Lobster? Whole
Foods plans to pull Maine lobster from its shelves amid a debate about its
sustainability.
Labor Report from
State Senator Christine M. Targaglione, April 21, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167039.673.192&gen=1
A Doctor’s War
Against the Right-Wing Medical-Freedom Movement: As alternative medicine
infiltrates mainstream health care, one physician is fighting back with
everything he has.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170255/doctors-war-right-wing-medical-freedom-movement
The Right Has It
In for Woke Investors. The Only Problem? They Don’t Exist. Republicans are royally pissed off about
asset management firms with social and environmental commitments. The firms
really only care about the bottom line. In this new climate fight, we all lose.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170229/right-woke-investors-problem-dont-exist
These Four
Experts Are Very Concerned That the Republicans Will Breach the Debt Ceiling
“For them, chaos
is the point. But we have choices in response.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/170275/four-experts-concerned-republicans-will-breach-debt-ceiling
The Betrayal of
Adam Smith: How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas
https://newrepublic.com/article/170242/betrayal-adam-smith
How Bosses Ate
Feminism: The rise of “Lean In”–style feminism—and the women who fought for a
better alternative
https://newrepublic.com/article/170220/bosses-ate-feminism
Blame Palo Alto:
From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s
gospel of data and control.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170273/blame-palo-alto-history-book-review
What Is Elon Musk
Building? He promised a “digital town square”
when he bought Twitter. He has instead promoted right-wing conspiracy theories
about Covid-19, Democrats—and even Twitter itself. Welcome to the libertarian
superhero capitalist’s conception of the commons.
https://newrepublic.com/article/170931/elon-musk-twitter-right-wing-conspiracy-theories
The Battle Over
Bruno Schulz’s Final Works: The Polish Jewish writer was forced to decorate the
home of his Nazi captor with fairytale murals. Where does the art belong?
https://newrepublic.com/article/170982/battle-bruno-schulzs-final-works
Delaware becomes
22nd state to legalize recreational marijuana, despite governor's opposition
Stocks close
lower Tuesday as investors’ bank fears return, Dow sheds more than 300 points:
Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
LIVE: Youth
Mental Health Crisis – Apr 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1DMovED52Q
Third grade
teacher in Austin, Texas gets reprimanded for teaching students about their
‘legal and constitutional rights’: ‘I’m concerned that they find that
concerning’
It's Always Been
Lean on the Great Plains, But This Time Feels Different. Drought and other changes aggravated by
climate change take their toll among farmers and ranchers, and will lead to
higher food prices across the nation.
https://www.populist.com/29.08.ArtCullenP1.html
Big News!
Republicans Do Have an Idea: Bring Back Child Labor!
One Idea for
Actually Stopping Child Labor Abuse
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/one-idea-for-actually-stopping-child#details
Jim Hightower:
Take a whiff of Elon Musk's ecological paradise
Why Can’t Ill
Seniors Get Even a Scrap of Dignity from Congress?
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-cant-ill-seniors-get-even-a-scrap#details
Shhhh! Anti-WOKE
Right-Wingers Want to Put You to Sleep
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/shhhh-anti-woke-right-wingers-want#details
PepsiCo: Of
Quakers and Fakers
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Rollins.html
Student Debt
Forgiveness is a Win-Win for Our Country: The majority of us support debt
relief, but lobbyist-backed lawsuits are holding back Americans from achieving
a better life.
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Sandoval.html
Building Worker
Power
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Conway.html
The Double
Standard for Keeping Capital and Labor Honest: There is far more corporate
crime than crimes by unions. But corrupt labor officials are prosecuted and
jailed, while executive thugs walk.
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Kuttner.html
Many Are Falling
Short Chasing the American Dream: My story shows what many already know: you
can “do everything right” and still end up in financial uncertainty.
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Scott.html
The Social
Security Scare Story Industry
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Baker.html
Lowest-Paid
Workers in LA Schools Walk Out: Teachers by Their Side
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Kolhatkar.html
What if the
People Owned the Banks?
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/silicon-valley-banks-bailout-regulations/
How Love of Money
Replaced Love of Nation & Spirit: Patriotism & religion are luxuries.
When you can’t pay the rent or feed your family, when you’re pestered by bill
collectors, it’s hard to think of anything other than money…
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Hartmann.html
JESSE JACKSON:
Rolling Fork Needs to Be Built Back Better — Not Simply Rebuilt
‘What it means to
be an American?’ vs. ‘The Final Battle’
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Cintli.html
We Are Still
Fighting the Civil War Over Health Care for the Working Poor
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Hertz.html
Obesity: Tapping
into a Rich Market
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Retsinas.html
Shortage of
Doctors and Nurses Signals Public Health Crisis
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Uretsky.html
The GOP
‘Billionaires Pay Zero Tax’ Proposal Is Not for Family Farmers and Ranchers:
Republicans know full well that saying you don’t think billionaires should have
to pay any tax at all, ever, doesn’t make for good messaging.
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Lord.html
Boomerang – Big
Business Style
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/04/boomerang-big-business-style/
Federal Reserve
Hopes to Make Bank Runs Obsolete
https://www.populist.com/29.08.Anderson.html
HELP Committee:
Nomination of Julie Su – Apr 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNRk1-r5KvI
Working families
deserve to have a Secretary of Labor who is going to stand up and fight for
them. – Apr 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rczZch64C38
Facebook's $725
Million Privacy Settlement: How to Claim Your Share of the Money: Almost anyone
in the US who's used Facebook since 2007 can collect.
Capitalism Hits
Home: BRICS & The End of US Dominance – Apr 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x3KqdE1ZmY
I’m proud to
stand with the new UAW leadership. – Apr 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZB55crNzDY
Top Democrat
BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN with speech of the year – Apr 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSUyhEpNd1c
Why GOP &
SCOTUS Conspired To Ruin Biden Economy & Cause a Depression – Apr 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7JZSerJ_l8
Americans Go
Hungry, Economic Growth Under Pressure as SNAP Benefits Expire: Enhanced SNAP
grocery benefits ended in 32 states in March.
Morgan Stanley sees $50 billion annualized impact on Q1 GDP. Economic growth slowed to a 1.1 percent
annualized pace in the first quarter of 2023 from a 2.6 percent increase in the
fourth quarter last year [perhaps caused by the increase of interest rates by
the Fed]
US adult
cigarette smoking rate hits new all-time low
https://apnews.com/article/how-many-people-smoke-us-64987fe2b7bf764c64d4594e5b02e6ea
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: April 28, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167062.1210.209&gen=1
Did Greed Fuel
The Witch Hunts? – Apr 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uL5ApBxjtc
FDIC prepares to
place First Republic under receivership
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/first-republic-shares-gain-hopes-rescue-deal-2023-04-28/
Report: FAA
overruled engineers, let Boeing Max keep flying
https://apnews.com/article/boeing-max-crashes-faa-ea8fac0ad2758b08c58d2d64756fbf37
The battle over
the debt limit: What to know after the House GOP passed its bill
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/apr/28/the-battle-over-the-debt-limit-an-update/
How Finland
Virtually Ended Homelessness—and We Can Too: It turns out the very best thing
to do is give people who don't have a place to live... a place to live.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-finland-solved-homelessness
Uprising in
France: the urgency of coordination from below
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/04/17/uprising-in-france-the-urgency-of-coordination-from-below/
Review | The
Communist Road to Capitalism and The Left in China
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/04/19/review-the-communist-road-to-capitalism-and-the-left-in-china/
UCU dispute:
members can win the marking and assessment boycott
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/04/28/ucu-dispute-members-can-win-the-marking-and-assessment-boycott/
Why Disney Is
Really Defying DeSantis: Disney’s lawsuit against Florida is more about being
able to reap profits while underpaying workers than it is about protecting
LGBTQ communities.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/defying-desantis
Worker Militancy
Fueling Surge in Union Growth: We have an enormous opportunity to fight back
against those exploiting the working class and seeking to undermine our unity.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/worker-militancy
Young Americans
Traveling to Cuba and Break the Siege: This brigade is an intervention into the
endless attempts of the United States to silence and strangle the successes of
the Cuban socialist project.
https://www.laprogressive.com/latin-america-2/young-americans-traveling-to-cuba
Fact
Check-Antineoplastons not a proven ‘cancer cure’ and not an approved treatment
We need to address
the severe crises we are facing... – May 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr5hxi_Xm00
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: May 3, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167073.826.265&gen=1
Fed’s Interest
Rate Hike Unleashes Economic Plague Of Bloodsuckers w/Greg Palast – May 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYKNHemgLu8
US labor market
softens as job openings drop, layoffs at highest level in over two years
Cruel, Rising
Inequality: William Lazonick, Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory
Value Extraction in the U.S. Corporation. A Review
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/cruel-rising-inequality
RAISE THE WAGE –
May 5, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxlBUxbI_c
HELP Committee
Hearing: Preparing for the Next Public Health Emergency – May 5, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uJJTSrzzy0
A brief guide to
fats
https://www.legion.org/magazine/258864/brief-guide-fats
Yellen Says No
Good Alternative to Congress Lifting Debt Cap.
Use of 14th amendment would provoke constitutional crisis. Says Biden can’t avoid financial catastrophe
without Congress
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: US Indebtedness & Capitalism's Internal Contradictions – May 8,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exxMuQ-vELo
Silicon Valley
Bank regulators failed to assess collapsed bank’s risks: report. Silicon Valley Bank regulators failed to
identify and assess fast-expanding risks and hazards that doomed the
tech-oriented financial firm.
Insulin for All:
A Roundtable Discussion with Insulin Patients – May 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cny4PZjFxo
Senate Health,
Labor, Education, and Pensions Committee Hearing: The High Cost of Rx Drugs –
May 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdLT3o7ZnyU
Capitalism Hits
Home: Capitalism’s Impact on Our Personal Lives – May 11, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwVxCe-gTZQ
Drug companies
claim over and over again they need HUGE profits... – May 11, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz8d8caoW2A
Oakland teachers
strike day 6: District pushes back on ‘common good’ measures. The district says
full implementation of the union’s ‘common good’ proposal would cost more than
$1 billion
Celebrating 40
years of the Orphan Drug Act on Rare Disease Day
https://catalyst.phrma.org/celebrating-40-years-of-the-orphan-drug-act-on-rare-disease-day
10 Stomach
Symptoms You Should Never Ignore: They can signal cancer, COVID-19 or another
serious disease
https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/stomach-symptoms.html
How Cigna Saves
Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims
How Many Words
Does It Take to Say “Class War”?
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-many-words-does-it-take-to-say#details
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: May 12, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167081.973.54&gen=1
When Politicians
do the Hiring
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Rollins.html
College Isn’t for
Everybody, But It Works for a Lot
https://www.populist.com/29.09.McMillen.html
FROMA HARROP: Do
you worry that your bank is too liberal?
Coming Up:
Another Round of Shameless, Senseless SNAP Fights
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Guebert.html
Oakland Unified
school district warns graduations in jeopardy if teachers strike continues. Teacher’s union representatives said
significant progress is being made toward a deal to restart classes Monday.
Breaking Down
Your Tax Bill: Our tax dollars should make life better, not go to waste. But
the average taxpayer had to shell out over $1,000 for military contractors
alone last year.
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Koshgarian.html
Don’t Shed the Safety
Net — Expand It. Conservative lawmakers
are threatening to slash the programs that helped my family escape poverty. We
should be doing the opposite.
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Daugherty.html
Will the Fed
Wreck an Improving Economy? Both the
inflation and the employment outlook continue to improve.
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Kuttner.html
Double Trouble:
Water and Workers in California’s Imperial County
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Sandronsky.html
Why Do the
Richest Americans Live a Decade Longer Than the Poorest? Falling life expectancy is no accident—it is
a direct result, and failure, of policy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/life-expectancy-america-social-security-healthcare/
A Variation on
the Healthcare Game of ‘Gotcha’: The Facility Fee
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Retsinas.html
Getting Old is
Serious Business
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Uretsky.html
Medicaid Cutoffs:
An American Horror Story: Some 15 million Americans on Medicaid are now being
thrown off the program. No elected official should stand for this.
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Dzurinko.html
Joe Biden’s
French Lesson
https://www.populist.com/29.09.OLeary.html
Higher Ed
Organizing Is Part of the Fight to Transform Work
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Kalet.html
Biden’s Blarney:
What Joe Biden Did Not Say to Irish Parliament
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Joseph.html
Support Your
Local Librarians, Reject Book Bans: Ninety percent of Americans trust local
librarians, but outside groups are invading communities with demands to ban
books and shut down services.
https://www.populist.com/29.09.Harris.html
The Oakland
teachers strike is over; school to resume instruction Tuesday. The Oakland teachers strike is over after the
district and union announced a tentative agreement early Monday morning. School
is set to resume to regular instruction on Tuesday.
How Open
Bargaining—and Not Letting Management Set the Ground Rules—Led to a Union
Victory
In 2017, Kentucky
became the most recent “right-to-work” state in the US. Which makes the recent
victory by the Amalgamated Transit Union all the more significant.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-bargaining-atu-louisville/
Should Courts Be
Able to Mandate Psychiatric Care? Sasha
Abramsky argues that court-mandated care connects unhoused individuals to
supportive services, while Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu and Ruth Sangree
write that psychiatric incarceration is cruel and ineffective.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mandatory-psychiatric-care-debate/
How Fran Drescher
Went From TV Nanny to Union Boss: Drescher was once network TV’s working-class
darling—now, as head of SAG-AFTRA, does she have what it takes to marshal the
collective power of a deeply divided union?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fran-drescher-sag-aftra/
Does the Harvard
Kennedy School Serve the People—or Power?
The elite public policy and government school may have reversed course
on Kenneth Roth, but its deep ties to Wall Street and Washington remain.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/israel-wexner-harvard-kennedy-school/
System Failure:
The world Palo Alto made.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/palo-alto-malcolm-harris-review/
Sink or Swim:
Emma Cline’s novel of pool parties and class conflict.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/emma-cline-the-guest/
The Dialectician:
The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/clr-james-a-life/
Medicare for All
Town Hall – May 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBrtWL0VIwk
No Default, No
Cuts – May 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rad2FWQ37eE
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: May 19, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167091.986.161&gen=1
The Ukraine grain
deal is extended 2 months, helping ease the global food crisis
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176686447/ukraine-grain-deal-extended-russia-turkey-united-nations
Sen. John
Fetterman schools bank executives: why no "work requirements" for
bailouts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj5mVlJjcPo
“I Felt That I
Had Saved My Own Life”: A Polish Woman’s Harrowing Story of Illegal
Abortion. Polish activist Justyna
Wydrzyńska is the first woman in Europe to be convicted of “intent to aid” an
abortion. For the first time, the woman she helped, Ania, tells the story of
her desperate quest to end her pregnancy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pregnancy-abortion-poland/
The Revolutionary
Potential of the Inflation Reduction Act: The direct-pay feature of the IRA
creates an opportunity for the public sector to start building things again.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-reduction-act-direct-pay/
Exploitation,
Abuse, and Death: The Dark Side of Working in the Weed Industry. The cannabis industry is booming, but workers
say they face low wages, rapacious bosses, and life-threatening conditions.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cannabis-industry-worker-safety/
The Anarchism of
the Catholic Worker: In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is
reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/catholic-worker-dorothy-day-peter-maurin/
Extremist
Republicans are now saying... – May 21, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvA2we4vmM0
Biden and
McCarthy to meet on Monday as debt ceiling talks resume
Small businesses
are beginning to panic about a government default. Construction firms, grocers and mental health
professionals say they could face “catastrophic” consequences if Congress
doesn’t lift the debt ceiling in time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/20/debt-ceiling-small-business/
What Happens If
the U.S. Doesn’t Raise the Debt Ceiling? - Robert Reich on The Last Word –
MSNBC – May 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBtRQ2OyMc
It is time for
Medicare for All. – May 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIMmNKK8V6U
Hayes: What the
Republican debt ceiling threat is really about – May 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWQ4IkhGbTA
Republicans say
they are concerned about the national debt... – May 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0-ipeSilw
These 40+
American Companies Are No Longer American
https://www.thedelite.com/american-companies-that-are-no-longer-american
“Open House”: The
cover artist for this week’s issue, Marcellus Hall, discusses rent, real
estate, and making a home in the city.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-05-29
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: An Important Update from David Harvey – May 23, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eob3mxjt858
Inside the Battle
Between Big Ag and Lab-Grown Meat: Industry giants and cellular-meat upstarts
are in a lobbying war over consumer labeling.
https://newrepublic.com/article/171709/inside-battle-big-ag-lab-grown-meat
The Right’s War
on Student Debtors May Cost Us All: Is the Supreme Court willing to unleash legal
chaos to defeat Biden’s loan cancellation program?
https://newrepublic.com/article/171713/rights-war-student-debtors-may-cost-us
As Rail Profits
Soar, Blocked Crossings Force Kids to Crawl Under Trains to Get to School
https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern
Free the Debt
Hostage
https://www.populist.com/29.10.Edit.html
Steve Rattner
Explains Your Life's Purpose for You
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/04/23/steve-rattner-explains-your-lifes-purpose-for-you
Here’s Something
Good About Texas! Author,
agitator and activist Jim Hightower spreads the good word of true populism,
under the simple notion that "everybody does better, when everybody
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/heres-something-good-about-texas#details
It’s the Farm
Bill Season
https://www.populist.com/29.10.McMillen.html
Building Safer
Workplaces
https://m.usw.org/blog/2023/building-safer-workplaces
Victory at
Rutgers, But the Fight Continues: We Must Continue to Challenge the
Corporatization of Higher Ed
https://www.populist.com/29.10.Kalet.html
Google AI Expert
Warns of Massive Uptick in Productivity Growth: No Problems with Social
Security
My Advice to
Biden on Debt Ceiling Faceoff With GOP: Play Hard Ball. A debt ceiling that prevents the federal
government from honoring its existing financial commitments violates the
Constitution.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/debt-ceiling-hard-ball-joe-biden
Jesse Jackson:
Who gets the gold and who gets the shaft?
https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/jesse-jackson-who-gets-the-gold-and-who-gets-the-shaft/
COVID Capitalism
Segues into Fraud
https://www.populist.com/29.10.Retsinas.html
The More Things
Quack
https://www.populist.com/29.10.Uretsky.html
The Federal
Reserve Board’s Collateral Damage
https://www.populist.com/29.10.Joseph.html
The Emerging New
World Economy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/04/17/the-emerging-new-world-economy/
Labor Report from
State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, May 25, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167102.693.115&gen=1
The Republicans
holding the entire world economy hostage...
Senator Bernie Sanders – May 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2iyoGnGaHQ
The protests in
France are about to collide with the 2024 Paris Olympics
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/paris-france-olympics-protests/
I'm Sick. You're
Sick. We've All Been Sick for a Year -- Here's Why.
Opinion: House
Republicans walk the plank
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/28/debt-ceiling-house-gop-budget-cuts/
The Debt Ceiling
Drama Is All Stagecraft: Remember: The US Treasury is obligated to make
payments. The rest is optics.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/debt-ceiling-yellen-spending-cuts/
Writers Like Me
Have Shut Down Hollywood. Here’s Why.
The Writers Guild of America is on strike because Hollywood bosses have
treated our demands for fair and sustainable working conditions with contempt.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/writers-strike-explainer-gondelman/
These Unions Are
on the Front Lines Fighting Against the Uberization of Us All: Some long
established unions are challenging Silicon Valley’s agenda by pushing back on
AI, surveillance, and wage theft.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wga-oea-ups-teamsters-strikes/
A Cleaner World
Lies in Nationalized Banking: The private financial sector tosses a
climate-conscious sheen over its horrific practices, but the best thing it
could do for the planet would be to get very public—very quickly.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/clean-world-in-banking/
One Big Union:
The Red Scare and the fall of the IWW.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wobblies-red-scare-under-iron-heel/
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