On How there is no Restaurant Worker Shortage, only a Shortage of Safe Jobs with Adequate Pay
John Buell | juancole.com | 2021-05-24
From the earliest days of the Pandemic relief initiatives business lobbies and conservative pundits have griped about the $600 Federal Unemployment Insurance supplement. They complained that combined state and federal programs would give many employed workers more income than they received in their current jobs. Workers would have an incentive to stay home to sit …
juancole.com/2021/05/restaurant-shortage-adequate.html
Intro to Abolition
priscilla | dsausa.org | 2021-05-24
RSVP Here What is abolition? Why should socialists care about abolition? Join the Abolition Working Group on June 3rd at 8 pm EST for an introductory call that answers these questions on why this work matters, how socialism and abolition go hand in hand, and how you can plug your chapter in going forward. Abolition…
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Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University's "Innovation Campus"
wsws.org | 2021-05-24
The donation is the largest in the university's history and was announced as part of an effort to focus on "diversity."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/24/tech-m24.html
Weapons of War on Our Streets: The Militarization of America's Police
Sam Jacobs | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-24
The claim often …
globalresearch.ca/weapons-war-streets-guide-militarization-america-police/5746000
Family Offices: Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital You Haven't Heard About
Chuck Collins | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
Don't be surprised if you haven't heard of a family office as they fly below the radar. I explore the role of family offices in the larger "wealth defense industry" in my new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books). And Kalena Thomhave and I make the case for…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/family-offices-trillion-dollar-pools-of-unregulated-capital-you-havent-heard-about/
In Working-Class NJ Town, Activists Push to Invest in Community, Not Police
George Ygarza | zcomm.org | 2021-05-24
Abolitionists are confronting racial capitalism and policing in…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/in-working-class-nj-town-activists-push-to-invest-in-community-not-police/
Mysterious Drone Strikes Destroyed Several Hangars In Syria's Deir Ezzor — Report
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-23
Illustrative image. | On May 23 morning, unidentified combat drones carried out a series of strikes on the outskirts of the town of al-Bukamal in southern Deir Ezzor. The government-held town is located right on the border with Iraq. | According to the Naher Media, a local pro-opposition news blog, the strikes destroyed a number of newly-built hangars in al-Hamdan desert. The strikes didn't result in any human losses. | Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun, Afghan and Pakistani armed groups supported by the Iranian Islamic Re…
southfront.org/mysterious-drone-strikes-destroyed-several-hangars-in-syrias-deir-ezzor-report/
What is a solidarity economy — and can it save us from capitalism?
Luke Ottenhof | zcomm.org | 2021-05-23
"Mutual aid has to exist because our other systems are so deeply failing us."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-is-a-solidarity-economy-and-can-it-save-us-from-capitalism/