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Friday Nite Videos | February 24, 2023

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Psychedelic Assisted Therapy | John Oliver. What Ever Happened to Hazel Scott? Gloves Off: Buttigieg Calls Out Trump Record of Deregulation. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Documentary. The Completely Predictable Resurrection of John Hagee.

ILWU, ITF Secure Wages, Safety of Asian Seafarers in Tacoma

the Stand
“Seafarers are an invisible link in the global chain and are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation,” Faker said. “Workers in the Port of Tacoma were not going to let this vessel go anywhere while these workers’ lives were in peril.”

Tidbits – Feb. 23, 2023 – Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black History; Earthquake Hits Syria Too; FBI Still Uses Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building Resilient Organizations

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Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black History; Syria Hit by Earthquake, too; FBI Still Uses Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building Resilient Organizations; Cartoons; more...

The Catastrophe of American Health Care

Abby Cartus Abby Cartus
Our current system defines health as the ability to work. Those who can’t are abandoned and exploited. If you’re too sick to work, you will be forced into poverty twice over: First by the loss of wages, and second, if lucky, by SSDI, or poverty.

You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State

Peter Beinart New York Times
Israeli democracy is in danger, demonstrations include very few Palestinians. It’s not a movement for equal rights. It’s a movement to preserve the political system that existed before the coalition took power - to save liberal democracy for Jews.