Global Left Midweek – November 15, 2023
Portside
Moment of truth in Myanmar
Moment of truth in Myanmar
Moment of truth in Myanmar
film
While You Were Sleeping Is a Delightful Holiday Rom-Com About a Union Transit Worker
Jacobin
The 1995 Christmas rom-com While You Were Sleeping stars Sandra Bullock as a union transit worker in Chicago. Over 25 years later, it’s still a delightful working-class holiday watch.
labor
Six Months Into the Pandemic, Transit Workers Are Still Dying—With No End in Sight
THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
Though they’ve kept working in some of the most dangerous jobs, they’re now facing the prospect of furloughs and layoffs if there’s no more federal funding for transit.
labor
Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns
CityLab
Bus drivers and subway workers are dying from coronavirus at an alarming rate, and transit union leaders are calling for aggressive action to make them safer.
Police and Communities: It's Complicated
Portside
In New York, some of the very former governors and mayors who gave the police hell to get raises, insisted on underpaying them, leaving them without contracts for years on end are today, once again, claiming to be their best defenders and crusaders. Why is that?
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