Amazon’s Anti-Union Model and the Damage Done

Paris Marx Jacobin
Canadian postal workers are striking for fair wages and better working conditions. This is putting them in direct conflict with the business model Amazon champions, where workers are treated as disposable and unions are crushed.

On Progress

Ruben Quesada Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Brutal Companion
In the shadow of 9/11, poet Ruben Quesada shows us the destructiveness and death that come with "progress."

Union | (Amazon) Documentary

The day-to-day struggles of the Amazon Labor Union, an immersive portrait that celebrates solidarity while acknowledging the difficult decisions and internal conflicts

What Happens When R's Lose: The NC Test Case

R's suffered a near wipeout in North Carolina, but the outgoing legislature is attempting a truly Trumpian power grab to thwart the expressed will of the voters and to eviscerate democracy

Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales

The story of the 1948 plane crash that took the lives of 32 passengers told by Woody Guthrie's poem Deportee, performed with guttural vocals, hard-edged, stripped down, foot-stomping acoustic instrumentation

Dr. Strangekennedy

Rick Perlstein The American Prospect
The reactionary playbook frames all COVID-era public-health measures as an elite conspiracy to enrich what it calls “a small group of highly paid and unaccountable insiders.” It's also flypaper for conspiracy theorists on the left.

Extinct Hominin Species Lived Side by Side 1.5 Million Years Ago

Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Kevin Hatala and Purity Kiura The Conversation
These fossil footprints are the first definitive evidence ever that two hominin species – one our likely ancestor and the other a more distant relative – actually coexisted at the same time and place on the muddy shoreline of Lake Turkana