Global Left Midweek – Indigenous in the World
Portside
Reports and analyses from the world left's hot spots
Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.
The New York Times
Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.
Brandon Johnson Is Heading to Chicago’s Mayoral Runoff as a Champion of the Working Class
Jacobin
The results of last night’s Chicago mayor election were stunning: former Chicago Teachers Union organizer Brandon Johnson advanced to an April runoff against neoliberal architect Paul Vallas — pitting working-class power against austerity.
The GOP’s Grand Immigration Con Job
Hartmann Report
Republicans have figured out how to have it both ways. They get cheap labor for their big business buddies, while stoking the hate and fear of their white racist base
OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not To Be: Corporate, Closed-Source, and For-Profit
VICE
OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – February 28, 2023
Portside
Dilbert's race problem, how COVID affected the labor market, and more cultural crackups
Why We Need Pirates
Yes! Magazine
Exploited sailors escaped to form egalitarian outlaw societies under the Jolly Roger.
In 1996, There Was Union Summer. This Year, There’s “Labor Spring.”
In These Times
“Labor Spring” brings back a national teach-in on organizing to campuses across the country.
50 Years On, Legacy of Wounded Knee Uprising Lives in Indigenous Resistance
Common Dreams
"We're not the subjugated and disenfranchised people that we were," said one Ponca elder who took part in the 1973 revolt. "Wounded Knee was an important beginning of that."
Inequality Is Weakening Social Security. Here’s How We Fix That.
Inequality.org
When Congress set the cap on Social Security contributions in 1983, they didn’t anticipate forty years of rising inequality. And it’s cost us — a lot.
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