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March 26, 2019

Musicians Union Vows Fight for Streaming Residuals as Contract Extended

Jonathan Handel The Hollywood Reporter

As production shifts to streaming platforms that pay players no residuals, their relatively powerless guild confronts the looming threat of "deresidualization."

March 26, 2019

Thousands of Uber Drivers are Striking in Los Angeles

Alexia Fernández Campbell Vox

LA drivers want Uber to scrap the pay cut. They also want a raise. They want the company to reverse a 25 percent-per-mile pay cut.

March 26, 2019

Trump’s Golan Heights Bombshell Reverses 40 years of US Policy and Throws Middle East into Turmoil

Scott Lucas The Conversation

As with other Trump impulses, such as his sudden order in December to withdraw all US troops from Syria, no administration official appeared to have been consulted.

March 26, 2019

Venezuela, US Solidarity, and the Future of Socialism

Steve Striffler Common Dreams

"The inability of the US left to frame how Venezuela was understood during the high point of Chavismo has left us largely helpless now, a failure of solidarity . . . with ongoing consequences for Venezuela."

March 26, 2019

“We Demand Food for Thought”: UIC Grad Workers On Strike for Living Wages and Respect

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank In These Times

The strike is the result of more than a year of negotiations between UIC Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) Local 6297 and the university administration. Since September 2018, 1,500 teaching and graduate assistants have worked without a contract.

March 26, 2019

Us and Jordan Peele’s New Horror

Vann R. Newkirk 11 The Atlantic

In his latest film the comedian turned director continues to reinvent how the genre uses fear to comment on humanity’s evil. Us is a movie about marginalization, about those “Americans” rising up from the underclasses and dispossessing the masters.

March 26, 2019