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Global Left Midweek - November 27, 2019

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Women Stand Up! Palestine Takes On Trump! Also Three Reports from South America, UK Labour Manifesto, Revolutionary World Music, and Shack Dwellers Organize in South Africa!

Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees

Will Evans The Atlantic
This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety.

Twenty Years Later, Remembering the Battle in Seattle

Jeff Engels Labor Notes
Our message to the world was clear: Corporate globalization and so-called “free trade” had gone far enough. We were ready to take a stand against the neoliberal agenda, for together we believed another world was possible.

Message from Portside Moderators (We're in This Together!)

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The times are testing whether democracy and the rule of law, under the most ferocious and sustained assault in generations, will survive. We only ask once a year: If you like what we do, this is the time to support Portside.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars - November 26, 2019

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Blade Runner is Now / Liberals and Woke Culture / Clean White Nationalism / The Right to Sanitation / Rabid Against Reproductive Rights / Kids for School Desegregation / ICE vs Black Sheriffs / Bella Ciao!