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Amazon Transformed Seattle. Now, Its Workers Are Poised to Take It Back.

E. Tammy Kim The New York Times
A growing segment of the general population now recognizes the threat of “Amazon capitalism”: what scholars describe as reflecting “the larger global trend of the increasing influence of finance capitalism, neoliberal politics and corporate power."

‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns

Wesley Morris The New York Times
The movie’s got Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King and Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, in top, electric form. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing— footage from the Harlem Cultural Festival.

Amazon Transformed Seattle. Now, Its Workers Are Poised to Take It Back

By E. Tammy Kim The New York Times
Protesters with picket signs
In the coming years, Amazon will most likely become the largest private employer in the United States — perhaps even the world. It already employs nearly a million U.S. workers and indirectly commands many more thousands of contracted drivers.

Nina Turner Is Reaching Forward and Reaching Back

Sarah Jaffe The American Prospect
Her willingness to learn from her base, while holding fast to principles and being willing to take a public stand even when that stand might cost her, offers a lesson to the party in how to evolve in the years to come.