How Ticketmaster Is Destroying Live Music

Ticketmaster is destroying live music. Fees as much as 78% of a ticket. Controlling events, venues, even artists. There’s a movement pushing the Justice Department to take on their monopoly. Cory Doctorow breaks it down.

Doctors Finally Join the Labor Movement

Karim Sariahmed The Nation
A challenge to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx by a broad coalition of its own workers is a frontline struggle against the most exploitative tendencies of the whole industry.

In Ukraine

Beau Beausoleil
San Francisco poet Beau Beausoleil reminds us that the war in Ukraine goes on, people are dying, all obscured by political shadows and dubious communications.

Dismantling Bretton Woods To Pay the Climate Bill

Tina Gerhardt The Nation
Mia Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, has a plan to create a new financial system that would fund climate spending. She put forward the Bridgetown Agenda would suspend IMF debt payments for the poorest countries.

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