Racial Capitalism – ‘Because I’m Black All the Time’
Organizing Upgrade
Why is Amazon a symbol of racial capitalism?
Until the End, Filipino Union Leader Dandy Miguel Fought for Workers' Rights
Rappler
Gunshot wounds and blood are unable to conceal the text on the red shirt worn by labor rights leader Dandy Miguel the night he was killed: 'Sahod, trabaho, karapatan, ipaglaban' (Fight for salary, jobs, and rights).
Pentagon Campaign to Recruit Vietnam as Military Ally Against China Exposed Delusions of US War Strategy
The Grayzone
After convincing itself Vietnam would grant it access for missile bases against China, the Pentagon got a hard dose of reality.
Farmworkers Need Families, Not Deportation and Exploitation
The Reality Check
High-wages and secure jobs for farmworkers can only come by discarding the old deportation/guestworker model, and instead supporting families with legalization, family-based visas, and unions and labor rights.
An Offering to Our Asian Sisters
From the Square/NYU Press Blogs
Join the Anti-Racist marches in the streets, and stand up for structural revolutionary anti-racist socialist feminism.
Men, Meat, and Marketing
Food & Wine
The makers of plant-based meats are up against decades—if not centuries and millennia—of messaging tying meat eating to masculinity.
Pandemic Discrimination Against Asian Americans Has Long Roots
Labor Notes
The pandemic isn’t the whole story. Many working-class Asian American women have faced mistreatment throughout their working lives over their English language ability, class, gender, race, and immigration status.
The Amazon Union Vote Is Over. Here’s What Happens Now.
Vox
Whether or not the union’s challenge in Bessemer fails, Amazon will face labor battles elsewhere.
The Power of Televising Derek Chauvin’s Trial
Vox
We saw George Floyd die onscreen. We need to see this too.
Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Commission Won’t Fix Anything
Vox
The president’s new commission has a lot of fans — in the Federalist Society.
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