Low Wage Workers: 'We Can’t Breathe'

Robert Borosage and Richard Long Campaign for America's Future
Low wage workers in more than 180 cities stage strikes and demonstrations demanding a $15 minimum wage and the right to organize. They are protesting an economic order in which they have no way to breathe.

The Civil Rights Movement Came Out of a Moment Like This One

Dani McClain The Nation
We find ourselves at a similar moment, fifty years after that critical turning point in civil rights movement history, with “Again?” on our lips and a familiar feeling of dread in response to the violence we witness on the video of the killing of Eric Garner, the incredible amount of force used on a man who announced over and over again, “I can’t breathe.” We need again vision and big thinking—a commitment to playing offense and addressing the problems at their roots.

The Feather and the Cannonball Stage a Race ...

Physicist Brian Cox visits a NASA facility to witness an experiment that brings together 'light as a feather' and 'like a lead balloon' in airless conditions that mimic outer space. Gravitational insights courtesy of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.

Film: She's Beautiful When She's Angry

Artfully combining dramatizations, performance and archival imagery, this film recounts the stories of women who founded the modern women's equality movement. In theaters Dec. 5.

Springsteen: My Oklahoma Home

Bruce Springsteen, live in Dublin, sings Woody Guthrie's classic song of humor for surviving Dust Bowl and Depression."All except my mortgage blowed away." 

Eric Garner Chokehold Protests in New York

Thousands take to the streets in New York in protest the decision not to prosecute Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer who killed Eric Garner using a chokehold.
 

Friday Nite Videos -- December 5, 2014

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Chokehold Death Protests. Economic Agenda for America. Springsteen: My Oklahoma Home. She's Beautiful When She's Angry. The Feather and the Cannonball.

The Battle Over Working Time: A Countermovement Against Neoliberalism

David Bensman The American Prospect
Campaigns for social control of capital look different from social democratic movements that began in the 1870s and endured through the mid-1960s. Thus many underestimate the significance of the Occupy Movement, the mobilization of domestic workers, immigrants, restaurant and fast food workers, home healthcare workers, self-employed women workers, tomato pickers or the landless. Nonetheless, we should recognize that these campaigns all challenge capital.

Tidbits - December 4, 2014

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Reader Comments- Race inequality...by the Numbers; Darren Wilson Acquittal; Workers and Students Leave Jobs, Classes in Nationwide Walkout for Ferguson; Thanksgiving; Univ of Virginia Finally Confronts Its Rape Problem; Madison Teachers Recertify Union; Walmart Black Friday Protests; Price of 13-Year War on Terror; Chile; Israel's Jewish State Bill; 2014 and Future Elections; ALEC Blueprint for 2015; Wanted: A Challenge to Clinton; Chicago's Mayoral Race (correction)