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October 15, 2020

Tidbits - Oct. 15, 2020 - Reader Comments: Right-Wing Plots - Kidnap Governors, Voter Suppression, Supreme Court; 2020 Elections; Learning from History - Nonviolence, Self-Defense and Provocateurs; 50-50 All Souls to the Polls Concert This Weekend; more

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Reader Comments: Right Wing Plots - Kidnap Governors, Voter Suppression, Take Over Judiciary, Supreme Court; 2020 Elections; Learning from History - Nonviolence, Self-Defense and Provocateurs; 50-50 All Souls to the Polls Concert This Weekend; more

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October 15, 2020

They Keep Global Trade Afloat – Now 400,000 Seafarers, Stranded Since the Start of the Pandemic, Just Want to Go Home

Cristina Belda Font Equal Times

Stranded seafarers and port workers are facing physical and mental exhaustion, trapped on shipboard since the pandemic began. They do not have access to shore leave; some have been denied emergency medical treatment.

October 14, 2020

Global Left Midweek - Think Pieces and Hot News

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Fascism pushed back in Greece and Nigeria * Workers rumble in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Germany

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October 13, 2020

'They Refused to Act': Inside a Chilling Documentary on Trump's Bungled Covid-19 Response

Adrian Horton The Guardian

Totally Under Control recounts the early days of the pandemic in the US, revealing in clinical detail a disastrous federal response to a preventable crisis

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October 10, 2020

Moneybags for Billionaires, Body Bags for Workers: Organizing in the Time of Pandemics

Sheri Davis Faulkner and Marilyn Sneiderman New Labor Forum

In 2020, COVID and the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police revealed the extent to which people of color and the entire working class is confronting the economic injustice and racism of a political system stacked in favor of elites.

October 10, 2020

Murder, He Said - America’s Maestro of Death and Destruction

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch

In 2016, Donald Trump said "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible." He is indeed a murderer, but as president, he's proven to be anything but a smalltime killer.

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October 13, 2020

The Most Heartbreaking Part of Alex Gibney’s COVID Doc Is How Close We Came to Getting It Right

Sam Adams Slate

Totally Under Control takes viewers back to a time when the pandemic could still have been contained.

October 10, 2020

Trump’s Minnesota Visit had Him Acting Like a Proud Boy

Sarah Lahm The Progressive

Amid “white power” chants and maskless rallies, the President spreads hate (and likely COVID-19) during Minnesota fundraiser and campaign rally.

October 8, 2020

Tidbits - Oct. 8, 2020 - Reader Comments: 2020 Elections, Proud Boys, Kyle Rittenhouse, Whiter Terrorists; COVID-19, Trump Super Spreader; Climate Change; China; Indigenous Peoples; Stopping Voter Suppression; more...

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Reader Comments: 2020 Elections, Proud Boys, Kyle Rittenhouse, White Terrorists; COVID-19, Trump Super Spreader; Climate Change; China; Indigenous Peoples; Stopping Voter Suppression; more...

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October 6, 2020

Leaked: Confidential Amazon Memo Reveals New Software to Track Unions

Jason Del Rey and Shirin Ghaffary Vox

The memo discovery comes just a month after a report drew attention to two Amazon job listings posted in August seeking “intelligence analysts” to research “labor organizing threats against the company.”

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