Global Left Midweek – December 20, 2023
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A time to try the soul of humanity
A time to try the soul of humanity
A time to try the soul of humanity
New Biden Policy Boosting Migrant Worker Protections
Common Dreams
"This is a huge victory for undocumented workers and the labor movement," said one organizer.
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The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters
The New Yorker
A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing exploitation, injury, and death.
Israel Sends Weapons to Duterte: Filipinx and Palestinian Struggle Are Linked
Truthout
While the Philippines and Palestine might not be obviously linked in popular imaginary, there is a complicated web of relations — threaded through militarism, settler colonialism, empire and racial capitalism — that binds these entities together.
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Migrant Worker Crisis: Why Trade Unions are Missing in India’s Informal Sector
The News Minute
The pandemic crisis necessitates the need for solidarity among the working class. A revival of trade unions, focusing on new strategies that can fully adapt to the dynamics of India’s informal economy, is vital for building up this solidarity.
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“We Need to Empower Home-based Workers by Investing in More Co-operatives. Unity Builds Strength and Resilience”
Equal Times
Home-based workers are not even officially recognised as workers, so there have been no special schemes set up for them. Our people have no social security, no pensions and no insurance. Now there’s no work which means no income.
America's Farmworkers - Now `Essential,' but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits
The American Prospect
The undocumented workers who pick the nation's food are excluded from the CARES Act.
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Migrant Workers in Thailand are Organizing to Combat Exploitation by the Country's Fishing Industry
GlobalVoices
In a country where migrant workers fear deportation, and in an industry where employers often physically abuse workers, the process of union-building is a slow task that requires building relationships of trust amongst fishers.
Global Left Midweek - January 2, 2019
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AMLO Sworn in as Mexico's President, An Assassination in Oaxaca, Mass Protests in Serbia, The Vests Persist, Cuba's New Constitution, Migrant Workers in Korea, Unrest in Iran, Global Year
The Left Case Against Open Borders -- A Review
Choosing Democracy
A long-time immigrant rights activist offers a critique of The Left Case against Open Borders, by Angela Nagel.
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