Working to make working conditions better for everyone, and freeing up a little more freedom where he can
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"Earth's Greatest Enemy"-- a brilliant documentary by Abby Martin and her Empire Files team. earthsgreatestenemy.com/. youtube.com/empirefiles.
It focuses on the demented and cruel reality of military industrial despoliation of our ecosystems and atmosphere.
A follow up to my last post about 1993 and NAFTA. Here's another key political change that foretold of further working class decline in the US, this one from 1978: edsource.org/2022/california…
As analyses roll in talking about this being an inflection point in American politics, we should pause to consider a perhaps more significant moment in our political history that started it all: 1993. theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
From the Political Economy rapid response team--Information Observatory. Our Kind of Villain* informationobservatory.info/… via @shinjoung
Richard Maxwell retweeted
We're living in the #enshittocene, in which the forces of enshittification are turning everything from our cars to our streaming services to our dishwashers into thoroughly enshittifified piles of shit. Call it the Great Enshittening:
pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/l…
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ALT A pair of early 20th century women strikers in formal dresses with sashes reading 'PICKET STRIKERS.' The left striker's head has been replaced with a 'hacker-in-a-hoodie' cliche. The left one's jacket has been turned Deliveroo blue. She's wearing a matching bike helmet and carrying a Deliveroo food-delivery insulated backpack. They are posed on a background of a giant union conference at Madison Square Gardens, under a banner reading 'ON WITH THE STRIKE! ON TO VICTORY!'
I'm thinking about the inspiring and heartbreaking history of Allende's Chile and the visionary cybersyn project. youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho…
Ok Communication and media colleagues, we have homework...
A major new report on the censorship-industrial complex - a citizen's starter kit from Racket. By @mtaibbi with contributions from myself, @technofog @bergerbell @SchmidtSue1 @tw6384 and more
racket.news/p/report-on-the-…
nothing like a little political economic analysis on a cold saturday
This video (from @foldablehuman) is long, but it is PHENOMENAL, the best synthesis of the tech, political and economic critique of NFTs, DAOs, crypto and web3 I've yet seen (h/t @waxy)
youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1…
COP 26--progress or a salve to fossil fuel addicts? The latest from Greening the Media. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
I always liked the actor-activist David Clennon. Here's his critical look at the aristocracy of talent in Hollywood and its anti-union "unionism." Part 1. counterpunch.org/2021/10/14/…
Why do corporations act irrationally to block climate action? The answer might be found in the psychology of corporate greed. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
