Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive The Biden Presidency By Dean Spade, ROAR Magazine. November 30, 2020 Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive The Biden Presidency2020-11-302020-11-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/roar-e1606767988499.jpg200px200px Above photo: Father and daughter during a Black Lives Matter protest in New Jersey. June 4, 2020. Jess Pomponio / Shutterstock.com. Biden and Harris are not going to stop the crises we are facing. Mutual aid projects are essential to survive and build the world we want to live in. The only thing that keeps those in power in that position is the illusion of our powerlessness. A moment of freedom and connection can undo […]
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This article was reported for ENEMY Magazine, a new print magazine and newsletter dedicated to reporting on abuses of power in news deserts and underrepresented communities across the United States. Subscribe to ENEMY here. Over the years, Sophia* built up a dependable set of regulars. Sex work paid “enough to survive more than comfortably” and it was work she preferred over jobs she’d had in the past, like working in restaurants or warehouses. Those jobs, she said, were “much more labor intensive for quite a lot less pay.” But when news of the coronavirus first began to circulate in January, business […]
Australia’s national science agency, in new research, found that the COVID-19 coronavirus can survive on different surfaces for about a month, making the need for measures like hand-washing and sanitizing even more important. In research published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, said that the COVID-19 coronavirus is able to survive for longer on smooth surfaces and in cold temperatures, specifically pointing at paper banknotes, glass and steel, as materials that are more suitable for the virus to survive. Tested in a laboratory – which means that some factors, including UV-lighting, was not involved in […]
“Republicans have been trying to drive a stake into the heart of Obamacare pretty much since it was passed — both through legislation and litigation,” New York Times reporter Sarah Kliff says. Source link
If the internet was a person, ARPANET was its first tooth, Facebook was the pubescent rage of middle school and Bitcoin was the key to its first car. Today, we find ourselves riding shotgun, unsure of what direction the internet will take next. There are those who feel we’re about to careen off a cliff, and others who write off the internet’s dangers as inevitable growing pains of innovation. The internet allows us to work together while simultaneously incentivizing us to tear each other apart. That dynamic isn’t sustainable for long. Perhaps over the next 10 years the internet will go […]
It is widely known by scientists that some living beings simply do not require the actual act of fertilisation to reproduce – and this has nothing to do with the doctrine propounded by Christians to explain the birth of Jesus Christ from his virgin mother. It is not unusual for tiny spineless animals, known as invertebrates, to resort to contactless procreation from time to time. Among those that have a backbone, this behaviour has mainly been spotted among fishes and reptiles – although it is still quite rare. According to researchers, this pattern of mateless, or asexual, reproduction may especially occur […]
A Su-30 fighter jet that crashed in central Russia might have been accidentally shot down by another jet during military drills, local media has reported. Both pilots managed to eject safely, but the aircraft was destroyed. The $42 million plane came down in a wooded area in Russia’s central Tver Region on Tuesday. The two pilots survived the crash and were evacuated. They were in a “satisfactory” condition after the incident, the press service for Russia’s Western Military District explained. While the military remained tight-lipped on the causes of the crash, multiple media reports suggested on Tuesday that the jet was likely […]
When he couldn’t reach his cousin Jake Hyland on Monday, Jim Mabry drove to his family’s remote property in rural Washington state, where wildfires turned pastures of 4-foot-high sage into dust. Jake and his wife, Jamie, along with their 1-year-old son, Uriel, were visiting their land in Okanogan County when flames from the Cold Springs Fire ripped through the area. Relatives couldn’t reach the couple, or emergency services, because power lines were down. On Tuesday, Mabry discovered Jake’s truck stuck in a ravine, about a quarter of a mile from the land. The vehicle had blown through a barbed wire fence. […]
Humans have gained an invaluable weapon in the battle against parasites, after an enzyme variant was pinpointed as the reason for the worms’ ability to survive without oxygen. The bugs live in the guts of around a billion people. The worm-like freeloaders, known as helminths, colonize human guts after sneaking into the body through dirty drinking water. New research has finally unravelled the mystery behind their exceptional ability to survive in the low-oxygen environment, and the findings raise hopes of new treatments to quell their growing resistance to medications. When the parasites are outside the body, they breathe oxygen, just like […]
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Dozens of young people were singing lyrics by a local band on Palace Square: “We’ll be together, like Sid and Nancy, we’ll never live long enough to be pensioners.” The warm July night was young. In spite of the dark context of the song, people looked happy. The wind played with a young woman’s rainbow-dyed hair, while she was kissing her girlfriend. That scene was hardly unusual, even in Russia, where authorities ban what they call “gay propaganda,” same-sex marriage and even the rainbow itself. Liza, who is 21, said she felt much happier once she dyed her hair in […]
The coronavirus has the potential to decimate bars across America. Already a number of well-known establishments have announced that they won’t reopen and many others are struggling to stay afloat during these challenging times. On this episode of the award-winning podcast Life Behind Bars, co-hosts David Wondrich and Noah Rothbaum are joined by Nate Whitehouse, co-founder of Thirst, to talk about his organization’s efforts to get insurance companies and the federal government to help bars stay in business. So, fix yourself a drink and listen to this episode of Life Behind Bars. Life Behind Bars features Half Full’s editor Noah Rothbaum […]
Capitalism May Not Survive The 2020 Global Crisis July 24, 2020 Capitalism May Not Survive The 2020 Global Crisis2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/wolff.jpg200px200px Above photo: Getty Images/pidjoe. The crisis will cut deeper and last longer than many predict. The current global crisis triggered by Covid-19 is the third capitalist crash in this century. And governments’ incapacity to consider non-capitalist solutions threatens to keep deepening this crisis into capitalism’s worst. The first was in early 2000. Because it was triggered by the absurdly high prices of dot-com stocks, it got named the “dotcom crisis.” In 2008, the trigger was widespread subprime mortgage default in the US and the crash […]
Bitcoin proved itself a resilient asset, if not a stable or useful currency, during March’s global financial meltdown, according to analysts at one of the world’s largest investment banks. In a note to investor clients circulated June 11 and obtained by CoinDesk, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts described how bitcoin has shifted from a fairly uncorrelated asset to one whose price more closely tracks traditional stocks. “Though correlations were modest and mostly mean-reverting around zero for much of the past couple of years, in recent months they have moved sharply higher in some cases (equities) and lower in others (U.S. dollar, […]
Jerry Morales owns Gerardo’s Casita, in Midland, Texas. The former mayor of Midland and past president of the Texas Restaurant Association has done anything and everything to keep his businesses alive over the past two months. John Burnett/NPR hide caption toggle caption John Burnett/NPR Jerry Morales owns Gerardo’s Casita, in Midland, Texas. The former mayor of Midland and past president of the Texas Restaurant Association has done anything and everything to keep his businesses alive over the past two months. John Burnett/NPR Restaurant doors are cautiously opening again in Texas, but nothing is quite the same with the continuing threat of […]
FBI no longer trusted? Spy agencies to take over US election security briefings …from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: The battle for the Trump administration to cut off any attempts of US intelligence keeping an eye on Trump operatives’ questionable activities despite what many consider more than a whiff of corruption in their ranks, is now fully joined. An election loss would not only expose Trump to unfettered investigations that are already in progress, but could open the door to possibly many others that have been thrown in with the concept of total immunity, which Trump seems to be so fond […]
I’ve been watching the craft beer industry collapse over the past few months. After 20 years of writing about how upstart craft brewers have steadily taken customers from mainstream brands, it’s a shock to see this whole world shatter under the hammer of the coronavirus pandemic. Given that everything is now upside down maybe I shouldn’t be shocked, but overall, things are pretty grim. The disease has broken the long growth curve of craft beer, which had outperformed the overall category for more than a decade—and it only took a month. In April, according to the latest numbers from industry watcher […]