Above Photo: SBWorkers Untied / Facebook. From Starbucks And Amazon To Political Campaigns And Digital Media, Workers In Historically Unorganized Occupations Are Forming Unions. And Breathing New Life Into The U.S. Labor Movement. This year, May Day was celebrated during a historic moment for the American labor movement. Nearly every day, news reports announce another example of workers exercising their rights as nonprofit professionals, Starbucks workers, and employees at corporations like Amazon, REI and Conde Nast announce their union drives. The approval rating for labor unions has reached its highest point in over 50 years, standing at 68 percent, and petitions for new union elections at […]
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Above Photo: An MST march. Facebook/Gustavo Marinho. Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted. Ever since it launched its first audacious land occupations in the mid-1980s, in which groups of impoverished farmers took over unused estates in Southern Brazil and turned them into cooperative farms, the Landless Workers Movement (known in Portuguese as the Movement dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST) has stood as one of the most innovative and inspiring social movements in the world. By 2016, its estimated 1.5 million members had established 2,000 permanent settlements throughout Brazil, with some 350,000 […]
Above Photo: An MST march. (Facebook/Gustavo Marinho) Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted. Ever since it launched its first audacious land occupations in the mid-1980s, in which groups of impoverished farmers took over unused estates in Southern Brazil and turned them into cooperative farms, the Landless Workers Movement (known in Portuguese as the Movement dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST) has stood as one of the most innovative and inspiring social movements in the world. By 2016, its estimated 1.5 million members had established 2,000 permanent settlements throughout Brazil, with some 350,000 […]
By now it is obvious that the mainstream media does not cover any good news whatsoever about Venezuela. Even non-political issues are always accompanied by a poisoned cliché sentence or two about “dictator”, “authoritarian regime”, “collapsed economy” “humanitarian crisis”, etc. etc. So, the game-changing news that there are peace talks being held in México City between the Venezuelan government and opposition parties is ignored. México is acting as host and facilitator with the kingdoms of Norway and Netherlands, and the Russian Federation as mediators. This seminal event has been scarcely reported by the North American media or commented on by politicians. […]
Wise People Know Winning A War Is No Better Than Losing One By Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. September 18, 2020 Wise People Know Winning A War Is No Better Than Losing One2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/liu-bolin-china-guernica.jpg200px200px Above photo: Liu Bolin (China), Guernica, 2016. Dedicated to Soni Prashad, 1929-2020, who spent her life looking for a better world. US President Donald Trump and his ‘war council’ – led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – have amplified their aggression against China. What began as a trade dispute in the 1990s has now escalated into the United States making an existential challenge against China. The threat against China […]
Diana Rigg first beguiled baby boomers in the ’60s as Emma Peel on The Avengers. Half a century later she was charming millennials as “Princess Olenna Tyrell” on Game of Thrones. Rigg, who died of cancer September 10 at the age of 82, had not only the ability to transcend generations but genres as well, moving effortlessly from the stage to film and then to television, making those transitions all her life. Respected on the stage, famous on screens large and small, but never troubled by the constraints of celebrity—her private life remained pretty much just that, and she never suffered […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1f/1080323479_0:-1:1921:1080_1200x675_80_0_0_50150c56dcc19ebaab7bf6f1b72e0ec6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/society/202008311080323444-the-weeknd-triumphs-on-vma-winning-best-video-2020/ The Canadian R&B superstar and his hit “Blinding Lights” from the new album “After Hours” competed with Billie Eilish, Eminem, Drake, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande. R&B star The Weeknd won top prize for video of the year on Video Music Awards 2020, triumphing with his music video “Blinding Lights”. The video, which has topped 224 million views, outran “everything i wanted” by Billie Eilish, a Lady Gaga and Ariana collaboration “Rain on Me”, “The Man” by Taylor Swift, “Life is Good” by Future and Drake, and “Godzilla” by Eminem […]
Game Writers Made History By Going On Strike — And Winning By Nicole Carpenter, Polygon. August 15, 2020 Game Writers Made History By Going On Strike — And Winning2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/voltage-workers.jpg200px200px Above photo: From CWA. The 21-day strike ended with an agreement. Twenty-one writers who were contractors that create scripts for the mobile app Lovestruck: Choose Your Romance went on strike on July 15 — a move nearly unheard of in the video game industry. Calling themselves Voltage Organized Workers, the group demanded better pay and workplace transparency, but the company that owns the app, Voltage Entertainment, at first refused to recognize their requests. Working with the […]
President Trump’s Rasmussen approval rating hit 51% on Monday. This is despite the horrific attacks by Democrats and their fake news media over the coronavirus and his handling of the crisis. Advertisement – story continues below Barack Obama had a 44% approval rating at the same point in his presidency. And, as Rasmussen reported earlier, Obama had a 95% positive media.Trump has a 95% negative media. TRENDING: “Look at Your Boyfriend’s Face!” -Unhinged Woman Throws Coffee on Two Men for Not Wearing Masks – Boyfriend Gets His Ass Beat Bloody (VIDEO) This is truly REMARKABLE news! Source link
President Trump participates in an event on how to safely re-open schools during the coronavirus pandemic at the White House Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump participates in an event on how to safely re-open schools during the coronavirus pandemic at the White House Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Presidents seeking a second term generally campaign on a unifying message, highlighting the work they’ve done and what they hope to accomplish for the American people in the years ahead. President Trump is choosing instead to reprise the most divisive and racialized themes of his 2016 […]
Artem Dzyuba has caught the headlines in the aftermath of Zenit St Petersburg sealing the Russian Premier League title after being filmed simulating sex with fellow scorer Sardar Azmoun during exuberant post-match celebrations. Azmoun scored after five minutes and found the net again after Dzyuba had added a second as Zenit swept to a 4-2 victory at Krasnodar to confirm their second straight title win on Sunday. The win meant their side established an unassailable 13-point lead over Lokomotiv Moscow with four matches left, earning their seventh league title. Russia captain Dzyuba, who finished two goals ahead of Iran forward Azmoun as […]
As Ethereum pushes slowly toward a new type of blockchain technology that some cryptocurrency experts predict could represent the future of decentralized finance, the upstart competitor Cardano is getting ready to go live. And Cardano’s digital token, ADA, is soaring this year in digital-asset markets on speculation that the project’s early embrace of a “proof-of-stake” blockchain might put it in a stronger position to challenge the much-larger Ethereum network. You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto markets, which of course never close, putting in context […]
Watch FFWN above, click HERE for a list of the stories we covered. The good news is that fewer and fewer people believe the official story…of anything. The bad news is that we got to this place because the authorities have exposed themselves as morally, spiritually, intellectually, and fiscally bankrupt. All across America people are breaking out of corona-induced fear conditioning and gathering in huge crowds protesting not just police abuses, but the complete collapse of legitimacy those abuses represent. There has been no legitimate government in the USA since 9/11/2001, maybe not since 11/22/1963. We are ruled by gangsters and […]
In January of this year CNN agreed to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, but the amount of the settlement was concealed from the public. Sandmann’s lawyers filed an $800 million lawsuit against CNN, WaPo and NBC Universal after the outlets used a selectively edited video to make Nick Sandmann and his fellow Covington friends look like they harassed Nathan Phillips, a Native American who attended the Indigenous Peoples March in DC. Sandmann’s lawyer Lin Wood told Fox News in 2019 that “CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And […]