Elon Musk champions free speech, but not so much for his workers, especially ones who support a union

The NLRB found that Tesla unlawfully fired & disciplined workers for pro-union activity & unlawfully prohibited workers form speaking to the news media.
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5 years ago today, I looked death in the face. A Russian warplane killed 9 children in my town in #Idlib countryside. One of the harshest nights that I lived, and one of the most horrific massacres that I documented. Today it continues in #Syria and is repeated in #Ukraine .

This looks like a great book, can't wait to read it

“Successfully unionizing large employers like Amazon would change the lives of workers, but also revolutionize politics in the United States.”

The Taliban won't even allow women to go to the mosque

'Anti-war' doesn't mean being 'pacifist'.

In the case of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it means opposing Russia's war of aggression - which means supporting Ukraine's armed struggle of liberation against it, and supporting a Russian military defeat.

when molotov-ribbentrop repeats, it's first as tragedy, then as farce

During the last weeks, I didn't meet a single student in Afghanistan who had hope. The Taliban started a war against education but they crossed a red line within Afghan society that might break their own neck in future.

all signs pointing to Starbucks doing everything in its power, including breaking the law, to stop the union drive. here’s a recent conversation I had with Laila, if you’re wondering why Starbucks would want to get rid of her—she’s a powerhouse jacobinmag.com/2022/03/starbu…

A story in two parts:

1. Today I met a woman who ran a beauty salon. The Russians occupied her town, shot at her brother, stole friend's car. Seven soldiers broke into her salon and slept there, stole boxes of beauty products and all the equipment, shat in the neighbouring shop.

How Amazon's immigrant workers organized to win a union on staten island

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The war crimes in Brovary and Chernihiv directions might be more heinous that those in Bucha. We have eyewitness accounts through friends, relatives and students. We need help documenting them Journalists and lawyers who can help please contact Zoya Mylovanova Examples: 1/

A few thoughts about the Ukrainian victory in the Battle of Kyiv:

Firstly, this is a huge victory for the Ukrainians. It's a decisive defeat for Russia - they've been stopped from capturing their key strategic objective. They can't overthrow Zelensky or the Ukrainian government.

The tension between, say, relational liberalism of Dewey, Du Bois, and Niebuhr and the rights-based liberalism of Myrdal and Rawls is so striking. 1/

1) This is an unpopular view (an argument I made from the beginning) that gets you branded as pro-Putin, but it needs to be understood. The inability to discuss the warfighting without the basest level of emotionalism is blinding us to what is happening.
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I am in tears. I feel it is just another 15 August. Read what she says.

'Why are they playing with our future? It is our right, we are humans, we are from this country. All we want is to continue with our education. Is it a sin to be girl, is it sin to seek education?'

Bogdan is providing us with evidence about horrific living conditions in besieged Mariupol, where his parents live & the 'filtration' of displaced Ukranians by Russian authorities. The Russian regime used similar methods to screen & arrest displaced persons in Chechnya.

Speaking of things that the next 10 generations won’t be able to clean themselves from the shame of ... theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/1…

This is one of the most insightful interviews I've read on Ukraine

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Brilliant nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opi…