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  Rosen: Amazon Workers Defeat: The Trusts Are Back

  The deepening crisis of U.S. and global capitalism may usher in a new era of worker empowerment.  One can hope – and organize
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  Kolhatkar: Daunte Wright’s Killing Makes the Case for Shrinking Police Budgets

  How many Black people have to be killed by police before politicians realize that expensive reforms don’t work?
• Walker: AOC Blasts Police Department’s “Accident” Excuse in Daunte Wright’s Death

  “Daunte Wright’s killing was not a random, disconnected ‘accident’ — it was the repeated outcome of an indefensible system that grants impunity for state violence”
• León: A Worldwide Workers’ Revolt Against Amazon Has Begun

  Bessemer was just the beginning. Amazon workers from Italy to India are uniting to form a global movement that may have found Jeff Bezos’s Achilles heel
• Huerta: Dolores Huerta reflects on her decades-long fight for workers’ rights

  Interview on the ongoing civil rights and labor movements in the U.S., Biden's campaign promises, and more
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  Feffer: The Spread of Global Hate

  Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter helped right-wing populists take power. Can they now help rein them in?
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  Sawant: For a fighting approach, not factionalism

  It was clear to us that working people were looking for a different kind of politics
• Stancil: IRS Chief Says Tax Evasion Costs US $1 Trillion a Year

  "We don't just need a wealth tax, we also need to give the IRS the tools it needs to make sure the ultra-rich finally pay their fair share."
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  Lennard: There Shouldn’t Be Vaccine Patents in a Health Crisis

  A new poll found most Americans want Biden to break drug companies’ monopolies and end Covid-19 vaccine apartheid
• Rebellion: The Scientists Have Had Enough

  Scientist Rebellion believes that scientists and their institutions must act like the climate crisis is an emergency - and speaking about an emergency is not enough
• Nassar: Bantustan mayor

  The occupied West Bank city, non-autonomous and fragmented, a bantustan of sorts, is revealed in the opening scenes of Mayor, directed by the US filmmaker David Osit.
• Entralgo: Amazon Vote Shows Why We Need the PRO act

  Nearly all of the union-busting tactics deployed by Amazon would be banned and enforced under the bill
• DeManuelle-Hall: The BAmazon Loss and the Road Ahead

  There will likely be more failures before there are major successes
• International: Large majority of US voters support patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

  Shock poll reveals majority support for Joe Biden to suspend TRIPS and support global vaccination
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  Klikauer: Communicating Global Warming

  With the dominance of corporate media and their power to shape public discourse, it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism
• Koehler: Armed racism keeps no one safe

  Racism remains embedded in its social infrastructure. Much of the country is “protected” by an occupying army
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  Benjamin: The Hawks Who Want War With Iran Are Working Overtime

  Please Help ZNet       Source: Jacobin Just as...
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  Swanson: The Brutes Haven’t All Been Exterminated

  Assume that the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen are not people. Read news reports on the wars not ending. See if they don’t make a lot more sense that way.
• Stout: Detroiters march against police evictions

  Please Help ZNet       Source: Liberation News Activists...
• Armstrong: Breaking Down “Blue Wall of Silence”

  Prosecutors in the Derek Chauvin case have successfully chipped away at the “blue wall of silence” by getting current police officials to testify against Chauvin
• Mathur: The U.S. Is Choosing the Wrong Side in India

  The Biden administration is ignoring protest movements in India to support a right-wing nationalist government against China