Last October, two Amazon employees — Maren Costa (UX designer) and Jamie Kowalski (software engineer) spoke on the record to the Washington Post about their employer’s complicity in the climate crisis, including the provision of cloud computing services to energy company in search of new sources of fossil fuels.
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Hong Kong shoppers patronize “yellow” stores that support the uprising; while “blue” businesses that support the mainland are vandalized
In Hong Kong, the protracted pro-democracy uprising has triggered a local economic recession, especially as businesses and Hong Kongers seek to boycott mainland Chinese businesses and products.
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Taiwanese sympathizers are shipping helmets and gas-masks to Hong Kong
As the Hong Kong uprising hits its sixth week, the island is running out of protective gear to guard the surging protesters against police violence; in response, Hong Kongers in Taiwan and Taiwanese sympathizers have been bulk-shipping helmets, gas masks and other materiel (as well as cash) to the protesters (in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, queues formed as people waited to make donations).
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Thousands of elderly Hong Kongers march in solidarity with young human rights activists
For more than a month, Hong Kong has been rocked by an escalating series of public demonstrations that have persisted in the face of violent police suppression tactics; the demonstrations were kicked off when Hong Kong’s puppet regime — elected after China banned pro-independence candidates from standing in local government races — proposed a new rule that would make it simple for Beijing to demand the extradition of political dissidents to mainland China, where torture and arbitrary detention of political prisoners is the norm.
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Lulzy Instagram memers are organizing a deadly serious trade union
The IG Meme Union Local 69-420 is pretty damned lulzy, but the organizers are dead serious about creating a union that will negotiate on behalf of memers with Instagram and other tech platforms that exploit them by alienating their labor.
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A rapidly proliferating software license bars use by companies with poor labor practices
Katt Gu and Suji Yan’s Anti 996 License allows developers to prohibit the use of their code by companies that do not adhere to basic labor practices (996 is a Chinese software industry term for shops where coders work 9AM-9PM, 6 days/week).
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AOC is going to Appalachia to talk to coal miners
After Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a blistering rebuttal to Rep Sean Duffy’s [R-WI] charge that the Green New Deal and environmentalism were “elitist” concerns that ignored the needs of rural people, Congressional Coal Caucus member Rep. Andy Barr [R-KY] invited her to visit Appalachian coal-towns and “go underground” to talk to people in the mining industry.
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Denver students boycott school board lesson plans, stage dance party in solidarity with striking teachers instead
Denver’s teachers learned the example of the LA teacher’s strike and walked out yesterday; the school district organized instructional sessions for the students, but students decried them as poorly presented and “useless” — instead of attending them, the students at Denver’s East High organized a dance party in solidarity with their teachers.
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Google Walkout meets #MeToo in a new anti-arbitration campaign
When outraged googlers walked off the job last year to protest the company’s practice of secretly paying off serial sexual assaulters and harassers, while denying employees the right to sue over harassment through arbitration clauses in their contracts, Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised revise Google employment contracts to remove mandatory arbitration for individual sexual harassment claims.
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Bernie Sanders on fighting global authoritarianism
Bernie Sanders — who seems to have kicked off a 2020 presidential bid — writes about the terrifying global parallels to Trumpism, from Japan to the Philippines to Hungary to Turkey and beyond, and talks about how an international solidarity movement has to advance a positive agenda of how the world can be taken back from looters and environmental crisis as a global tonic to these dictators-in-waiting.
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