Half of Chicago's rank-and-file cops could be off the street. Their union doesn't want to be required to disclose their vaccine status. Also, 120 cops in San Francisco refused to comply with that city's vaccine _...Read More_

"A tug of war over the legacy of the Solidarity movement has much to do with the battle over which direction the country should go today.”

When I started to reflect on the year that will soon pass and set my intentions for the one ahead, I struggled to steady myself. Is there a word to describe feeling equal parts grief, awe, and hope?

“Outbreaks of imitative solidarity, mutual aid, do not merely verify that politically generative feelings of sameness need not be nationalised. Disaster nationalism has thus far behaved, in most cases, like a simple contagion. The danger is _...Read More_

Arthur Rönig Baer talks about the future potential and threats of the EU’s project of claiming digital sovereignty. ‘Chinese and American digital infrastructure monopolies are solidifying, increasing the friction between San Francisco _...Read More_

We need to do something to differentiate these corporate elites from the resistance. Classical Marxists can easily see how the movement has been coopted by these savvy elites. Meanwhile, the right who are aware of socialism (i.e. the _...Read More_

"Acts of community aid and chants of ‘no justice, no peace’ are renunciations of trust in a broken social contract. To cover their failure, mega-corporations are telling us how great we all are and how much they miss us."

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Great and thoughtful Facebook post by Extinction Rebellion Scotland showing once more the importance of this movement we are able to witness. “In the last week, two widely-shared images have summed up deep-rooted problems at the heart of _...Read More_

Curious to see this play out and whether others will follow suit. I’ve always thought devs have a huge amount of power - imagine the devops team (people responsible for maintaining daily operation of servers) going on strike at facebook.

If you had not seen the news reports on this - over *100 damaged gravestones along with bomb threats, in a Jewish cemetery... A crowd funded Muslim fundraiser collects over 100k to repair damages [#solidarity](/relevant/new/solidarity)