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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
psychmesu

https://mas.to/@meganL/113683986733703639 meganL@mas.to - Re alternatives to Amazon, it depends on what you're buying. But I've been free from #Amazon since 2017 and here's what I use:

https://www.lehmans.com/

https://www.simsupply.com/

https://www.indiebound.org/

Ordering directly from manufacturers' websites.

I haven't ordered from Ali Express before, but a lot of the cheap Chinese stuff you get from Amazon is there as cheap or cheaper. A lot of folks order from them.

And buy local if you can, of course.

#Strike #Labor #Union

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mlansbury@despora.de
Mark Lansbury

One year on, we know this: #Sweden’s trade unions are more than a match for Elon Musk

It is the first and only #strike against #Tesla anywhere in the world. And it has now become the longest-running strike in Sweden for a century. In April, six months into the dispute,

#Musk said: “Actually, I think the storm has passed on that front, I think things are in reasonably good shape in Sweden.” That was not true then, and it is not true now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/01/one-year-on-we-know-this-swedens-trade-unions-are-more-than-a-match-for-elon-musk

#Europe #PeopleNotProfits #Unions #work #CorporateLies

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joseph_teller@diaspora.glasswings.com
Joseph Teller

US dockworkers suspend ports strike until January

Biden noted the need for ports to be open to "ensure the availability of critical supplies" for those hit by Hurricane Helene, which has left more than 200 people dead in the US south-east.

In other words, the situation would leave Biden the ability to enact "emergency powers" due to the severity of the Hurricane and the ongoing relief efforts... and could have seize control from the companies running/owning them (who are all foreign companies at this point). Presidential power to do so in an emergency is his to wield in such, just as it was Bush's when 9/11 happened or Roosevelt's during the Great Coal Strike or Roosevelt for the Railroads at the start of WW2. Better to share the pie with the workers then lose it all/

Well That Was Effective

#Strike #ILA #Biden

International Longshoremen's Association suspend ports strike until January

The walkout threatened to plunge the holiday shopping season into turmoil and become an issue in next month's presidential election.

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wurstaufbrot@pod.geraspora.de
N. Felibata 👽

Today in Labor History September 12, 1918: Eugene V. Debs, Labor leader and socialist, was sentenced to 10 years, under the Sedition Act, for opposing World War I. While in jail he received one million votes for president. In the late 1800s, he led several railroad strikes and helped found the American Railway Union. In 1905, he cofounded the IWW, along with Big Bill Haywood, Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, James Connolly, and others. He ran for president as a socialist five times in his life.

#workingclass
#LaborHistory
#eugenedebs
#socialism
#IWW
#union
#strike
#antiwar
#sedition
#prison
#potus
#motherjones
#bigbillhaywood
#lucyparsons

Source: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/113124903070477469

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad 🆓🇵🇸 ☮️Now

Argentines to Go on General #Strike Against Milei's Reforms

Among other things, the far-right President intends to govern by granting himself legislative powers for 4 years.

On Thursday, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), #Argentina's largest labor union, called for a general strike and a march to the Congress on January 24th to protest against the decree of urgent necessity and a bill that grants "superpowers" to the far-right president Javier #Milei to govern discretionally for two years.

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Argentines-to-Go-on-General-Strike-Against-Mileis-Reforms-20231229-0007.html

#SouthAmerica #Politics #Fascism #Economy #Resistance

Argentines to Go on General Strike Against Milei's Reforms

<p>Among other things, the far-right President intends to govern by granting himself legislative powers for 4 years.</p>

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/viking-economics-democratic-socialism

A Nonviolent Revolution, Viking-Style
GEORGE LAKEY
Dec 18, 2023

..."Some people believe the #Nordics do well these days because they are small and relatively homogeneous. But in the Nordic “bad old days” they were smaller, and much more homogeneous. They performed poorly because their economic #elites were running things. When an #oligarchy is in charge, misery is widespread no matter how small and homogeneous you are!

What changed among the Nordics to generate today’s high ratings? Their people who didn’t leave figured out how to use #nonviolent direct action campaigns to force their oligarchies to give up control.
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By 1931 the Swedish economic elite was desperate to hold onto power. They used their government’s military and killed workers in a local but important strike. The labor movement responded to the killings by calling a national general #strike, supported by middle-class progressives, and took power.

Norwegian workers and farmers, eager to learn from both Danes and Swedes, then upped their level of struggle. The Norwegians had a more radical vision than did the Swedes—Lenin even invited Norwegian Labor Party leaders to join Russian revolutionary meetings in Moscow. The labor movement increased the level of strike activity, aiming to end the elite’s ownership of the means of production.

By then, however, Norway was caught by the 1930s’ Great Depression. Norwegians in poverty were starving while still trying to maintain their strikes. Given the pain and hardship, the Labor Party decided not to continue the struggle to make a full-scale victory and instead to settle for social democracy, which was less expansive than their version of a new society.

The coalition of workers and farmers agreed to let the capitalists continue to own and manage their means of production, but required them to accept complete unionization, a high degree of regulation, huge taxes on large incomes and capital, and accept a large sector of co-ops as well as many municipally-owned and nationally-owned enterprises.

Most importantly, the Norwegian economic elite would have to give up their power to run the economy as a whole: big-picture decisions would be made by the working class and family farmers, through their dominance in parliament.

A growing number of mass strikes forced the Norwegian economic elite to surrender. The Labor Party—the most socialist of the Nordic workers parties—then basically ran the country for half a century."...

A Nonviolent Revolution, Viking-Style

Could the United States actually be home to an organized movement to deliver its people a happier, healthier, and more egalitarian future?

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aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

Al Jazeera journalist’s father killed in Israeli strike on his Gaza home | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif bids farewell to his father who was killed when an Israeli air strike hit their family home in the Jabalia refugee camp ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Anasal-Sharif #Gaza #Israeli #Jabalia #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #bids #camp #family #farewell #father #journalist #killed #latestnews #newsheadlines #refugee #strike
Al Jazeera journalist’s father killed in Israeli strike on his Gaza home | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

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