Why Won’t the US’s Largest Labor Federation Talk About a General Strike? Jacobin

Sep 202020
 

The barriers to organizing a general strike in the United States in response to the myriad miseries American workers are facing are massive. But we can’t move toward such a strike without at least putting the possibility on the table and discussing it — something the AFL-CIO has shown no interest in doing. AFL-CIO Headquarters, Washington, DC. (Matt Popovich / Flickr) Every so often over the past few years, the hashtag #GeneralStrike goes viral, with…

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Scientists are working on vaccines that spread like a disease. What could possibly go wrong? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists recent issues

Sep 202020
 

Published September 18, 2020Once a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for public use, officials around the world will face the monumental challenge of vaccinating billions of people, a logistical operation rife with thorny ethical questions. What if instead of orchestrating complicated and resource-intensive campaigns to vaccinate humans against emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19, we could instead stop the zoonotic diseases that sometimes leap from animals to people at their source? A small, but growing number of…

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The United States Needs a National Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs Jacobin

Sep 202020
 

A new report estimates that 76 million households will be vulnerable to utility shutoffs by next month. Congress needs to act now to stop these shutoffs — it’s a matter of life and death. A child is seen looking out a window during the coronavirus pandemic. (Darrian Traynor / Getty Images) To an even greater extent than the 2008–9 financial crisis, the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the basic dysfunction that characterizes life in twenty-first-century America…

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Socialists Have Long Fought to Disempower the Supreme Court. That’s More Urgent Than Ever Now. Jacobin

Sep 202020
 

The Supreme Court has been a reactionary institution for most of its history, law professor Sam Moyn tells Jacobin. We need to take on its power and fight for real democracy in the United States. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer arrive at the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 for Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) After years of ill health and worries…

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The ZX Microdrive: Budget Data Storage, 1980s Style Hackaday

Sep 202020
 

An enduring memory for most who used the 8-bit home computers of the early 1980s is the use of cassette tapes for program storage. Only the extremely well-heeled could afford a disk drive, so if you didn’t fancy the idea of waiting an eternity for your code to load then you were out of luck. If you had a Sinclair Spectrum though, by 1983 you had another option in the form of the unique Sinclair…

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For the Planet, There Is No “Lesser Evil” PopularResistance.Org

Sep 202020
 

By now, most people in the United States recognize that the climate crisis poses the greatest threat to humanity and nature. Faced with a president who continually dismisses the dangers of global warming and has taken numerous measures to expand fossil fuel production, many progressives and even some on the Left have declared the need to vote for Biden as the “lesser evil” in November. Noam Chomsky went so far as to label the Republicans “the most dangerous organization in…

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Howie Hawkins’ Name Will be on Ballot Used by 72.8% of Voters Ballot Access News

Sep 202020
 

No one knows how many votes will be cast for president in any state in November 2020. But if one uses the November 2016 vote as a substitute, one can calculate that 72.8% of the voters will use a ballot that has Howie Hawkins’ name. Without the three Democratic Party challenges to him in Montana, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, his percentage would have been 79.8%. The 2020 percentage for him is better than it was for…

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Alternative Presidential Debate Set for Candidates Who are on Ballot in at Least Ten States Ballot Access News

Sep 202020
 

Free & Equal, and Open the Debates, are hosting a presidential debate in Denver on Thursday, October 8. The debate will be live-streamed. The candidates will be in the same room with each other. In order to qualify, candidates must be on the ballot in at least ten states. Rocky De La Fuente, Howie Hawkins, Gloria La Riva, and Brock Pierce have already confirmed. President Trump and Joe Biden are invited, but they are forbidden…

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