5LL #104 - Food Workers, Mediation, Debt, Leadership, Meltdowns
Who Died For Your Dinner?
Albert Samaha, Katie J.M. Baker, Ryan Mac and Rosie Gray, BuzzFeed News
A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the extent to which the virus — and the nation’s inadequate response to it — has infected, sickened, and even killed workers up and down the nation's food supply chains as they work to keep our refrigerators full.
How to Defund the Police
Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker
Beneath the debate over defunding and abolition are more difficult ideas to take apart: about safety, about criminality.
How We Can Truly Repay Our Frontline Health Workers: Clear Their Debts
Alissa Quart, Astra Taylor and Brittany M. Powell, The Guardian
Many of the workers risking their lives amid the pandemic are burdened with student debt. We owe them more than just applause
The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership
Barbara Ransby, The Nation
The current uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like.
The Meltdown Crisis
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Medium
When you are white, there are very few triggers for feeling your whiteness... unless you feel your class.
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