5LL #110 - Tenants, Crime, Assets, Epic Systems, Cornel West

Tenant Unions for the Future
Hannah Black, Dissent

Calls to rent strike have yet to cohere into a national political movement. But as the economic crisis deepens, tenants’ fates will ultimately be decided by their level of collective organization.

We Should Still Defund the Police
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

The Asset Economy
Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings, Los Angeles Review of Books

The growing awareness that owning assets often pays more than working for a living has not yet been translated into a new understanding of class and inequality.

After Years of "Silencing, Repression, and Retaliation" at This Software Company, Workers Decided to Organize
Alex N. Press, Jacobin

At Epic Systems, a Wisconsin-based software company, workers had complaints that will be familiar to many workers across the United States: an oppressive culture of surveillance and control, executives pushing to end their pandemic-induced working from home. Now, Epic's workers are organizing.

Cornel West: Is America 'Even Capable of Treating the Masses of Black People with Decency and Dignity'?
KK Ottesen, The Washington Post

We might be reaching the real limits — the structural limits and the spiritual threshold — of a white supremacist empire.

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