5LL #143 - SDS, Amazon, Deindustrialization, Language, Bruce Springsteen

Mark Rudd's Lessons From SDS and the Weather Underground for Today's Radicals
Micah Uetricht, Jacobin
Mark Rudd was Columbia’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter president in 1968, when the university erupted in protest against the Vietnam War and racism. He then cofounded the Weather Underground. In an interview with Jacobin, he reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.
Amazon Repeatedly Violated Labor Laws During the Pandemic — And So Far Has Faced Almost No Consequences
Caroline O'Donovan, BuzzFeed News
In the lead-up to the biggest union vote in Amazon’s history, the company has already shown it can break the rules and get away with it.
How Health Care Became the Big Industry in Steel City
Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“Care workers are at once everywhere and nowhere,” Gabriel Winant writes. “They are responsible for everyone, but no one is responsible for them.”
Triggering the Right: The Role of Language in the Culture Wars
Simon Mair, Current Affairs
Often words can obscure as much as they reveal. That’s just how the right likes it.
Runaway American Dreams
Dennis M. Hogan, The Baffler
On Bruce Springsteen’s long political trajectory.
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