5LL #171 - Strikes, Protests, Generations, Inequality, Wealth

The John Deere Strike Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop
Jonah Furman and Gabriel Winant, The Intercept
The end of the national mobilization around Covid-19 is releasing built-up pressures in workplaces nationwide.
Gentle Protests: An Interview with Andreas Malm
Andreas Petrossiants and Andreas Malm, The New Inquiry
How to Blow Up a Pipeline deals with a major myth that plagues mainstream climate activism and anti-capitalist, anti-colonial movements in general: the too-widely promulgated principle that non-violence is the only adequate form for resistance.
Hey, Kids, Who Screwed the Climate?
Wen Stephenson, The Baffler
The fight against fossil fuels needs intergenerational solidarity.
Ten Years After Occupy, We Have a Left That Matters
Hadas Thier, Jacobin
It’s still difficult organizing as a socialist in the United States. But in the last decade since Occupy Wall Street, there are signs more people are open to egalitarian politics.
Wealth Creators
Adrian Daub, Logic
The dynasties that gave birth to Silicon Valley.
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
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