5LL #188 - Starbucks, Political Parties, Platforms, Cybernetics, REI

A Rhodes Scholar Barista and the Fight to Unionize Starbucks
Greg Jaffe, The Washington Post
Months after getting a job at a Starbucks in Buffalo, 24-year-old Jaz Brisack started asking other baristas how they felt about unionizing.
Disrupt or Anchor the Democratic Party? Why Not Both?
Mark Engler and Paul Engler, In These Times
Political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Daniel Schlozman offer key perspectives on whether movements should put pressure on political parties from the outside, or focus on gaining insider power themselves.
Family Units
Julian Posada, Logic
Can the families whose labor powers AI seize the means of production?
Abolitionist Cybernetics: Groceries from South Bay Mutual Aid
Erik, Tech Workers Coalition
People need groceries. Mutual aid projects need systems.
REI Wants You to Know They Are Busting a Union on Indigenous Land
Alex N. Press, Jacobin
REI is fighting a union drive at a New York store. Toward that end, the company published a podcast, offering a master class in progressive justifications for anti-unionism.
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