5LL #213 - Sabotage, Disease, Chipotle, Blizzard, Housing

Gaslighting Your Boss: Creative Experiments in Digital Sabotage
Sam Lavigne, Pioneer Works
For its entire existence, “sabotage” has been a loaded word. But with what is it loaded?
The Sick Society
Malcolm Harris and Kathryn Olivarius, n+1
Immunocapitalism is a system of class rule in which elites in New Orleans used yellow fever and the destruction that it brought to essentially divide and subjugate the masses, both black and white.
How Zoomers Organized the First Chipotle Union
Jonah Furman, Labor Notes
Chipotle workers in Lansing, Michigan, formed the fast food chain’s first recognized union in the U.S., voting 11-3 on August 25 to join Teamsters Local 243.
Not Playing Around: QA Testers at Blizzard Albany Organize with CODE-CWA
Eddie Velazquez, Strikewave
The 20 employees seeking to collectively bargain at Blizzard’s Albany studio have some of the lowest paying, yet most important roles in video game development.
Decommodify This!
Leijia Hanrahan, The Baffler
Expanding the horizons of the housing movement.
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