5LL #217 - Solidarity, Families, Police, Fare Evasion, Toilets

The Forcefield of Solidarity
Gabriel Winant, Dissent
Daisy Pitkin’s On the Line is one of the best books ever written about American trade unionism.
Red Love, For All
Erin Maglaque, The New Statesmen
Family is a terrible way to satisfy our desire for love and care, according to the writer and academic Sophie Lewis. The solution? Abolish it.
After Floyd
Austin McCoy, The Baffler
If you can’t rein in the police, you can’t save democracy.
The Evergreen, Cop-Curated, Anti-Poor, Faux Investigative “Fare Evasion” Story
Adam Johnson, The Column
As the effects of car culture on catastrophic climate change become more acute, local reporters use influential platforms to scaremonger about poor people taking mass transit for free.
The Public Reliance on Private Toilets
Rick Weinmeyer, LPE
This post calls attention to a different, often overlooked component of American infrastructure, equally decimated by decades of austerity and privatization — public restrooms.
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