5LL #35 - Sex Work, Israel, Police, Bernie, Architecture

Decriminalizing Sex Work Is a Matter of Survival
Jordan N. DeLoach, Truthout
Sex worker rights are tied to racial and gender justice, which is why D.C.’s decriminalization bill is crucial.
Ilhan Omar's Critics Are Not Your Friends
Jacob Bacharach, Truthdig
The criticisms of Omar show the triumph of a meaningless opportunism over the far more difficult work of building solidarity with other minorities in the United States against a wave of intolerance and violence that is explicitly and inarguably a product of the political right.
How to Survive a Police Stop
Brian Platt, Jacobin
Programs that teach young people how to interact with police are popping up around the country. But they're often exercises in victim-blaming — shifting the responsibility for avoiding lethal stops from cops to the very civilians they brutalize.
Who's Afraid of the Bernie Bros?
Bridget Read, Vogue
The Brooklyn rally presented the first real-time, IRL answer to this question of who exactly wants Bernie Sanders to be president in 2020, in the New York metropolitan area at least.
Capitalism Is Responsible for Your Depressing Office Building
Chris Gelardi, The Nation
Over a century ago, John Ruskin predicted how ugly and inhuman industrialized capitalism would become.
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