5LL #51 - Debates, Water, Debt Collective, Wayfair, Emma Goldman

How to Enliven the Presidential Debates
Pete Davis, Current Affairs
Make them less like joint press conferences, more like tent meetings…
When It's Not Poisoning Us, the U.S. Water System Is Robbing Us Blind
Ankita Rao, Vice
People can go into such extreme debt over unpaid water bills—even incorrect ones—that they lose their homes.
The People Power Behind Sanders' Debt Cancellation Plan
Sarah Jaffe, The Washington Post
The group that eventually became the Debt Collective, an organization that brings debtors together to use their debt itself as leverage, began at Occupy.
Wayfair's Walkout Against Concentration Camps
Eric Blanc, Jacobin
Hundreds of Wayfair workers in Boston walked out on Wednesday to protest their company’s complicity in Trump's migrant detention camps on the border. We spoke with walkout leader Maddie Howard about the workers’ decision to take action on the job against the camps.
Emma Goldman, One of History's Best-Known Anarchists, Was Born 150 Years Ago
Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue
Goldman continues to command an outsized legacy in the history of radical working class struggle.
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