[marxmail] Alberto Toscano's recent book Late Fascism

>From the commentary "... fascism is driven by mythic yearning — whether for an imaginary premodern “Aryan” folk culture or for America’s ahistorical lost greatness — and the rationalist counternarratives* about economic progress or class conflict variously put forward by socialism and liberali

Re: [marxmail] Sean O'Brien regime at Teamsters

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Re: [marxmail] Self-immolation at the Trump Trial

Here ya go... it appears to be just another poor soul... https://heavy.com/news/max-azzarello-5-fast-facts-you-need-to-know/ and something about the source heavy.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_(website) ... you can move along now. Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Link

[marxmail] More on neo-liberalism around the world, Argentina

The concluding paragraph is likely what you already know but worth repeating. Brian Gibbons https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/capitalism-attacks-argentine-workers-you-may-be-next/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply On

Re: [marxmail] This isn’t over!’: Trump supporters refuse to accept defeat

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Re: [marxmail] Is marxmail a good forum for basic questions about Marxism?

Re: MLB player salaries See https://www.statista.com/statistics/256187/minimum-salary-of-players-in-major-league-baseball/    These minimum (starting) salaries are a result of bargaining by their union; MLB Players Assn. I guess its all relative given the the surplus value players generate for

Re: [marxmail] Surveillance in China

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[marxmail] Once again workers lose at the shell game

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Re: [marxmail] disgusting failure to support

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2020/12/michigan-lawmaker-who-faced-death-threats-punished-for-warning-trumpers-in-viral-video.html Rep. Cynthia Johnson Show your support; write to her directly Rep. Cynthia A. Johnson – housedems.com I did Beyond Dems; got comrades in Detroit; across MI? Th

Re: [marxmail] John Lennon and the Politics of the New Left

Complexity of wealth The Story Behind John Lennon's Palm Beach Property | realtor.com® ( https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-owned-palm-beach-mansion-on-the-market/ ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. V

[marxmail] Recent article on post-Castro Cuba

A recent article in Places Journal Post-Castro (placesjournal.org) ( https://placesjournal.org/article/post-castro-cuba/ ) It may touch a nerve or two but I found a worthwhile read by an architect w/ ties to Cuba For me; recharges the battery to end the embargo (they can use the ag products; w

Re: [marxmail] Tariq Ali on John Lennon and Mick Jagger

"IMO, if you need a rock star to tell you what to think, you're incapable of thinking to any purpose." I wouldn't be as severe but I agree given a career in public and community media Though I do offer if you haven't seen it you may want to check-out the documentary Havana Moon Rolling Stones'

[marxmail] U.S. to announce settlement with UAW to reform union

As a former Teamster this union as its own worst enemy is really annoying U.S. to announce settlement with UAW to reform union | Reuters ( https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN28O1ON ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#44

[marxmail] https://placesjournal.org/article/refuge-and-fortification-in-the-us-mexico-borderlands/

Refuge and Fortification (placesjournal.org) ( https://placesjournal.org/article/refuge-and-fortification-in-the-us-mexico-borderlands/ ) The U.S./Mexico borderlands are rife with the contradictions and cruelties of global capitalism; they are where commerce flows freely but people do not. Many

Re: [marxmail] FYI: Eric Clapton and Van Morrison release anti-lockdown song

Yeah it's unfortunate that talented artists can be so untalented when it comes to daily life. Van Morrison talented- check out A Night in San Francisco; Live at Masonic  Auditorium Eric Clapton talented- check out Blind Faith Untalented- link below and this Did Eric Clapton Once Unleash a Racist R

Re: [marxmail] Jacobin glorifies Dolores Ibárruri, Stalinist executioner of the Spanish Revolution - World Socialist Web Site

Others may already be familiar with the website linked below Following this thread on Ibarruri and familiar w/ the basics of the Spanish Civil War I did a quick internet search for more info Turned up this  The Story of Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War (speakingofspain.com)  Check out the clip

Re: [marxmail] A Little Holiday Joy

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Re: [marxmail] Happy New Year , comrades !

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[marxmail] Cuba updates entry requirements for foreign visitors

However you feel about pandemic practices and precautions below may be of interest See link https://eturbonews.com/2433940/cuba-updates-entry-requirements-for-foreign-visitors/ Per the Cuban Ministry of Health entry will be reduced for travelers from the United States, Mexico, Panama, the Baha

Re: [marxmail] coups and putsches

i) It took an extraordinary period of time before there was any significant police-military presence. Why? Cuz the cops were too busy letting them in. See link  https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-self

Re: [marxmail] coups and putsches

Thank you https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/vision-emerges-of-police-moving-barricades-to-allow-rioters-into-us-capitol-taking-selfies/news-story/45a9be3adf9b447b53d23cf5536c5d02   On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 10:21 PM Ryan via groups.io  wrote: Broken link -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Gro

Re: [marxmail] coups and putsches

Though serious, listening to radio reports, I think if anyone in the media actually thought of the magnitude of the effort needed to stage a coup in the USA they'd step back a provide more thoughtful analysis of the crew who stormed the Capitol. Criminal trespass etc yes... shaking the foundatio

Re: [marxmail] coups and putsches

Of O... The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source. | | | On Thursday, January 7, 2021, 09:00:22 AM EST, Gibbons Brian via groups.io wrote: Though serious, listening to radio reports, I think if anyone i

Re: [marxmail] How Socialists Resist Rightist Coups

They're lining up... https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wnja/neo-nazis-boast-about-participation-in-capitol-hill-invasion ...while the chickens come home to roost https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bw9b/trump-loyalists-are-quitting-and-all-it-took-was-an-insurrection -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [marxmail] coups and putsches

Lots of folks have something to say about the Capitol (as counter-cultural icon Ed Sanders may coin) Clusterf**k Here's https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ten-hours-that-shook-america-2021-01 By Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva, as you may already know both granddaughter and great granddaught

Re: [marxmail] coups and putsches

Still searchin' what to call yesterday's festivities? Best title yet 'Could You Imagine Today, If Those Were All Black People?': Here'sHow the NBA Reacted to White Privilege Appreciation Day https://www.theroot.com/could-you-imagine-today-if-those-were-all-black-people-1846007412   -=-=-=-=

Re: [marxmail] Trump, The American Dream, and the Frontier

As former fed in the exec branch; it's legit.  Each admin does so and receive tons of apps. Its a really high bar so the vast, vast  majority never hear anything say what you will about those who work for any admin; folks working in the West Wing (not including nepotistic hires) skew young (

[marxmail] An answer to 1/4 of earth's land surface devoted to livestock per the UN?

Sorry National Beef Cattlemen's Association "Air it's what's for dinner" https://www.airprotein.com/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5328): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5328 Mute This Topic: htt

Re: [marxmail] Reading material that explains capitalism and socialism for a young mind?

If you can find them* the "(fill in the blank) For Beginners" series under the nameplate Readers and Writers, it appears issued by various publishing houses, is a good start. Written in comic book/graphic novel style   *used  at local bookstores, on-line at Powell's, Abe's or through the powerh

[marxmail] Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta

Concern over plastics in the environment gets a little closer to home https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412020322297?via%3Dihub Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5478): https://groups.io/g

Re: [marxmail] Biden Inauguration

>From DCist "A massive section of the downtown area will be closed off over the next week, with a perimeter set up around the National Mall, White House, and Capitol grounds. Residents, tenants, and workers can enter the area until Saturday, Jan. 16, but will need a valid ID and proof of reason

[marxmail] https://progressive.org/dispatches/trump-riot-expand-security-state-cook-210112/

https://progressive.org/dispatches/trump-riot-expand-security-state-cook-210112/ Lest we forget, one of the more dangerous legacies of the 9/11 attacks is the USA Patriot Act ( https://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html ) and the immense bloating of the national security state in tandem with

Re: [marxmail] Biden Inauguration

and unless you're billeting w/ friends you may have difficulty finding somethin "in town" * * "a local activist campaign called on Airbnb to help hosts voluntarily cancel their reservations during inauguration week. Shutdown D.C., a collective behind several large-scale anti-fascist pro

Re: [marxmail] The next two years? If you think you know, then you REALLY don't know!

fkalosar...@yandex.com wrote Mon, Jan 25 at 3:20 PM"I'm all for "We Are the 99%," but the frankly destructive and--let's face it--dumbassed reflexive Occupationism on display in Portland--needs to be got rid of before the FBI do it their way." OK But isn't "We are the 99%" just a bit too simpl

Re: [marxmail] The next two years? If you think you know, then you REALLY don't know!

fkalosar...@yandex.com wrote “It's a good slogan.  Of course it's simplistic. But there's nothing IMO more simplistic in the long run than a superficially critical stance that eschews slogans only to remain irreducibly sub-middlebrow and that therefore is useless both politically and intellectu

[marxmail] Cuba The good vs the Bad and the Ugly

The Good https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/08/cubas-covid-19-vaccines-serve-the-people-not-profits/ The Bad and the Ugly https://socialistproject.ca/2021/02/usa-trying-to-provoke-soft-coup-in-cuba/#more Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to t

Re: [marxmail] Kinzinger basically says this will continue

John Reimann writes "The chances are overwhelming that he (Trump) won't be convicted. So, what does that tell you?"  The beat goes on... https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-02-09/idaho-ammon-bundy Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages s

[marxmail] Is Green New Deal for some a raw deal for others?

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2021/02/11/lithium-batteries-and-climate-change/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6318): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6318 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/8058299

Re: [marxmail] FBI official key figure for Jan. 6 riot

Here's your primer on federal security clearances. https://www.usajobs.gov/help/faq/job-announcement/security-clearances/  The lion's share of Fed employees who possess clearances do so because they are responsible for proper use of Fed $$$; like grant programs, purchasing, accounts payable and

[marxmail] “Middle Class” As Deflection

"...there is an especially heightened perversity to talk of “saving the middle class” in the present pandemic moment – when the disposability of working-class lives, and particularly racialized working-class lives, has rarely been quite so nakedly on display." https://socialistproject.ca/2021/0

[marxmail] Cuba animal rights law

“Cuba was one of the few countries in Latin America that didn’t have an animal welfare law so to have one now is an immense joy,” Fernando Gispert, President of the Havana branch of the Cuban Association of Veterinary Medicine. https://www.ibtimes.com/cuba-approves-animal-rights-law-after-activi

[marxmail] The Dropout Who Created Bellingcat, an Intelligence Agency for the People

Eliot Higgins and his organization give us grounds for hope. Even individuals and small groups can track down the facts and publish them. That in turn can prod the media and government into action. Schools can use Bellingcat’s techniques and experience to teach critical thinking to young people,

Re: [marxmail] The Dropout Who Created Bellingcat, an Intelligence Agency for the People

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[marxmail] National Farmers Union supports farmers in India

>From statement by National Farmers Union https://nfu.org/ “We have learned the hard way that fair prices and farmer sovereignty are the bedrock of flourishing rural communities and an equitable food system – in the United States and everywhere else. As National Farmers Union works to secure th

[marxmail] Expansive data on environmental impact of food production

Data from Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/ on environmental impact of food production If you're planning on returning to the cocktail circuit in 2022 you'll be engaging or insufferable... that's up to you. Otherwise good ammunition for arguing better ways to feed and protect the p

[marxmail] Amazon-union-Alabama-vote-explained

“Nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are voting whether to unionize. This is the backstory.” https://www.vox.com/recode/22311708/amazon-union-alabama-vote-explained Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onlin

Re: [marxmail] Stalin and the execution of CPSU members

Ken H. wrote  "Given the number reported for Indonesia, it looks like I cannot defend my claim that Stalin killed more communists than anyone else." Maybe refine your statements to Party on Party violence or intra-party violence? W/ the refinement Stalin may likely be a league leader in that cate

[marxmail] Microplastics in Pitt PA waterways

“In all, we collected over 300 water samples from 53 waterways ( https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1r9w9N-LxHTKDyC6ylsokRFVoYyQRyjpt&ll=40.968421682644525%2C-77.0948779281778&z=8 ) and we found microplastics in every single waterway from east to west and north to south, from the small

[marxmail] DSA rolls Dem dice in NV; beats the house

See link https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7121): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7121 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81210165/21656

Re: [marxmail] DSA rolls Dem dice in NV; beats the house

Michael M wrote: "NOW -- if the new leadership of the Democratic Party in Nevada would concentrate on expanding union density in that state, they would be both building a Democratic Majority and creating independent centers of working class power ... (hope, eh?)." Yeah, I'd hope so... 90% of t

[marxmail] What Frederick Taylor could only dream of

>From https://www.mic.com/ https://www.mic.com/p/amazon-is-expanding-its-gamification-model-of-warehouse-work-to-at-least-20-states-66229098 Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7297): https://groups.io/g/marxmai

[marxmail] Cuba's bio-tech in action

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/15/cuba-working-on-a-peoples-vaccine-the-us-and-the-world-should-get-behind-it/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7313): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7313 Mute This

[marxmail] Workers packed in like sardines at LA's Farmer John meatpacking plant

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2021/03/a-covid-outbreak-at-a-california-meatpacking-plant-started-a-year-ago-and-never-went-away/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7316): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/

[marxmail] Solar-wind union jobs-just hot air?

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[marxmail] With AL miners and warehouse workers in the news... Where are workers organized; by state?

For details see https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/29/amazon-vote-comes-amid-recent-uptick-in-u-s-unionization-rate/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7714): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/771

Re: [marxmail] With AL miners and warehouse workers in the news... Where are workers organized; by state?

Donal wrote Is there any definitive history of how Unions are subverted by criminal leadership & the extent of their destruction from within? Regards Dónal Not aware of a single source.  Publications like Labor Notes may be be able to point you in the right direction https://labornotes.org/ Also

Re: [marxmail] JD Vance eyes Ohio’s Senate seat as a working-class man – with millions in tech funds | Ohio | The Guardian

Unfortunately would-be sociologist JD Vance (https://tropicsofmeta.com/2017/02/27/the-self-serving-hustle-of-hillbilly-elegy/) gets a lot luv across the bourgeois media spectrum. I know I managed in public media outlets for 30+ years.  Being a Buckeye and having lived and worked across Appalac

Re: [marxmail] Flawed Approach Sunk Amazon Union Drive, But Birthed National Movement

Maybe they'll have better luck https://citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/21528-unions-black-community-rallies-to-save-ralphs-jobs Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7857): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/me

Re: [marxmail] Who Will Answer for the Deliberate Child Cruelty?

How to start a Move on petition See here https://sign.moveon.org/ for step by step guidance Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7932): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7932 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/m

[marxmail] Lithium mining in NV

Lithium is a darling element of the Green New Deal Lithium mining in NV continues our nation's passion to screw the natives. Here and elsewhere like Bolivia Green New Dealers and bona fide Reds need to live as a part of the planet rather than apart from it See https://www.protectthackerpass.or

[marxmail] Record number of journalists unionize during COVID pandemic

Record number of journalists unionize during COVID pandemic https://www.axios.com/journalists-unionize-digital-media-5f38770c-e398-4a18-8e6a-7f8374caaa80.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=email Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all mess

[marxmail] African Elephants Face Serious Risk of Extinction, Warns New Study

African elephants; poaching and fossil fuels taking a toll https://independentmediainstitute.org/efl-tat-20210420/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8112): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8112 Mute This T

[marxmail] The International Transport Workers’ Federation issues People’s Public Transport Policy

"The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is a democratic, affiliate-led federation recognized as the world’s leading transport authority." *People’s Public Transport Policy* "The People’s Public Transport Policy provides our vision for a social model of public transport. The 28 po

[marxmail] Ryan Cooper on The Republican theory of unemployment is classic Marx

"... instead of calling for better wages, or setting up child care systems, or anything else, Republicans are trying to fix the problem by starving out people on unemployment — taking their money so they will have no choice but to immediately look for work, and capitalists will once again have t

[marxmail] Policymakers-must-not-rein-in-stimulus-or-unemployment-benefits

"Any signs that the more generous UI benefits included as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) are driving wages higher in this sector are very faint—far too faint to justify a scaling back of these benefits or to justify state-level policymakers depriving their own workers of a needed boost t

[marxmail] Living Planet Index: what does an average decline of 68% really mean?

"The Living Planet Index is the biodiversity metric that always claims the headlines. Unfortunately many of these headlines are wrong. The index is very easy to misinterpret. The Living Planet Index reports an average decline of 68% across tens of thousands of wildlife populations since 1970. T

[marxmail] David Dushman, last surviving liberator of Auschwitz, dies at 98

"Dushman helped free prisoners from the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a soldier for the Soviet Red Army in World War II. ( https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/world/world-war-ii-fast-facts/index.html ) Dushman was just one of just 69 men in his 12,000-person unit to survive the war..." https

[marxmail] Stop pretending its impossible to tax wealth

https://theweek.com/politics/1001349/stop-pretending-its-impossible-to-tax-wealth ( https://theweek.com/politics/1001349/stop-pretending-its-impossible-to-tax-wealth ) Columnist Ryan Cooper uses the term "smaug-esque" in the last paragraph. If yer not familiar w/ the term like I was see https:

[marxmail] Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us

--- Why EV’s are false prophets in the fight for a better world --- https://marker.medium.com/electric-vehicles-wont-save-us-4a1c4f07a08e Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.

Re: [marxmail] New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed

Well yeah... but what's his point? Context matters here. Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9272): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9272 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83626026/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULE

Re: [marxmail] New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed

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Re: [marxmail] New Harvard Data (Accidentally) Reveal How Lockdowns Crushed the Working Class While Leaving Elites Unscathed

That's understood but at the risk of repeating myself "Well yeah... but what's his point? Context matters here." As Robert Zimmerman wrote  You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows Or a muddleheaded giggler -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messa

Re: [marxmail] How the Great Plains were viewed before it became the home of cattle and wheat

Having lived in far western KS w/ work taking me to the western NE, eastern CO and OK  & TX panhandles Yes, more specifically what is now known as the High Plains were identified by Long as the Great American Desert. Stephen Long's map of Great American Desert ; area south of the Republican Rive

Re: [marxmail] From the desk of Jeff Bezos

Huh? So Prof Betancourt (Prof B) takes 20th-21st century values/mores and transfers them onto the Byzantine Empire. Like folks who take the nuclear family and roll it back to Mary and Joseph and their TWO kids For that matter Adam and Eve and their TWO kids to show that the the nuclear family is

Re: [marxmail] 6 Months inside one of America’s most dangerous industries

One significant reason the meatpacking plants came to Dodge City, Garden City, Holcomb (site of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood) and Liberal KS was access to H2O; Ogallala aquifer. Also to escape Meatcutters and Packinghouse Workers Union in CHI and IA. Brutal work that attract workers from all o

[marxmail] Teamsters to resolve to organize Amazon workers

Hope so... The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, one of the country's largest and most powerful unions, has said in an official resolution obtained by Motherboard that unionizing and building worker power at Amazon is the top priority moving forward. The announcement comes on Prime Day (

[marxmail] In AZ lokking to harvest more of that green lithium

As AZ and SW US gets drier Hualapai Tribe and local ranchers say proposed lithium mine will ruin the water https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/wikieup-lithium-mine-big-sandy-hualapai-tribe-ranchers-water-hawkstone-11561652 Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all

Re: [marxmail] (spelling corrected) In AZ looking to harvest more of that green lithium

As AZ and SW US gets drier Hualapai Tribe and local ranchers say proposed lithium mine will ruin the water https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/wikieup-lithium-mine-big-sandy-hualapai-tribe-ranchers-water-hawkstone-11561652 Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive

Re: [marxmail] Just Say Yes: Nancy Reagan Gave the Best...

Tittering over bs it's what the powerless do and share Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9456): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9456 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83800142/21656 -=-=- POSTING R

[marxmail] High Plains water or lack there of it.

Arkansas River, like the Ogallala aquifer, asked to deliver more than sustainable https://www.denverpost.com/2021/06/27/arkansas-river-valley-water-conduit-pipeline/ Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9508): h

[marxmail] Teamster talks organizing Amazon workers

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[marxmail] GA GOP draws unwanted attention to its suppression of voters

https://truthout.org/articles/georgia-gops-new-voter-suppression-tactic-violates-anti-klan-law-passed-in-1871/ Don't have time to read; here's the video https://vimeo.com/562888218 Brian Gibbons -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onl

[marxmail] International Trade Union Confederation Global rights Index 2021

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Re: [marxmail] Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting laws in test of Voting Rights Act

Say what you may about elections and voting The SCOTUS decision Brnovich v. DNC ( https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1257_g204.pdf ) is a real broadside against workers and all oppressed peoples Some say if voting was effective it would be illegal. I don't necessarily disagree. Bu

Re: [marxmail] Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting laws in test of Voting Rights Act

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Re: [marxmail] Attack on Critical Race Theory: Racism & McCarthyism

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Re: [marxmail] DSA Delegates Meet With Maduro

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Re: [marxmail] Is China Socialist? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[marxmail] Trump, would-be Allan Bakke on the world stage

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[marxmail] Focus Elon Focus

"Until now, much of Musk’s efforts to attack the government have been unfolding in a confusing, shock-and-awe style pell-mell of firings, contradictory policies, and dramatic media antics." https://gizmodo.com/trump-gives-doge-broad-powers-as-gop-announces-budget-designed-to-screw-most-americans