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29/10/20
Author: 
Slavoj Zizek
Trump & Biden - FILE PHOTOS. ©  Getty Images / Spencer Platt;  Getty Images / Alex Wong
27 Oct, 2020 

One of the most thought-provoking articles I’ve read about the unfolding conflicts in the US and elsewhere – maybe everywhere. -   Gene McGuckin

 
The threat of violence erupting over the US election result next week is exposing the limits of liberal democracy, and both candidates’ rejection of left-wing ‘extremists’ is liberal opportunism at its worst.
24/10/20
Author: 
Emily Pontecorvo
Green New Deal gathering in New York - Drew Angerer / Getty Images

Oct 22, 2020

Back in 2006, when George W. Bush was president and the Paris Agreement was still a decade away, the city of Tucson, Arizona, made a modest plan to do something about climate change. It set a goal to reduce city-wide greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels, and gave itself a generous 14 years to do it.

20/10/20
Author: 
Edited by Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian. Essays by Seth Adler, Eric Blanc, Alleen Brown, Jane McAlevey, April M. Short, Jane Slaughter, Ingar Solty, and others.

October 18, 2020

20/10/20
California's top 35 largest wildfires. Chart and graphic by Barry Saxifrage.

October 20th 2020

California is on the burning edge of climate breakdown. Record temperatures are teaming up with record droughts to turn the Golden State into a tinderbox. The megafires have followed, erupting with stunning speed and ferocity across forests, grasslands, rural areas and city neighbourhoods.

These megafires, each burning more than 100,000 acres, are rising exponentially — both in frequency and size.

18/10/20
Author: 
Allison Kite and Robert A. Cronkleton, The Kansas City Star
Protesters with KC Tenants came armed with signs outside the Jackson County Courthouse in downtown Kansas City on Thursday. Shelly Yang SYANG@KCSTAR.COM

October 16, 2020

18/10/20
Author: 
​Chelsea Nash
Image: Tess Siksay
October 9, 2020

On November 3, Canadians will no doubt be transfixed by the historical American presidential election, but gig workers in Canada and those working to organize them will also be paying attention to a voter referendum taking place in California.

08/10/20
Author: 
Daniel Beekman
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speaks at the press conference in August after police Chief Carmen Best abruptly announced her retirement. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)

Oct. 7, 2020

The Seattle Human Rights Commission is calling on Mayor Jenny Durkan to immediately resign or be removed from office, accusing Durkan of “failing to uphold her duty to serve and protect the rights of Seattle citizens.”

Category: 
06/10/20
Author: 
Sheela Tobben - Bloomberg News
Oct 05, 2020 

(Bloomberg) — U.S. oil pipeline operators are slashing fees to encourage customers in Texas to keep using their networks to ship barrels to the Gulf Coast as the pandemic wreaks havoc on profits.

06/10/20
Author: 
Sarah Anderson
To get a sense of the potential impact on specific companies, consider McDonald’s. Last year, CEO Stephen Easterbrook made $17.4 million before stepping down in November. (Photo: Mike Mozart/flickr/cc)

October 05, 2020

The city's Board of Supervisors has placed a proposal on the November 3 ballot that would increase taxes on corporations with extreme gaps between CEO and median worker pay.

CEOs did not cause the pandemic. But they deserve a good deal of the blame for a model that shoveled profits up the corporate ladder, leaving lower-level employees financially insecure. When Covid-19 struck, it didn’t take much to push millions of vulnerable workers over the edge.

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