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Neoliberalism or New Freedom for Corporations "The interests of merchants always differ from public interests. As a rule, they are interested in deceiving and misusing the general public" (Adam Smith). Keynes established that the market alone cannot ensure prosperity for everyone. A redistribution of income from top to bottom and regulatory state action are necessary. Public policy means compromise and isn't a sledgehammer slashing everything but the military....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2018 5:25am PDT
CCSF AFT 2121 Union Officials Organize "Victory Rally" Before Proposed Contract Explained The AFT 2121 union officials have organized a victory rally for a contract before it is even explained to the members....
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2018 10:09am PDT
Pesticide Use Near Record High in California, Monterey Numbers Concerning Use of cancer-causing fumigant pesticide on the rise for Monterey strawberries...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2018 3:36pm PDT
The Market is a Universal Totalitarian Religion The market accepts and rejects like a Calvinist God. The market only promises itself. Its highest goal is the economic boom. The Christian God's reign was not of this world. In contrast, the market theocracy makes this side into something otherworldly. The cult of money and the comodity eclipses the outlandishness and absurdity of all its predecessors....
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2018 7:11am PDT
UC Workers Call for Strike Vote After Protests End with Arrests University of California Workers Arrested Over Mounting Inequality on MLK Death Anniversary...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2018 12:52am PDT
New ACLU Charges Allege Pregnancy Discrimination Against Dockworkers at West Coast Ports Policies Block Women from Higher Wages and Union Membership...
Posted: Thu, Mar 29, 2018 9:54am PDT
Unemployment and New Ways The rise of unemployment worldwide has reached unparalleled dimensions. In 1999, 700 million were affected. The neoliberal economic theory promotes the prosperity of the rich, not society as a whole. Profit-maximization is often the only objective. The market is assumed to be a job-creator even though more jobs are eliminated than created with digitalization and the info-economy. Reducing working hours is vital....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2018 3:56am PDT
An Open Letter to the Chief of Campus Police Our open letter to the chief of campus police, after being invited to an open forum about campus safety. Thanks Sarah and Ana for this pointed and clear response declining the "offer". We demand a demilitarized campus, as one of our sunshine demands. FTP....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2018 8:56pm PDT
Crash on the Horizon The systemic reasons for the crisis are more important than a sudden fall in prices. Stocks are held on average 22 seconds, not 6 months or ten years. Real capitalism is a plus-sum game. Financial capitalism is a zero-sum game. Profit is made at the expense of others. "Love for money" replaces trust. Different ways are possible after a financial meltdown....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2018 9:42am PDT
Crisis 2.0: A Policy for the 99% The capital surpluses are a constant source of new speculative waves and maneuvers regarding securities and currencies. The crisis of state finances is mainly a crisis of tax refusal. In the last years, the elites shifted the tax burden from businesses and high incomes to consumer taxes and fees. The states were systematically weakened over against the financial market actors....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2018 2:00am PDT
Federal Documents Reveal SPFPA President David L. Hickey Attempted to Bribe Two Braidwood SPFPA President David L. Hickey FAILS to appear at an NLRB Hearing to testify on his behalf after 2 Exelon Braidwood Nuclear Officers accused him of attempting to offer these officers a Bribe as noted in Case No. 13-RC-212795....
Posted: Sat, Mar 3, 2018 3:41pm PST
Working Digitally in Just Economies Reducing working hours is an attractive scenario, an optimistic picture of a possible future of society. Less than 2% of German workers labor in agriculture, down from 40% in the 19th century. The future of work is person-related work. The state must intervene with subsidies so the servic e society does not become the domestic service society....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2018 3:29am PST
A Year of Trump and Right-wing Populism In the GOP tax bill, $5 trillion is given to households with over $1 million income. Seniors, the poor, children and students are attacked. The severe cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, HUD, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, SNAP, food stamps, WIC food assistance, Pell grants, the EPA, the Department of Education, the National Institute for Health and the Legal Corporation are sadistic. Are we headed back to the 11th century when narcissism and illiteracy were accepted and not overcome?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2018 4:27am PST
French Railway Workers Demonstrate to Free Ahed Tamini'; BDS Victory; Oprah is Pro-Israel French railway workers demonstrated to free Ahed Tamini. See https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-arrests-another-tamimi-teenager
Do you suppose American workers will do the same on Ahed's birthday, January 31, 2018?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 7:33pm PST
Respect Chicago Transit Workers! Lower the Transit Fares! Chicago transit workers and transit riders are under attack. This is a report and solidarity campaign that they are launching....
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2017 2:21pm PST
Capitalism Criticism 2.0 "Capitalism contains crisis as rain clouds contain rain," said Jean Juares, a 19th century socialist. Profits increase in the neoliberal model, not investments (Nicolas Krowall). The competitive pressure drives businessmen to reduce the share invested in labor and wages. Instead, they invest in technology so they can produce just as much with less human labor. The result is disastrous for the whole system....
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2017 10:43am PST
Cal Labor Fed Protests Tax Bill Dec 4-6, 2017 All hands on deck! We have to defeat the bill that would harm millions of working people so the rich can get even bigger tax breaks....
Posted: Mon, Dec 4, 2017 8:35am PST
SEIU 1199 Protests Nazi Trump's Tax Bill 12/2/17 SEIU 1199 protested Nazi Trump's Tax Bill which passed the millionaire's club known as the US Senate early Saturday morning, 12/2/17....
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2017 10:17pm PST
KPFA WorkWeek Radio On Puerto Rico Labor Action By US Unionists And Jones Act WorkWeek radio looks at the role of the NNU-CNA nurses to support healthcare efforts in Puerto Rico and what the conditions are for the people. WorkWeek also looks at the role of the Jones Act and how it is affecting Puerto Rico....
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2017 11:11am PDT
WorkWeek 10-10- 17 On Labor & N. CA Fire And Long Term Care In National Healthcare Bill KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Radio looks at the role of labor in the growing catastrophic fires in Northern California from firefighters to the thousands of workers who have lost their homes and jobs. It also looks at the exclusion of longterm care in the Healthcare For All Bill introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders...
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2017 1:48pm PDT
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