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As Drivers Protest, Trump's Labor Board Sides With Uber and Lyft Mike Ludwig, Truthout As workers across the country prepared for a long Labor Day weekend, the National Labor Relations Board quietly issued another blow to the increasingly powerful movement of ride-hail drivers and gig workers locked in a high-profile struggle with tech firms that hire millions of people as independent contractors. Meanwhile, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are trying to stop California from requiring them to treat drivers as employees.
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Aging Isn't the Problem. Ageism Is. Laura Flanders, Truthout By 2029, over 20 percent of the U.S.'s population will be 65 and over. Can we expect a society that views older people as non-contributing "takers" to provide an environment where elders can age with dignity? In this interview, activists whose organizations are taking an intersectional approach to age justice -- from multigenerational, multiracial, cross-cultural organizing to caregiving -- discuss the work they are already doing to combat ageism.
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Austerity-Obsessed Europe Could Combat Climate Change Without Raising Taxes Dean Baker, Truthout While many European countries have already surpassed the U.S. in taking aggressive measures to promote clean energy and encourage conservation, there's a lot more they could do to combat climate change if not for their mindless push for austerity. With low deficits or surpluses, most of these economies could spend multiple billions annually to slow global warming without raising taxes.
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Trump-Backed Saudi Coalition Kills Over 100 in Bombing of Yemeni Prison Jake Johnson, Common Dreams The U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition on Sunday killed more than 100 people with airstrikes on a detention center in Dhamar, Yemen, forcing aid workers to divert medical supplies intended for the nation's cholera epidemic to treat victims of the bombing. The airstrikes were described as the deadliest attack on Yemen this year. In response, Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted, "We must now stand up to Trump and defund all U.S. involvement in these horrors."
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Don't Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers Tom Lewandowski, OtherWords On Labor Day, a critical question arises: Will America finally grant its workers First Amendment rights? Sure, we can say what we want, but we pay a high price to speak -- often losing our jobs, health care and benefits for our families. But we pay an even higher price for not speaking. When workers can't organize or speak out, their lives -- and ours -- may be at risk.
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Tennessee Voting Rights Activists Fight New Registration Restrictions Rebekah Barber, Facing South Following voter registration efforts targeting young Black voters, Tennessee implemented new restrictions on such undertakings. In April, the Republican-controlled legisature passed a bill penalizing organizations and individuals that turn in incomplete voter registration forms. Republican Gov. Bill Lee signed it in May, making Tennessee the first state in the nation to threaten voter registration activists with civil penalties for submitting incomplete forms.
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FBI Tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo Foreshadowed Future Abuses Aaron J. Leonard, Truthout The recently released FBI file on Suze Rotolo, an artist, activist and daughter of Communist Party members, who was associated with Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, foreshadows the Bureau's many abuses of personal and political freedoms under the guise of national security. While Rotolo's file is proof of the agency's repressive power in the past, it also underscores the need for vigilance against ongoing abuse.
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White Supremacy Tried to Kill Jazz. The Music Triumphed. Anton Woronczuk, Truthout Dodging "unscrupulous bosses" and violent attacks by racist "fans" were part of the "common plight" of jazz musicians in the early 20th century, says historian Gerald Horne, author of Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music. In this interview with Truthout, Horne describes the role of racism in the development of jazz and why creativity, improvisation and technical mastery were a means of survival for its performers.
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