From CommonDreamsFor Immediate Release Wednesday, December 2, 2020Organization Profile: Patriotic MillionairesContact: Chris Fleming, Red Horse Strategies, 202-631-0929, chris@redhorsestrategies.com Kindred Motes, Wallace Global Fund, 646-713-8985, kmotes@wgf.org Sam Quigley, Patriotic Millionaires, 317-752-9150, sam@patrioticmillionaires.org Bob … [Read more...] about Coalition Calls on Senate to Include $200 Billion for Charities in Relief Package–at No Cost to Taxpayers
Archives for December 2020
The Problem With Hashtag Activism
From JacobinIn the thirteen years since Twitter’s inception, users from every … [Read more...] about The Problem With Hashtag Activism
Restaurant Work Is Always Brutal. Under the Pandemic, It’s Hell.
From JacobinA report on food-service workers’ experiences during the pandemic, released today, reveals how coronavirus has multiplied the problems servers face on the job. The report, conducted by One Fair Wage, a nonprofit that advocates for the end of the subminimum … [Read more...] about Restaurant Work Is Always Brutal. Under the Pandemic, It’s Hell.
“This Is a Revolution, Sir”
From JacobinGeneral strikes in the era of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi have an oddly repetitive quality to them. First, the major national-level trade unions — save for the one aligned with Modi’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — call for a one- or two-day … [Read more...] about “This Is a Revolution, Sir”
Homeward Bound: The Postwar Repatriation of Japanese Civilians in Shanghai, 1945-1948
From Japan Focus Abstract: This article assesses the planning, management and repatriation of Japanese civilians in Shanghai between 1945 and 1948. It examines four interwoven dimensions of this history. The first is the removal of Japanese expatriates as the centerpiece of the Kuomintang and Allied Powers’ project to end Japanese colonialism once and for all. … [Read more...] about Homeward Bound: The Postwar Repatriation of Japanese Civilians in Shanghai, 1945-1948