Experiments in Free Transit
Joshua DeVries
September 9, 2020
Socialist Project
Over the last several decades, many cities around the world have experimented with free transit. Free Public Transit editors Judith Delheim and Jason Prince collect a dozen-and-half essays of these stories written by activists and academics.
Trump Intends to Steal the Election. Here's How to Stop Him
Bill Mosley
September 5, 2020
Washington Socialist
Perhaps the only thing that will force Trump to back down from an attempted overthrow of the election results is an overwhelming popular vote against him on Election Day, notwithstanding how many mail ballots have yet to be counted.
Why and How Trump Could Win
Geoffrey Jacques
August 30, 2020
Portside
We should focus on racism as the problem the nation needs to tackle, because working on that problem is the key to working on all others. We are justified in taking this approach by the millions that are now building a movement in the streets.
COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims Are Being Held Up or Denied
Bryce Covert
September 7, 2020
The Intercept
Seeking to deny injury claims, employers and insurance companies are arguing workers, even those directly exposed to Covid-19, can’t prove they got sick at work. The virus “exposes the weakness of workers’ safety rights” in an employer-biased system.
Financial Pain From the Pandemic 'Much, Much Worse' Than Expected
Joe Neel
September 9, 2020
NPR
According to a recent poll at least half of people in the four largest US cities have experienced job loss, and/or reduced wages and hours due to COVID19. The greatest problems are found in Black and Latino households. And it's going to get worse.
Transit Workers Are Still Dying—With No End in Sight
Marcia Brown
September 9, 2020
The American Prospect
Though they’ve kept working in some of the most dangerous jobs, they’re now facing the prospect of furloughs and layoffs if there’s no more federal funding for transit.
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By Serena Renner and Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee. British Columbia - B.C. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson today announced the deferral of old-growth logging within more than 350,000 hectares as well as the protection of up to 1,500 giant trees. The move came in response to a highly anticipated report also released today on the management of old-growth forests in the province. Environmentalists, workers and First Nations representatives applauded the steps but say they leave out some of the most at-risk ancient forests as well as funding for implementation. 
By Scott Schwebke and Steve Scauzillo, Pasadena Star News. The city of South Pasadena is suing The Dow Chemical Co. and Shell Oil Co., alleging that for more than four decades both firms willfully manufactured a pesticide containing a cancer-causing chemical that has contaminated the municipality’s drinking water supply. The 25-page complaint, filed last month in U.S. District Court, contends that from the 1940s to 1980s Dow and Shell marketed a pesticide containing the chemical 1,2,3-trichloropropane, also known as TCP. 
By Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture Foundation. So now the Navalny poison episode takes on a new twist with German military intelligence subsequently claiming they found traces of Novichok on a bottle of water the Russian dissident had purportedly been drinking from. Rather, it sounds more like the authors of this false-flag operation have “bottled” – meaning became unnerved by the absurdities inherent in their own narrative. Last week the German government announced that a Bundeswehr military laboratory had detected Novichok in the body fluids of Sergei Navalny. 
By Andre Vltchek, Popular Resistance. We were always told what to think; what is correct and what is wrong. By the white dudes living in or coming from Europe and North America. They knew everything. They were the most qualified. When I write “white,” I don’t mean just their race or color of their skin. To me, “white” is their culture, where they belong. Yes, their identity. We Russians, Cubans, Venezuelans, Chinese, Iranians, Turks are not really “white,” even if our color of the skin is. Not that we are dying to be white, really! We have our own way of living and thinking, and most of us are on the side of the oppressed, of the...