What's Left 2016-05-15 Volume 58
Young workers getting organized with the Fight for $15 and Fairness; From the ashes of Fort McMurray comes the hope for a better world; Left Noise This Week.
Schostakowitsch: Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)
Proposed U.S. anti-encryption 'laughable' | What's Left
Does anyone really trust US law makers to 'get it right' when it comes to digital privacy issues? It is a sad state of affairs where the private US technology sector and the US government have such internally contradictory and competing interests. What is needed is an informed debate, but the world is doubtful that can happen in the US today.
Uber business model spreads to food delivery | What's Left
What's Left contributors Ben Lewis and Amalia Savva have been travelling the United States in a minivan and often come across interesting happenings. Most recently, they passed through San Francisco, California, a place where Uber and Lift drivers abound, apartment prices are sky-rocketing, and blue collar workers are being pushed out of the city. The Bay area is an incubator for new money-making schemes, often to the detriment of workers and the general population.
What's Left 2016-05-08 Volume 57
Uber business model spreads to food delivery; NASA is becoming a victim of US-style capitalism; Proposed U.S. anti-encryption 'laughable'; and Left Noise for this week.
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Ottawa will match Red Cross donations for Fort McMurray wildfire | CBC
This week in Left Noise
This Week in Left Noise is a new feature of What's Left. Left Noise outlines the music that accompanies the movements, revolutions and icons of the struggle for social justice and the hope for a better future.
Left Noise This Week (May 1, 2016)
A quick look at the music that has moved the movement this week.
Alberta and Just Transition | What's Left
We need reality-based solutions for facilitating and funding a Just Transition for workers. It will require the government to invest in publicly owned productive capacity that will generate the revenue needed to fund the hiring and drive the economic transition in the correct direction. This is not a new idea, but it is one that is proven to work.