Notices by maeve (acrata@anticapitalist.party)

#Labor: Los Angeles County Unified School District teachers will strike on Monday, after failure to reach agreement in long deadlocked contract negotiations https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-teachers-plan-strike-monday-after-no-deal-was-reached-n957966

#France: Fears of a replay of the 1968 workers rebellion paralyze France, government austerians and their corporate masters are quaking in their boots. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/france-paralysed-as-unions-revive-the-spirit-of-1968-6lslz5j90 (London Times, which thinks workers should be quiet)

An infographic on the success of US propaganda over time convincing people that the US was most to be credited for the defeat of the Third Reich, despite long establish proof to the contrary https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DY1xULCVMAAD7rL.jpg

#Spain #labor union CCOO, representing 1000+ @Amazon workers, announces a 2 day strike to protest low wages and attacks on workers' rights https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-spain/spains-amazon-workers-call-two-day-strike-over-wages-rights-idUSKCN1GP13L

#Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard: "Washington must stop spending tax dollars to fund regime change wars". She is a voice crying in the wilderness, #militarism rules supreme in the US https://www.rt.com/usa/416290-gabbard-stop-arming-terrorists-support/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

An interview with a member of #antifascist and #antiracist Redneck Revolt, in which the member calls for a policy of fighting #racism first. "Our stance is that our entire capitalist system is built on a bedrock of white supremacy" https://www.alternet.org/activism/redneck-revolt-says-fight-racism-first-then-economics

Center for American Progress analysis on serious impacts on disabled adults and children in the #GOP tax plan, presently preparing for a House / Senate conference on the final bill https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/disability/news/2017/11/27/443277/republican-tax-plan-tax-disability/

#FBI chief says the Bureau is investigating "#antifa sympathizers", which one might interpretation of a thoughtcrime campaign http://www.newsweek.com/antifa-sympathizers-investigated-fbi-728340 Article features remarks by Antifa historian Mark Bray

How a half educated #tech elite delivered us into chaos. Key paragraph: "Put simply, what Google and Facebook have built is a pair of amazingly sophisticated, computer-driven engines for extracting users’ personal information and data trails, refining them for sale to advertisers in high-speed data-trading auctions that are entirely unregulated and opaque to everyone except the companies themselves." [and perhaps opaque to themselves] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/19/how-tech-leaders-delivered-us-into-evil-john-naughton

@Amazon captures public domain works from The Anarchist Library (e.g. Kropotkin's "Great French Revolution) and sells them to its Kindle customers

A demonstration that #Thailand is living in an alternate universe, "shored up by middle class post-truth numbness": Deputy PM Somkid declares #poverty will be eliminated in 2018 https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/1362539/backpedalling-in-a-parallel-thai-universe

The number of nations permiting visa-free travel to US passport holders has fallen dramatically since #Trump's election http://www.newsweek.com/under-trump-us-passport-falls-sixth-place-global-ranking-692594

#Japan: PM Abe's Liberal Democrats turn back challenge from Tokyo mayor Keiko, and retain supermajority. Abe likely will push constitutional amendment to remove pacifism provision, in order to intensify militarization https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japanese-voters-brave-typhoon-to-cast-ballot-in-snap-election/2017/10/22/8c7aeab4-b5dd-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html

The #Catalonia crisis permits #Spain's Popular Party gov't to deflect attention from numerous #corruption charges against its leading figures