Anti-Government Protests Rock China
Online and on social media, Chinese families blamed authorities for the death of a four-month-old girl after access to medical care was delayed because of the government’s harsh, so-called zero-Covid policies. In southern China, protesters broke out of buildings locked down because of those same zero-Covid policies, confronting health care workers and ransacking stores to […]
Netflix Movie “Moxie” Provides Example of Youth Organizing against Sexism
Moxie is a movie on Netflix about a group of high school women who stand up to sexism at their school. The main character, Vivian, is inspired by a new student at her school whose response to a discussion in class on the novel The Great Gatsby is to question why they are reading a […]
A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts
Surprise, surprise… Over the past three decades almost all the gains from economic growth in the United States went to the wealthiest in society. The Congressional Budget Office recently released a report that looked at the trends in family wealth distribution from 1989 to 2019. In a wide variety of ways, data was measured and […]
Soccer Without Borders, But Not Without Profits
November 28, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French The World Cup has had a turbulent start, not only because of the defeat of the Argentinian national team against Saudi Arabia, or the injury of the “golden ball” winner, Karim Benzema, but also because of the […]