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  1. Union says ‘far more needs to be done’ after second Baltimore DPW worker’s death this year

    OSHA investigation underway

    As Maryland labor officials probe a second Baltimore Department of Public Works employee's on-the-job death, union officials called on the city to do "far more" for workplace safety.

    baltimoresun.com/2024/11/11/se

    #news #baltimore #maryland #labor #union #WorkSafety #WorkersRights #OSHA

  2. Undocumented Workers Are Challenging France’s Olympics Juggernaut — and Winning

    Paris’s flashy new venues for the 2024 Olympics depend on the rather less glamorous labor of undocumented migrant workers. Their recent strike action showed how much the Games depend on them — and won them the right to regular migration status.
    jacobin.com/2023/11/undocument
    #WorldNews #France #labor #strike #WorkersRights #MigrantLabor #Olympics

  3. Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the Loom.

    Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unac
    #news #childlabor #migrantchildlabor #migrantlabor #childexploitation #labor #politics #government #capitalism

  4. “Remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn't use them. At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned to you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.”

    By Marcus Aurelius

    From: The Stoic
    #philosophy #Stoicism #DailyAffirmations

  5. “Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.”

    By Epictetus

    From: The Stoic
    #philosophy #Stoicism #DailyAffirmations

  6. “It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance”

    By Epictetus

    From: The Stoic
    #philosophy #Stoicism #DailyAffirmations

  7. The Right Is Hoping to Defeat Cori Bush Next

    Reactionary forces like AIPAC who want more death and misery in Gaza are going up against Rep. Cori Bush. Her reelection is a priority for progressive forces everywhere.

    jacobin.com/2024/07/cori-bush-

    #news #USnews #politics #government #AIPAC #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #CoriBush #JamalBowman #TheSquad

  8. Stop the Steal activist Ali Alexander has released an apology after being accused of making unwanted sexual advances and demands of young men in his political orbit. His longtime ally, the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, told listeners of his podcast that Alexander is “bowing out of public life.”

    Ali Alexander Apologizes for ‘Inappropriate Messages’ Amid Allegations – Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/politics/poli
    #news #stopthesteal #alialexander #politics #gop

  9. Leonard Allan Cure, freed after wrongful conviction, shot dead in traffic stop

    Leonard Allan Cure spent more than 16 years imprisoned in Florida on a wrongful conviction, fighting relentlessly for his release before he was finally freed three years ago. On Monday, he was killed by a Georgia sheriff during a traffic stop on his way home from visiting his mother.
    npr.org/2023/10/18/1206760289/
    #USnews #Georgia #LawEnforcement #USJustice

  10. I've been seeing all these posts about White Noise and I'm like "why is everyone watching that Micheal Keaton movie from 2005?"

    I'm absolutely serious.

    #movie #film #WhiteNoise #LosingIt

  11. I’m gonna check out this brand new album just dropped today KOOL G RAP ‘Last of a Dying Breed’
    Produced by Domingo

    #music #KoolGRap #Domingo #LastOfADyingBreed #rap #HipHop #BlackFriday

  12. Zatoichi’s Vengeance (1966)

    Zatoichi encounters a dying man, who asks the itinerant masseur to deliver a bag of money to his young son; he agrees to fulfill the request, finding the boy in a village terrorized by criminals. This is the first entry to scrutinize the swordsman’s methods, as a blind monk confronts Zatoichi about his violent approach to problem solving and Zatoichi finds the child turning to the same bloodstained path.

    #film #criterion #chambara #samurai #cinemastodon

  13. 📽 Watching: Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

    Now we're ready for some blind swordsman action. 🍷🧀

    #film #movie #chambara #criterion #samurai

  14. I got excited for a second because I thought ALF was in the #fediverse but it was a post from Animal Liberation Front which I guess is cool too.

    #FalseAlarm

  15. Something I discovered while listening to a Vocal Jazz playlist today:

    Mark Tremonti (Creed, Alter Bridge) recorded an album of Frank Sinatra covers that was released in 2022. The songs were recorded with former members of Sinatra's band, with proceeds going to the National Down Syndrome Society.

    #music #jazz #art #charity #FrankSinatra #MarkTremonti #creed #AlterBridge #rock

  16. Something I discovered while listening to a Vocal Jazz playlist today:

    Mark Tremonti (Creed, Alter Bridge) recorded an album of Frank Sinatra covers that was released in 2022. The songs were recorded with former members of Sinatra's band, with proceeds going to the National Down Syndrome Society.

    #music #jazz #art #charity #FrankSinatra #MarkTremonti #creed #AlterBridge #rock

  17. Something I discovered while listening to a Vocal Jazz playlist today:

    Mark Tremonti (Creed, Alter Bridge) recorded an album of Frank Sinatra covers that was released in 2022. The songs were recorded with former members of Sinatra's band, with proceeds going to the National Down Syndrome Society.

    #music #jazz #art #charity #FrankSinatra #MarkTremonti #creed #AlterBridge #rock