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"“The election results are a repudiation of the billionaire class, corporate real estate, and the establishment,” Sawant said at a press conference on Saturday, flanked by supporters holding a “Tax Amazon” banner.
Sawant led the council in May 2018 in approving a new per-employee “head tax” on 500 of the city’s largest companies, aimed at combating a housing crisis attributed in part to a local economic boom that has driven up real estate costs.
The tax was designed to raise at least $45 million a year to build more affordable housing and help support a homeless population that is the third-largest of any U.S. metropolitan area."
Sawant led the council in May 2018 in approving a new per-employee “head tax” on 500 of the city’s largest companies, aimed at combating a housing crisis attributed in part to a local economic boom that has driven up real estate costs.
The tax was designed to raise at least $45 million a year to build more affordable housing and help support a homeless population that is the third-largest of any U.S. metropolitan area."
"Democratic congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, alleged that the events in Bolivia amounted to a coup. “The people of Bolivia deserve free, fair, and peaceful elections – not violent seizures of power,” she tweeted."
Will the US and the Organization of American States once again be able to overturn election results?
We spend $1 billion on medical research, but have no ownership of the products. That wasn’t always the case.
"Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous leader, and South America’s longest-standing contemporary leader, defended his election win but said he would respect the findings of the OAS audit."
Does "political correctness" really crush conservative speech on campus? The data suggests no.
A win for Sawant would mean defeats in five of seven contests for candidates backed by Amazon and the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, which long ago vowed to use the 2019 elections to reshape the council.
Private-sector unions need to up their organizing ambition — for everyone’s sake. The Association of Flight Attendants’ campaign to unionize Delta shows the kind of ambition we need.
Workers’ party leader had been held for 580 days for corruption but court rules incarceration unlawful until appeals exhausted
The Institute for Policy Studies host a discussion on U.S.-Cuba relations with Miguel Fraga, First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, DC.
Prof Michael Hudson takes listeners through the new economic model of kleptocracy in a German interview. He has some tough advice for Germans, for democratic supporters.
The Democratic Party is less than enthusiastic about two rising third-party campaigns, echoing national tensions between progressives and the establishment.
> "In Philadelphia, the Working Families Party went all in, backing two candidates who ran third-party bids — one of them, Kendra Brooks, took a seat that had been held by Republicans since the ’50s. Typically, WFP allies with Democrats, but this time the party ran on its own, aiming for two spots the city charter reserves for minority party council members. Brooks, with no help from the Dems, knocked out a Republican — shifting the balance of power left in the City Council. "
> "In Philadelphia, the Working Families Party went all in, backing two candidates who ran third-party bids — one of them, Kendra Brooks, took a seat that had been held by Republicans since the ’50s. Typically, WFP allies with Democrats, but this time the party ran on its own, aiming for two spots the city charter reserves for minority party council members. Brooks, with no help from the Dems, knocked out a Republican — shifting the balance of power left in the City Council. "
"The widening probe raises questions about whether the U.S. government might seek to take over the UAW."
"The Saudi operation to track its critics has only escalated in recent years. In June 2018, Saudi officials hacked into Mr. Abdulaziz’s phone using spyware the Saudi government had bought from NSO Group, an Israeli firm, according to researchers at Citizen Lab, a security research lab at the University of Toronto.'
"Cuba has been praised for its advances in child health, which a paper published this week in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) attributes partly to the socialist island’s empowerment of women along with other socioeconomic measures."
And disability rights group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) warned voters ahead of the December 12 election that her anti-welfare rhetoric is reflective of wider Conservative attitudes.
"Court documents from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, obtained by Queen’s Park Today, reveal Workman was indicted on nine counts of “falsely and willfully” representing himself as a U.S. citizen in order to register to vote and cast a ballot in the May 2000 presidential primary race and the 2002 U.S. general election in Avery County, NC."