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January 28, 2020

Hundreds of Canadian Workers Are Blockading an Oil Refinery Right Now | Jacobin
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The Canadian union Unifor is currently blockading an oil refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan. It’s an important example of what democratic, militant, and solidarity-based unionism can look like.

Carillion collapse: two years on, 'government has learned nothing' | Business | The Guardian
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Lack of action on accounting rules to prevent corporate disaster is shocking, Unite says

The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Doctorow: For my latest podcast, I read my Guardian Cities column, “The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states,” which was the last piece ever commissioned for the section.

The value in GDP
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At the recent ASSA 2020 conference there was a session on whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the ubiquitous measure of national output, was adequate as a gauge of “well-being or social welfare”.…

Data Privacy or Data Protection Day? It’s a Human Right, Either Way
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Today marks the 39th anniversary of the Council of Europe's "Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to the Automatic Processing of Personal Data", or, more catchily, Convention 108. It is the root treaty that spawned the first European Union-wide data protection laws, including...

What the El Mozote Massacre Can Teach Us About Trump’s War on the Press
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This week’s final, complete confirmation of the El Mozote massacre 38 years ago holds critical lessons about the Trumpist war on the media today.