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The old world’s machines are breaking. In 2011, millions noticed: in Spain and Greece and New York and Cairo, they sat down in public squares, and...
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Dissent’s Joanne Barkan commented on the CTU Strike. Her work on ed. reform is incomparable:
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The Flint Sit-Down Strike in Comics
Story and art by Ethan Heitner (www.freedomfunnies.com), an editor of the political comix magazine World War 3 Illustrated and author of a regular comics column at Mondoweiss.
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Maggie Gyllenhall Busts a Union
“You know those mothers who lift one-ton trucks off their babies?” says Jamie Fitzpatrick, a working-class mom (played Maggie Gyllenhall), in a confrontation with a corrupt union rep in Daniel Barnz’s edu-drama, Won’t Back Down. “They’re nothing compared to me.”
It’s a “you-go-girl” moment. But real moms can’t lift trucks. And just about everything in this movie is as wildly fantastical as that image.
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"There is no such thing as a spontaneous strike, protest, or any other kind of social irruption. Spontaneity is just another word for ignorance on the part of those in power who are the object of subaltern scorn and protest."
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