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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Helps Drive 200, 000 Syrians From Their Homes

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I have not looked at his previous writings.


He might have been good 20 years ago.



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On 6/5/17 8:33 PM, Chris Slee wrote:
> Thus, Gutman was embedded with the Turkish army and its allied militias.  He 
> seems to be Turkey's equivalent of Vanessa Beeley.

No, he is just being Roy Gutman. When he was writing articles denouncing
Milosevic as a genocidal monster, he never got on your shit list, did he?
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As for the difficulties alleged by Gutman in reporting on those affected by
the fighting on the approach to Raqqa, Times journalist Anthony Lloyd
reports no such difficulties and paints a rather different pictures of the
response of Arab villagers to the SDF:

Few of the women waste any time hurling away their dark clothes as soon
they reach the first positions of the SDF, the American-backed units now
approaching Raqqa from three sides.

“The niqab came to symbolise the suffocating feeling we had of life under
the Daesh,” Um Lamis, 33, a mother from Raqqa, said as she sat in the shade
of a tree discussing her flight across the lines two days earlier.

“The veil removed me from my sense of engagement with the outside world. It
is something Raqqa women grew to hate more than anything else. So I ripped
it off as soon as I reached the SDF frontline.” She ululated with delight.
“It was like breathing again!”

The accounts of the Raqqa women escaping one of the most stifling
environments on Earth ­illuminate a system whereby ­Islamic State not only
repressed women but delighted in the ­cruelty of its repression.

“I was forced to watch more ­beheadings than I care to remember,” Um Lamis
said, cradling her three-year-old daughter. “You don’t ever expect — not as
a man nor woman — to see anything like that. Yet we were repeatedly forced
to watch it.”

She described seeing one man, accused of collaboration with the coalition,
crucified.

“I was ordered out of the back of my husband’s car to watch the man tied to
a cross. He was begging for forgiveness but an emir stabbed a knife into
his chest and then shot him in the head. He was left on the cross for three
days as an example. The image was burned into my brain. I thought I would
never sleep again.”

Um Ali, 60, who had fled across the frontline a week before, was forced to
watch her son beat her daughter in a village south of Raqqa. The incident
began when a patrol of Islamic State religious police, Hisbah, noticed the
daughter had taken off her niqab. They rounded up the family, ensured the
daughter was wearing the niqab and marched them to their headquarters in
the village.

“First they beat my 20-year-old son with 70 lashes across his back with a
cane as punishment for ­allowing his sister to sin,” said Um Ali. “Then
they sat my daughter in a chair, a guard either side, and ­ordered my son
to beat her outstretched hands with the same cane used to beat him.”

At first, she said, her son, his own back thick with weals, tried to avoid
hurting his sister. “So the Hisbah told him, ‘Beat her strongly or we will
punish you again.’ He gave her 50 strikes. My daughter flinched with every
blow. I couldn’t tell if she was crying or not as the niqab covered her
face.”

The codes Raqqa women had to abide by under Islamic State rule were similar
to those of the Afghan Taliban. No woman could go out unaccompanied. The
chaperone had to be a direct male family member — father, brother, son.

Even sunlight was restricted, as windows were ordered shrouded so that
passers-by could not see women inside their houses. Clothing transgressions
were punished with 15-day re-education courses or beatings, depending on
the scale of the offence and whim of the Hisbah, the local government.

The women regarded the ­female branch of Hisbah, the al-Khansaa brigade,
with particular fear. Their numbers included wives of foreign fighters,
radicalised local women, and impoverished recruits who joined because they
had little choice. “They were cruel, and stole from our homes during
searches,” Um Lamis said. “And they seemed to enjoy issuing beatings.”

Yet there was a realistic acceptance of Islamic State widows who had
escaped among them. Um Lamis said many had no choice in their husband’s
decisions, or that their dead husbands joined ISIS as an alternative to
poverty.

Compounding the shock of their flight from Raqqa and sudden freedom, many
women said the first fighters they had seen across no man’s land had been
Kurdish women from the YPJ, the all-female units fighting as part of the
SDF.

“One minute I lived in Raqqa, a city ruled by men,” said Um Lamis, “where
women had not even the power to show our faces. The next I am greeted by
armed Kurdish women, faces bare and their hair uncovered, guns in hands,
fighting the Daesh.

“They welcomed me as a sister! I bow to their courage!”

Contact with the YPJ cadres, each versed in the rights of women as a
central part of their own ideology, has left an indelible ­impression on
many Raqqa women.

The emerging system of local governance is remarkable for its difference,
too. Typically, the Rojava territory is governed by local 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Helps Drive 200, 000 Syrians From Their Homes

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Gutman's unreliable hackery isn't just indicated by the Turkish state's
sponsorship of him, and his breezy use of the term "ethnic cleansing" and
general distortion of the recent UN report that Chris mentions. After his
Nation smear jobs earlier this year, two of his sources complained that he
distorted their views. He also ludicrously distorted the battles of Shinjar
and Kobane to paint the PKK-led current as collaborators with ISIS bent on
regional domination at the expense of the innocent defenseless parties
Turkey and the KRG. See
http://exiledonline.com/the-war-nerd-a-response-to-neocon-hit-man-roy-gutman/
(not that I agree with everything this guy says on Syria but he dies nail
Gutman's distortion) and my article
http://links.org.au/fake-news-rojava-revolution

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On 6/5/17 8:33 PM, Chris Slee wrote:

Thus, Gutman was embedded with the Turkish army and its allied militias.  He 
seems to be Turkey's equivalent of Vanessa Beeley.


No, he is just being Roy Gutman. When he was writing articles denouncing 
Milosevic as a genocidal monster, he never got on your shit list, did he?

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Roy Gutman was in northern Syria as a guest of the Turkish government.  He 
effectively admits this when he says:

"Reporting on the civilians displaced by the Raqqa offensive has been sparse, 
partly because of limited access.  Citing security concerns, the Turkish 
government restricts reporters' access to the territory that it controls.  The 
government permitted a Daily Beast reporter to travel here only under escort 
and provided an armored SUV and armed Syrian rebel units in two pickup trucks 
for protection".

Thus, Gutman was embedded with the Turkish army and its allied militias.  He 
seems to be Turkey's equivalent of Vanessa Beeley.

Hence it is no surprise that this article contains allegations of anti-Arab 
racism on the part of the Syrian Democratic Front.  These allegations should be 
treated with skepticism.

Gutman cites UN reports, but draws incorrect conclusions from them.  He says:  
"According to a May 28 UN report, 200,000 civilians have been made homeless 
since November - all from ISIS-controlled towns and villages surrounding 
Raqqa".  This is the result of heavy fighting in the area, but Gutman talks of 
"ethnic cleansing".

He admits that some of the displaced people have returned to their homes, but 
implies that most will not be allowed to do so.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs report is critical 
of some measures taken by the SDF (e.g. "lengthy security checks", involving 
"confiscating ID cards and travel documents", and "delayed return of IDs or 
travel documentation").  But it makes no suggestion that these practices are 
ethnically motivated, or that there is an intention to permanently prevent most 
of the displaced people from returning to their homes.

Some displaced people have been unable to return home due to hazards such as 
unexploded mines.  For example, the UN report mentions that in the town of 
Tabqa, "The process of removing mines continues in the National Hospital and 
its surroundings".  

Despite this, the report says that more than 15,000 displaced people have 
returned to Tabqa, bringing its population up to 35,000, compared to 80,000 
before the fighting.  

(More recently, according to Kurdish sources, the population of Tabqa has 
reached 65,000)

The UN report gives a number of other examples of people returning home, 
including the following:

"People continue to return to their communities of origin in the villages of 
the Ar-Raqqa sub-district such as Tal Elsamen Dahham, Sukariyet Tal Elsamen, 
Thulth Khneiz, Abbara, Kalta, Hilo Abed and Rohayat...

"On 21 May SDF allowed approximately 6,000 people to return to their home town 
Hazima..."

Despite its bias, Gutman's article does make one useful point.  He points out  
that the US is not giving any aid to refugees in SDF-controlled areas.  The UN 
is only able to send a small amount of aid, due to the blockade by Turkey and 
the [Iraqi] Kurdistan Regional Government.

Chris Slee



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After U.S. bombing ousts ISIS militants from the villages they’ve
occupied, the proxies on the ground set up by the U.S.—the Syrian
Democratic Forces—enter the villages and order the mostly Arab
population to leave at gunpoint. People say they are stripped of their
identity cards and herded like livestock to a transit camp.
The SDF, which has Arabs in its ranks but is dominated by Kurds, tells
these internally displaced persons, or IDPs, as they are called in
humanitarian jargon, that they can return to their homes if they find a
local sponsor. Otherwise, their only option is to exit the region. Many
arrive in Jarablus bearing only travel papers authorizing a one-way trip
out of the Raqqa area within 24 hours.

full:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/us-helps-drive-20-syrians-from-their-homes
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U.S. Helps Drive 200,000 Syrians From Their 
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That's why I'm willing to do it for free.


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Actually I don't think it's your job to tell English Muslims how to show
solidarity with their fellow citizens murdered by reactionary arseholes.

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> Have they ever done this before for other murderers and criminals? For
> soldiers and security personnel who commit brutality against others? I find
> this kind of grandstanding wholly pathetic. It is not the job of Muslims to
> prove that they aren't terrorist to a racist UK society.
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Have they ever done this before for other murderers and criminals? For
soldiers and security personnel who commit brutality against others? I find
this kind of grandstanding wholly pathetic. It is not the job of Muslims to
prove that they aren't terrorist to a racist UK society. If it is standard
to give someone funeral rites even though they are a terrible person, then
they should not have to bend their religious principles to accommodate the
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Dreams of Revolution: Oklahoma, 1917 | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Monthly Review

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When I got to Houston to help build the SWP branch in 1973, there was a 
husband and wife in their 50s who were from Oklahoma. They were 
recruited by their son who I knew from the Boston branch. The dad was a 
baker, not sure if the mom worked, but they were radicals from an early 
age that got their politics from their parents. Even though they lined 
up with the faction I was sent to Houston to "smash", I really liked 
them. Much more genuine than anybody in the faction I belonged to. They 
are long gone but I wonder whatever happened to their son who was an 
Oklahoma style "good old boy".

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Dreams of Revolution: Oklahoma, 1917 | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Monthly Review

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Back in 1957, I was hitch-hiking back to Indiana from California one summer, 
guitar case in hand, when a older farmer in an beat up red pickup truck stopped 
to give me a lift.  He said the deal was I got the ride if I did a song for him.

Being as how we were in Oklahoma, I did Pretty Boy Floyd:


Pretty Boy Floyd
by Woody Guthrie

If you'll gather 'round me, children,
A story I will tell

About Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw,
Oklahoma knew him well.

It was in the town of Shawnee,
On a Saturday afternoon,
His wife beside him in the wagon
As into town they rode.

A deputy sheriff approached him
In a manner rather rude,
Using Vulgar words of language
An' his wife she overheard them.

Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain,
The deputy grabbed his gun;
And in the fight that followed
He laid that deputy down.

Then he took to the hills and woodlands
To live a life of shame;
Every crime in Oklahoma
Was added to his name.

But many a starving farmer
The same old story told
How this outlaw paid their mortgage
And saved their family homes.

Others tell you of a stranger
That came to beg a meal,
And underneath his napkin
Left a hundred-dollar bill.

It was in Oklahoma City,
It was on a Christmas Day,
There came a whole car load of groceries
And a letter that did say

"Well, you say that I'm an outlaw,
You say that I'm a thief.
Here's the Christmas dinners
For the families on relief."

As through this world I've rambled
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.

As through your life you ramble,
As through your life you roam,
You won't never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.

When I got done he said 'that's a true song."

Then he said, "Back then we all loaded up and went to town.  We took the phone 
company and the electric company and the ice house and the bank and whatever 
else we had to.  Then that son of a bitch Roosevelt got it and made us give 
them all back. But sometime we'll get them back again." 

T





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[Marxism] Fwd: [New post] A Company That Was Bound to Kill Someone

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> Date: June 5, 2017 at 2:26:08 PM EDT
> To: "Richard Sprout" 
> Subject: [New post] A Company That Was Bound to Kill Someone
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> 
> New post on Confined Space
> 
> 
> A Company That Was Bound to Kill Someone
> by jbarab
> Zachary Henzerling, a 20 year old " big kid at heart," was on his
third week at work for Environmental Enterprises Inc., a hazardous waste
management facility in Spring Valley, Ohio, when he was killed 2012 in a
flash fire and explosion on Dec. 28, 2012.
> 
> Last week the company plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of negligent
homicide in the death of Henzerling.  The company got off easy:
> 
> The Spring Grove Village company was initially charged with reckless
homicide, a felony, which was later amended to negligent homicide, a
misdemeanor. Other counts of involuntary manslaughter, a felony, and
four counts of violating the terms of a solid waste license were
dropped.
> 
> Charges against Henzerling's supervisor, 33-year-old Kyle Duffens,
were also dropped as a part of the plea agreement.
> 
> "This is definitely a company that was bound to kill someone and when
the did, they got a slap on the wrist."
> 
> Henzerling's death was particularly heartbreaking (and listen to the
video):
> 
> James Henzerling could barely recognize his son Zach's charred body on
the hospital bed where he was fighting for his life. Zach Henzerling was
blinded from melted safety goggles that oozed into his eyes, and 90
percent of his body was covered in thick, black burns.
> 
> As he watched his only child on the cusp of death, the only way
Henzerling could show his son that he was there was by holding his bare
foot – the only part of his body that had not been burned.
> 
> Despite the guilty plea, the company continues to claim it was
baseless.
> 
> In a statement, the company said the fire was a result of a shipment
of mislabeled air filters.
> 
> "EEI was not alerted to (the air filters') highly flammable nature,"
said president Dan McCabe. "We had no idea we were shipped something
that would explode. Had we known, we would have never accepted the
shipment."
> 
> But he OSHA report says otherwise:
> 
> According to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration
records, Henzerling was working the third shift with the coworker to
process oxidizing oxygen filters contaminated with sodium chlorate,
which is a noncombustible solution that can accelerate the burning of
surrounding combustible materials.
> 
> After being instructed by his manager to break apart the wire mesh
filter holder in order to speed up the dissolving process, "one employee
asked the supervisor if they could use a portable electric reciprocating
saw to cut apart the wire mesh holding the filters," an OSHA report
states. As Henzerling was holding the filter near his midsection, the
employee noticed smoke emitting from the filter. A series of three
blasts occurred, engulfing the room in flames. The employee working with
Henzerling stayed with him until paramedics arrived.
> 
> In June 2013, OSHA issued 16 "serious" and four "willful" violations
of OSHA standards. A willful violation is the most serious breach of
OSHA's rules and indicates "the employer either knowingly failed to
comply with a legal requirement (purposeful disregard) or acted with
plain indifference to employee safety."
> 
> The citations included violations of standards covering the company's
failure to train employees, ventilate the flammable storage room, no
written housekeeping program for arsenic and other chemicals, inadequate
decontamination procedures and written emergency response plan, and
precautions had not been taken to prevent ignition of flammable vapors
in the flammable storage room.
> 
> OSHA's initial penalties totaled $294,300 and the company was added to
OSHA's Severe Violators List. The penalties were later reduced in a
settlement to $45,000.
> 
explosions, accidents and injuries dating all the way back to 1976.
> 
> One observer who was familiar with the case and requested anonymity, 
observed that "This is definitely a company that was bound to kill
someone and when the did, they got a slap on the wrist."
> 
>  
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[Marxism] Fwd: Dreams of Revolution: Oklahoma, 1917 | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | Monthly Review

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More on the Green Corn Rebellion. Would make another "Free State of 
Jones" if Hollywood was smart.


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[Marxism] Unions react to the MAX killings | nwLaborPress

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https://nwlaborpress.org/2017/06/unions-react-to-the-max-killings/


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[Marxism] Fwd: [New post] Mexico ruling party seen scraping to victory in key state vote

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> Subject: [New post] Mexico ruling party seen scraping to victory in key state 
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> Mexico ruling party seen scraping to victory in key state vote
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> 6/5/2017 Reuters
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> Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) likely won a key 
> state election on Sunday by a slim margin, according to an official 
> preliminary projection of results that was quickly challenged by the leftist 
> party seen in second place.
> 
> An early count from the State of Mexico's electoral institute projected PRI 
> candidate Alfredo del Mazo as winning between 32.75 percent and 33.59 percent 
> of the vote.
> 
> The candidate of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement 
> (MORENA) was seen taking between 30.73 and 31.53 percent.
> 
> If the forecast is correct it will have been a close call for President 
> Enrique Pena Nieto's PRI, which has governed the state for nearly nine 
> decades, and will not end the aspirations of Lopez Obrador, a veteran leftist 
> who has led early opinion polls for the July 2018 presidential race.
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[Marxism] British Radio Stations Ban Anti–Theresa May Song - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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[Marxism] Fwd: New Book: Latin America after the Financial Crisis – Economic Ramifications from Heterodox Perspectives – Radical Political Economy

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[Marxism] Fwd: Grand Canyon at risk as Arizona officials ask Trump to end uranium mining ban | Environment | The Guardian

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[Marxism] China's global leadership?

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From an article on China's global leadership in today's Counterpunch:
"China is crafting agreements with willing partners on climate and 
sustainable development around the globe ranging from the Belt and Road 
initiative and now with the EU and U.S. states like California. Governor 
Brown can find partners for sustainable development in Beijing, not 
Washington."


Yes, China is far better on alternative energy than the USA but the 
state of Chinese waterways is horrendous.


NY Times, April 11 2016
Rural Water, Not City Smog, May Be China’s Pollution Nightmare
By CHRIS BUCKLEY and VANESSA PIAO

BEIJING — More than 80 percent of the water from underground wells used 
by farms, factories and households across the heavily populated plains 
of China is unfit for drinking or bathing because of contamination from 
industry and farming, according to new statistics that were reported by 
Chinese media on Monday, raising new alarm about pollution in the 
world’s most populous country.


After years of focus on China’s hazy skies as a measure of environmental 
blight, the new data from 2,103 underground wells struck a nerve among 
Chinese citizens who have become increasingly sensitive about health 
threats from pollution. Most Chinese cities draw on deep reservoirs that 
were not part of this study, but many villages and small towns in the 
countryside depend on the shallower wells of the kind that were tested 
for the report.


“From my point of view, this shows how water is the biggest 
environmental issue in China,” said Dabo Guan, a professor at the 
University of East Anglia in Britain who has been studying water 
pollution and scarcity in China.


“People in the cities, they see air pollution every day, so it creates 
huge pressure from the public. But in the cities, people don’t see how 
bad the water pollution is,” Professor Guan said. “They don’t have the 
same sense.”


The latest statistics are far from the first about the damage done to 
China’s underground water reservoirs and basins by runoff from farming 
and industry. Still, the numbers, which were issued recently but given 
extensive coverage by the Chinese news media only on Monday, revived 
concern.


“Does China have any clean underground water?” asked an online 
commentary by National Business Daily, which had earlier brought 
widespread notice to the data. “The recently published truth is alarming.”


Exactly how much of the alarm was justified was unclear.

Ma Jun, an environmentalist who is a director of the Institute of Public 
and Environmental Affairs in Beijing, noted that the survey measured 
water sources relatively close to the surface, and that many cities get 
their water from reservoirs that are hundreds or even thousands of feet 
deeper.


“Fewer and fewer cities are using the heavily polluted shallow-depth 
underground water,” Mr. Ma said in an interview. “Most are digging deep 
wells for drinking. This is a very important distinction that must be made.”


For years, the Chinese government has acknowledged that wells and 
underground water reserves were endangered by overuse as well as 
widespread contamination from industry and farming. In 2011, the 
Ministry of Environmental Protection issued a plan to cut the polluting 
of underground water resources by the end of this decade.
That plan said that China’s use of underground water grew from 57 
billion cubic meters a year in the 1970s to 110 billion cubic meters in 
2009, providing nearly one-fifth of the country’s total supplies. In the 
arid north, underground supplies provided about two-thirds of water for 
domestic needs, it said.


But estimates of pollution of underground sources have varied depending 
on the depth and location of the wells tested. An annual report from the 
Ministry of Water Resources said that in 2014, nearly half of 2,071 
monitored wells had “quite poor” water quality, and an additional 36 
percent had “extremely poor” quality.


“Environmental pollution has become a hot topic in recent years,” Zheng 
Yuhong, an agricultural resources expert who is a member of China’s 
national legislature, said last month during the annual meeting of the 
legislature, according to a report at the time. “But pollution of 
underground water has virtually been forgotten.”


The latest study found that 32.9 percent of wells tested across areas 
mostly in Northern and Central China had Grade 4 quality water, meaning 
that it was fit only for industrial uses, National Business Daily said. 
An additional 47.3 percent of wells were even worse, Grade 5. The 
contaminants included manganese, fluoride and triazoles, a set of 
compounds used in fungicides. In 

[Marxism] Our brand is Uselessness - Work in Trump's America

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A six-part series by Laurence Peterson documenting an example of downward
mobility in Post-Meltdown America

Part 1. Dumpster Diving for Work

In which the author attempts to fill a new role set for him by bourgeois
economists: as a “discouraged worker”

This series provides a sequel to the last one I wrote for this site, which
was posted going on two years ago (September, 2015). Since the Spring of
2014, the point at which that narrative broke off, the most pertinent
aspect of my working life has come to consist in the fact that what little
by way of relevant qualifications that attached me to a conventional
workforce then—which seemed to offer at least a still reasonable, if
rapidly declining, hope of eventual full-time, year-round employment, a
wage that would allow me to live independently, paid health insurance (with
large, and growing deductibles and co-payment fees, albeit), and even,
maybe, paid days off/holiday—had become completely and perhaps forever
severed. As such, I found myself forced to dumpster-dive at job
opportunities I would have. . .

full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/06/04/our-brand-is-uselessness/
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