Migrant fishers in Taiwan are stepping up their demands for labor rights. #WifiNOWforFishersRights met today w/ EU Trade 🇪🇺 in Taipei on why Wi-Fi is necessary for fishers to fight against forced labor, wage theft & dangerous working conditions. #EUCSDDD 1/2

Sitting on Bertolt Brecht's lap. 'Father, tell me more about the dialectic.'

Real wages in Italy are ~8% lower than before the pandemic. Germany also with a large loss in inflation-adjusted wages of ~5%. Other Eurozone countries show (sizeable) real wage gains over the same period, especially Portugal, followed by Greece, Belgium, Spain

Via Erik Fossing Nielsen 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

A great future lies ahead...your AI and my AI should meet to discern whether we should hook up

In a Surprise, Cornell’s President Resigns nytimes.com/2024/05/09/us/…

Am heutigen Tag in 1941 begannen Fabrikarbeiter einen der ersten Streiks im von den Nazis besetzten Europa.

Sie riskierten schwere Repressionen, um sich gegen Armutslöhne zu wehren und der Besatzung zu trotzen.

Stan De Spiegelaere und ich dazu im Jacobin Magazin.

jacobin.de/artikel/faschi…

France Says It Built the Olympics Safely. Migrant Workers Don’t Count. nytimes.com/2024/05/08/wor…

Soaring remittances to developing nations overtake foreign direct investment theguardian.com/global-develop…

Interesting article on US ownership of English football clubs >>> When a Bunch of Bloody Yanks Came for English Soccer nytimes.com/2024/05/04/mag…

This article is really pushing the line that there should be no such thing retirement > Rothley: Man, 98, says it is 'a pleasure' to still be going to work bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Tackling the care crisis >>> ‘We can live again’: Belgian nursing home residents hit the nightclubs theguardian.com/society/articl…

'‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests' theguardian.com/world/article/…

Belgium's ports drowning under glut of Chinese electric cars. Due to China's overcapacity in production – as it aims to capture a quarter of the European electric vehicle market – the ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge are inundated.
lemonde.fr/en/economy/art…

Solidarity with Nurgül!

A lil portrait of my go-to radio station > An Online Radio Station Where Everything Is Eclectic nytimes.com/2024/05/03/art…

The Southern €zone (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal) has posted higher GDP growth since Q4-2019 than the rest of the €zone.

The main reason is higher investment, which was helped by suspending EU fiscal rules and introducing the EU's Covid-19 recovery fund.

via Paolo Grignani

Breaking: Israel govt has voted in favour of banning Al Jazeera. This is an attack on press freedoms. Aljaz employs more Pal journalists than other news orgs. Many of their jouros have been killed in Gaza. AJ+'s collab with Wizard_bisan1 was recently nominated for a Peabody Awards

Almost 400 Cornell faculty members, several entire departments, and Cornell’s American Association of University Professors chapter have signed onto a letter calling for Cornell University to lift the suspensions of six nonviolent student protestors cornellsun.com/2024/05/03/lie…

The debate over the Anthropocene, explained youtube.com/watch?v=Oh2Rev…

The problem with the coverage of the US campus protests | The Listening Post youtube.com/watch?v=t4f9ul…