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Support Amazon workers today

Amazon is an innovator: the company has invented some of the most sophisticated techniques ever seen to avoid taxation, the minimum wage, worker safety, and climate justice.

They pioneered worker misclassification, allowing them to treat their drivers as independent contractors or even subcontractors to independent contractors, even as they subjected those workers to supervision to rival the most invasive workplaces.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#weird-flex

They summoned into existence the "Mechanical Turks," among the lowest-paid pieceworkers in existence, largely overseas, receiving pennies (or fractional pennies) to backstop "AI" applications, proving that AI really stands for "absent Indians".

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-centaur

Amazon gets its workers coming and going: it's not just denying bathroom breaks and other human necessities, nor merely wage-theft - it's also tip-theft, stealing the alms we guilty customers toss to its workers to assuage our shame.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/amazon-ftc-pay-flex-drivers-stolen-tips.html

But the most visible sign of Amazon labor exploitation is in its warehouse workers, a vast army of "reverse centaurs" who serve as the hands of remorseless, relentless robots. The more automated an Amazon warehouse is, the more workers it maims.

https://www.ft.com/content/087fce16-3924-4348-8390-235b435c53b2?shareType=nongift

Amazon's incredible profitability during the lockdown was paid for with workers' lives. Its warehouses were the nexus of multiple covid outbreaks, and the company used racist smears to discredit workers who demanded basic safety precautions.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/03/socially-useless-parasite/#christian-smalls

Amazon understands that warehouse organizing is the beginning of the end for its extraction of inhuman work for inhuman wages.

That's why even its prized tech workers get fired for expressing solidarity with warehouse workers.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley/#hang-together-hang-separately

And it's why the project of organizing Amazon warehouse workers is so urgent. Amazon's plans for its warehouses are even more Dickensian than the current system. Take the "megacycle," a ten-hour shift that runs from 1:20AM to 11:50AM.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/05/la-bookseller-royalty/#megacycle

It's a shift that any worker would suffer under, but it's especially hard on women workers, forcing them to leave behind their families, and to commute to work at an hour when public transit isn't running.

The megacycle isn't just a way to realize "efficiencies" (more work for less money), it's also a way to punish labor activists: it's being piloted at DCH1, the Chicago warehouse whose workers made national news by demanding safe work conditions during the lockdown.

But Amazon's workers refuse to be intimidated. Warehouse workers continue to demand the right to organize and collectively bargain for a living wage and safe, humane working conditions.

In Bessemer, Alabama, Amazon warehouse workers are voting on union formation.

Amazon has pulled out every stop to sabotage the union vote. They even got the city to change the timing of the traffic lights near its warehouse so that organizers couldn't use red lights to talk to workers on their way to the plant.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-warehouse-union-traffic-light-change-bessemer

Statistically, you are probably an Amazon customer. So am I. They are nearly impossible to avoid. After all, not only has Amazon predated upon small businesses, eliminating choice - and what they didn't kill, private equity looters destroyed.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/

My problem with Amazon isn't the ease of buying web hosting or compute time; it's not the convenience of having a lot of goods for sale in one place; it's not the utility of music streaming or the entertainment from TV shows.

My problem with Amazon is its brutal labor policies, its tax evasion, its climate wreckage, its monopolistic predation, its union busting, its wage theft.

It's not like the company can't afford to end these crimes.

It made $20B in profits in 2020.

When we talk about a good Amazon, we're not talking about eliminating Amazon (though maybe we should break the company up). We're talking about shifting the disposition of that $20B, so it doesn't accrue solely to its shareholders.

Much of that $20B is the result of exploiting workers, dodging taxes (or even getting tax *subsidies*), stealing from suppliers, externalizing the climate and other costs of its business onto the rest of the world.

We all have a stake in a fair Amazon - whether or not we're Amazon customers. The workers in Bessemer have faced an onslaught of propaganda, spying and intimidation from Amazon and its contractors, the Pinkertons (yes, the *literal* Pinkertons).

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/04/how-to-truth/#awu

Many of us have recognized that the Bessemer workers deserve our solidarity. The Tech Workers Coalition, for example, has been running the #DoItWithRealPower campaign to counter Amazon's propaganda.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/19/deastroturfing/#real-power

Today, we have the chance to *directly* support the workers in Bessemer. SupportAmazonWorkers.org has organized 40+ solidarity demonstrations in cities in the USA and Canada, which you can attend.

https://supportamazonworkers.org/march20/

Amazon knows this fight matters and it doesn't just target @BAmazonUnion for propaganda. You're on the receiving end of those messages, too. That "news report" you watched about how cool an Amazon warehouse is? An ad disguised as news.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/28/holographic-nano-layer-catalyser/#quackspeak

Amazon workers in Germany have already unionized. The company can certainly pay living wages and continue to operate. It's not fighting for its life - its fighting to maintain incredibly high levels of profitability, no matter what the cost to workers and the world.

[kotoripiyopiyo]

RT @wifeisking: 「自信を奪う人がこの世で1番悪い人なんやで。イジメも差別もハラスメントもそう。自分の存在を否定してくる奴がいたらすぐに立ち去らなあかん。逃げてるって言われても関係ないの。褒められた経験は10回でも忘れたりするけど、自信を奪われたことは1回でも強烈に記憶に残って“前提”になっちゃうから」

「自信を奪う人がこの世で1番悪い人なんやで。イジメも差別もハラスメントもそう。自分の存在を否定してくる奴がいたらすぐに立ち去らなあかん。逃げてるって言われても関係ないの。褒められた経験は10回でも忘れたりするけど、自信を奪われたことは1回でも強烈に記憶に残って“前提”になっちゃうから」

— 妻のパンチライン (@wifeisking) July 29, 2020

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'Bayanihan' gives birth to radio station for distance learning

#PHnews: 'Bayanihan' gives birth to radio station for distance learning

CAUAYAN CITY – The spirit of "bayanihan" or cooperative endeavor has worked wonders for the Cauayan City Science and Technology High School here.

Members of the School Governing Council and General Parents and Teachers Association (GPTA) shared seed monies and effort for the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan of the Department of Education using the different learning delivery modalities to buy equipment for a school-owned radio station with a 15-watt transmitter named Radyo Edukalidad.

The radio-based learning modality is one of those set to be used by the Education department as classes open during this new normal.

On Sept. 16, the radio station's inaugural broadcast took place after the ceremonial ribbon-cutting and turnover ceremonies with local officials as guests.

Radyo Edukalidad now airs its educational programs and lesson simulations from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m. Then from Oct. 5, 2020 to June 30, 2021, radio programs will all be devoted to the School Radio-Based Instruction. Air distance of said station is approximately 14 kilometers and can reach all the 14 barangays in the East Tabacal region of Cauayan City and some parts of forest region-based barangays, as well as some parts of Naguilian and Reina Mercedes towns in central Isabela.

John Mina, school principal, said the laboratory radio “operates on the principles of narrowcasting” and ���is useful not only during the implementation of the basic education learning continuity plan but also in the implementation of the Special Program in Journalism which the school offers starting this school year.

“It is also open to all teachers in the area who would like to record their TV and Radio-Based Lessons since the studio is designed to serve multi-functions. It has also an editing section equipped with four desktop computers,” he added.

In a forum last month on the continuity of education amidst the global health crisis by Mina, GPTA president Edmund J. Cardona said there should be a concrete and definite move to address the problems on how to deliver education right at the homes of learners, some of whom lack gadgets and internet connectivity. He suggested Distance Learning via the School On-Air approach as the most convenient and effective yet less costly means of remote teaching and learning.

All key stakeholders present in that forum pledged donations to raise PHP120,000 for the equipment and training package. The following week until the last part of August, the school received the whole amount from various donors.

Prior to this, the school, through its Facebook page dubbed as TuLay (Tulong Mo, Alay Mo) sa Radyo, called on civic-spirited organizations and alumni to support the fund-raising campaign intended for the purpose.

A popular chain of chicken stores donated PHP100,000. The school alumni and other individuals pitched in PHP30,300. All of these were spent for the physical set-up of the broadcast studio, waiting lounge and editing section including procurement of an air-conditioning unit, and several pieces of furniture.

Another local chain of roasted chicken stalls in the city also gave PHP10,000.00 for the accommodation and travel expenses of two technicians and one trainer.

As part of the procurement package, a two and a half-day training on the technical aspect of handling Radio-Based Lessons was conducted on August 13-15. This was facilitated by broadcaster Domingo Fugaban.

All 36 teachers of the school were trained and had a taste of onboard experience as they delivered their lessons on the second and the third day of their training. They are now handling lesson simulations on air and various educational talk shows via Radyo-Edukalidad. (PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "'Bayanihan' gives birth to radio station for distance learning." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1115782 (accessed September 18, 2020 at 05:50AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "'Bayanihan' gives birth to radio station for distance learning." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1115782 (archived).

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Powerhouse

Remains of an old powerhouse built atop an older river lock on the Maury, a couple of miles down the railroad tracks. At the site of Gooseneck Dam. O Winston Link’s photo of the dam and falls was shot in the river near here. On Flickr © Eben Ostby May 05, 2020 at 07:50AM. All rights reserved

[ericmun]

[TRANS] 200427 Shinhwa’s Eric - “Eccentric! Chef Moon” - Moon Seung Mo IG Update

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01. The soup tastes good today, as always. #Pungcheonok #OpenForBusiness #NonyangFamousRestaurant #LunchFamousRestaurant #YesThisIsTheFlavor #MoonSeungMo

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02. You said you changed your hairstyle during these times. #BangsSeungMo #SidePartSeungMo #SlickedBackSeungMo #MoonSeungMo

03. Seola who finished learning Korean writing. #RiceSoupSoju #SeolaWhoCanReadTheNumber20000 #HedgehogPapa #AllThanksToVillageChairwomanPiGonSook #TheBookSeolaLikesToRead #Fun #EccentricChefMoon

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04. #EvenWhenHiking #EvenWhenSick #EngrossedInReading #FunBook

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05. #Obedient #MoonSeungMo

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06. You should eat meat for dinner tonight. #ChefMoonMenuRecommendation #ThisIsAustralianMade #KoreanBeefIsGoodToo #SaltSalt #SpiceSpice #CookingChefMoon

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07. We were busy today too. #RemindsMeOfTheOldDaysToo #NonyangFamousRestaurant #Pungcheonok #Workaholic #ChefMoon #Friday #MoveMove

On the video:

An order for two rice soups and one grilled short rib patties just came in. You can prepare the rice soup, right? All right, please hurry with the side dishes preparation. Ding! Table 3!

Translation: EricMun.tumblr

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