how bout some good news
most of this week's good news is about bad things happening to bad people and i for one love it when people get what they deserve.
i hope you are finding ways to believe that we will make it through this together, whether that's grounding in the history of principled struggle, spending time with elders or young people, or just disassociating for a bit to shake off the scaries.
suck on that, bezos
the NLRB continues to fight against anti-union tactics, this time taking aim at "captive audience" meetings which are essentially your job's worst pizza party. i am worried about how the NLRB will fair after inauguration and this is a reminder why we should fight for it.
Mandatory “captive audience” meetings in which companies argue against unionization are illegal, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in a case involving Amazon.com Inc., prohibiting one of employers’ most potent weapons against labor organizing campaigns. Requiring workers to attend anti-union gatherings violates federal labor law protections that allow workers to freely choose whether, when, and how to participate in a debate about union representation—including refraining from doing so, the NLRB’s Democratic majority held in its Wednesday ruling.
Robert Iafolla
Palestine Action wins again
with yet another victory for Palestine Action, target direct action continues to be the only effective means for fighting this genocide. you can join Palestine Action here.
In an email to Palestine Action on November 14th 2024, Hydrafeed announced they’ve cut ties with Israel’s biggest weapons firm, Elbit Systems, and their subsidiaries. This victory comes after a sustained direct action campaign by Palestine Action which involved activists abseiling inside Hydrafeed to dismantle their equipment, smashing through the front doors and spraying their premises in blood red paint. To date, no-one has been arrested for these actions.
bluehost
we have what we need to build differently
some of my favorite things that i include in this newsletter are examples of new building materials that are less harmful to our planet. in this case, it's a really old building material supported by new technology. globally the construction industry creates 37% of global emissions and we can and should change the way we build.
Researcher Tavs Jorgensen has created a method of extruding cob into brick shapes, in an effort to make the low-carbon biomaterial more accessible. Used to create bricks that can be stacked in interlocking patterns, the process involves pushing different samples of cob – a construction material made from earth and straw – through 3D-printed extrusion moulds known as dies. "The fibres bind the cob composite together, so firing is not necessary," he continued. "Avoiding firing makes cob bricks an extremely low-carbon building material." "Unfired cob bricks can also easily be returned to the raw state of the components – basically just earth and composable fibres – so complete material circularity can be achieved with no waste at all."
Amy Peacock
a schadenfreude / poetic justice combo
as part of his bankruptcy auction where alex jones has to sell all his shit to pay damages to the families of Sandy Hook victims, infowars was just sold to the onion and i for one think this is gonna be a good time.
He shared that The Onion, a satirical news website, won the bid for Infowars on Thursday at Jones’s bankruptcy auction, along with the Connecticut Sandy Hook families of victims. Jones previously said the massacre was a “hoax.” Jones was held liable for nearly $1.5 billion in damages due to his false claims about the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. The families moved to liquidate his business and take over his social media accounts, which was granted by a judge in September.
Ashleigh Fields
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with hope,
katie wills evans