Amazon claims that its injury rates are comparable to the average rate of warehouses with more than 1,000 employees. But Amazon employs 79 percent of all workers in this sector, meaning their own numbers have a disproportionate effect on that average.
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Columbia University has been the focus of recent media coverage, but the City College encampment was no less focused than the one at Columbia.
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“I always come back to ‘All workers,’ right? Working families in Palestine, working families in New York City,” TWU Local 100 vice president JP Patafio said. “They all have the same simple demands.”
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.madeleine cravens’s poem “Sapphic Fragment” from PLEASURE PRINCIPLE features in The Nation! ✨
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Charles Glass writes for The Nation:

“World Press Freedom Day rolls around again tomorrow (May 3). Biden will no doubt condemn Russia for unjustly interning American journalist Evan Gershkovich—as we all should. He is unlikely to mention the journalists arrested in Pakistan for…

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THE RESILIENCE MYTH and RAGE BECOMES HER author Soraya Chemaly in The Nation
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!!! A new study finds that Amazon accounts for 86% OF ALL INJURIES at large warehouses in the US. thenation.com/article/econom…

The idea of presidential criminal immunity is wholly unprecedented—but you wouldn’t know that from reading media reports about Trump’s SCOTUS hearing. As Elie Mystal writes, most reports chose to act as if this were a normal choice for the the country. bit.ly/3xRW3He

Amazon accounts for 79 percent of employment among warehouses with at least 1,000 workers, but 86 percent of all injuries. Last year, Amazon’s injury rate was almost triple that of Walmart, the next largest employer.
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The same State Department official, Donald Lu, who would criticize Pakistani election rigging this year informed Pakistan’s ambassador in April 2022 that “it will be tough going ahead” if Imran Khan remained in office.
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Talked to some TWU Local 100 leaders for The Nation about why MTA bus operators do not, in fact, have to act as prisoner-transport drivers after mass arrests. thenation.com/article/activi…

Scores of people were arrested at City College on Wednesday—a scene “very reminiscent of the 1968 police crackdowns” at Columbia University, said one protester.
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“Our people are not trained for this,” TWU International President John Samuelson said. “They are under enough mental and physical stress when they come to work every day.”
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Apparently, Trump is comfortable with red states using whatever power they can muster to prosecute women who seek abortion where it’s legal. Including “monitoring women’s pregnancies,” whatever that means:
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Columbia president Minouche Shafik has thrown pro-Palestinian faculty under the bus and disregarded academic freedom. Her decision to bring in the NYPD was a catastrophic failure of judgment that renders her unfit to remain in office.
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Joe Biden will celebrate World Press Freedom Day tomorrow. Bit is a safe bet that he’ll have nothing to say about Assange or Imran Khan, both behind bars for defying the US.
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Exclusive: A new report released by the National Employment Law Project and over a dozen other workers’ rights groups finds that Amazon workers experience a disproportionate share of injuries in the warehousing industry.
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Critics of Gen Z aren’t addressing a problem of young people who can’t cope but of young people who refuse to conform, writes Soraya Chemaly.
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NEW: amazon says its injury rates are down. analysis from National Employment Law Project of the latest OSHA data shows they're still the highest in the industry. in The Nation today:

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