Pressure grows on May as a million people sign anti-Trump petition over 'Muslim ban'
A petition calling on a state visit by Donald Trump to be cancelled in the wake of his controversial immigration ban has passed a million signatures.
independent.co.uk
Consumers lash out at Uber and turn to Lyft after Uber’s immigration response
The backlash came as New York taxi drivers went on strike Saturday and joined a protest at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport against Trump’s order blocking entry to the U.S. by immigrants from select largely Muslim countries, while a tweet from Uber indicated the company had suspended surge pricing, causing some to view the company as seeking to undermine the strike.
marketwatch.com
(Peter Theil is an investor in Lyft, I think this is important to note in this whole saga.)
Benoît Hamon wins Socialist Party presidential primary in France
In a landslide victory, Benoît Hamon won yesterday’s second round of the ruling Socialist Party’s (PS) primary contest and became the party’s presidential candidate.
wsws.org
Actors Strike Against Video Game Industry Now Second-Longest in SAG History
The 96-day actors strike against selected video game companies is now the second-longest in the history of the Screen Actors Guild, topping the 95-day strike of 1980 that established contract terms for pay TV and videocassettes.
deadline.com
US growth rate lowest in five years
The US economy expanded at its slowest rate for five years in 2016 according to preliminary data issued on Friday. Gross domestic product (GDP) rose by only 1.6 percent in 2016, down from 2.6 percent in 2015, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported.
wsws.org
OP/EDs
COUP: Under cover of #muslimban, Bannon throws top general and spy off the National Security Council and installs himself in their stead
While the American public's attention was focused on the thousands of families whose lives were disrupted and even put at risk by Trump's ban on Muslims entering the USA, the US Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were removed from the list of permanent attendees in the President's National Security Council. They were replaced with white nationalist Trump advisor Steve Bannon.
boingboing.net
The Zapatista Candidate
By participating in Mexico’s 2018 election, the EZLN can bring its indigenous anticapitalist platform into mainstream politics.
jacobinmag.com
The call center as a site of control and resistance
Instead of seeing call centers as defined only by their technological methods of control and surveillance, they can be understood as a site of struggle and anger.
roarmag.org