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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · about 5 hours ago

"Eid is among hundreds of UNRWA employees in Gaza who have already been dismissed, and more are expected to follow." "This is a disaster not only for us as dismissed employees, but for the refugees who are losing the services we provided." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Labour #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

mondoweiss.net

Amid deepening financial crisis, UNRWA conducts mass layoffs in Gaza

UNRWA says it is forced to cut services because it cannot cover a $70 million shortfall. But laid-off employees, its staff union, and its former spokesperson say the cuts are aimed at something broader: the refugee question itself.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · about 12 hours ago

"Everything is connected to it [AI] — health care surveillance, education, work, finances, our retirement." "[W]hether we're going to bail these guys out [if the AI bubble bursts] is the political question that will affect everything." #USA #AI #Technology #Labour #Voting #Taxes #Protest

truthout.org

The Fight Against Big Tech's AI Takeover Must Continue Past the Midterms

The midterms are just the start. Labor struggles and grassroots coalitions show a path forward for anti-AI organizers.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1 day ago

"Indonesia's government has asked Russia to cease recruiting its citizens to fight in the war against Ukraine." "[T]ricked into joining the Russian military under the guise of civilian employment." #Indonesia #Russia #Ukraine #Labour #Military

www.occrp.org

Indonesia Asks Russia to Stop Recruiting Its Citizens for Ukraine War

Indonesia is demanding Moscow halt the recruitment of its citizens for the war in Ukraine, citing a surge in mercenaries lured to the front lines by fake civilian job offers.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1 day ago

"[U]nconstitutional restrictions on collective bargaining." "Tens of thousands of Nova Scotia public sector workers who had their constitutional rights to freely bargaining restricted will now receive up to $470 million in compensation." #NovaScotia #Canada #Labour #Courts

www.readthemaple.com

Nova Scotia Workers Win Estimated $470 Million Settlement

A court ordered the provincial government to compensate an estimated 81,000 public sector workers.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"Days after the US Department of Justice threatened election officials in all 50 states with possible prosecution unless they preserve election records [...] a federal judge on Friday ordered the DOJ to reach out to the officials again, this time to rescind the threat." #USA #Labour #Voting #Courts

truthout.org

Federal Judge Shuts Down Trump's Threats to Prosecute Election Officials

The threat is the latest of Trump’s wide-ranging efforts to undermine democratic processes ahead of the midterms.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"Houston arms embargo campaign is calling on Texans to join their week of action to confront logistics executives complicit in unfathomable violence [...] at the 2026 Houston International Maritime Conference." #Texas #USA #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Labour #Protest #Weapons #Military #Genocide

truthout.org

Houston Activists Are Working to Disrupt the Flow of Weapons to Israel

Organizers and workers around the world are highlighting the invisible complicity of logistics companies in genocide.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2 days ago

"[S]econd International Day of Action of Dockworkers." "Dockworkers are saying they refuse to be complicit in waging war, let alone genocide." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #California #USA #SouthAfrica #Chile #Italy #Apartheid #Labour #Water #Transportation #Protest #Military #Weapons #Genocide

inthesetimes.com

Dockworkers Worldwide Are Striking for Palestine

The second International Day of Action of Dockworkers, in solidarity with Palestine and against militarism, begins.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 3 days ago

"The decriminalization of street vending across California with passage of Senate Bill 946 in 2018 was supposed to result in local law enforcement not citing street vendors." "[T]he police are still making them pack up." #California #USA #Policing #Food #Labour #Housing

lapublicpress.org

California decriminalized street vending. LAPD is still citing vendors in MacArthur Park

Vendors say LAPD is using 41.18 to harass them. Now they're part of a fight to repeal the anti-camping law entirely.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 3 days ago

"My own family, my father and his three brothers, lost about 50 acres." "[I]nterim authorities have signed two large real estate deals with Saudi developers on land in the western suburbs of Damascus that the old regime took from farmers in the 1970s and 1980s." #Syria #Labour #Military #Housing

newlinesmag.com

The Land Expropriations of the Assad Era Still Hang Over Syria

Farmers' livelihoods were taken away to build military bases and housing for regime supporters. The new government now seeks to redevelop these areas without redress.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 3 days ago

"[E]cocide." "Israel is bulldozing the land and the stones, everything." "Destroying productive land can prolong displacement, weaken the possibility of return, and make communities depend on aid instead of producing their own food." #Lebanon #Israel #Military #Food #Labour #EthnicCleansing

mondoweiss.net

Bulldozers, glyphosate, white phosphorus: Israel's destruction of South Lebanon's olive groves

Lebanese farmers are losing their livelihood as Israeli forces uproot centuries-old trees, destroy olive groves, and demolish entire towns and villages, rendering them uninhabitable.

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