Shares of the week

This one is a day late because I just started a new job!

Archaeology

‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows - “DNA recovered from burials in Greenland shows a mix of Scandinavian men from what is now Norway and women from the British Isles.” Those poor British chaps didn’t stand a chance.

Labour

The Working Class Is the Vast Majority of Society - Do you earn a wage or salary in order to fulfill your life needs? If so, you are part of the working class, as this article reminds us.

John Clarke: Basic reasons to oppose basic income - Many on the left don’t agree that a basic income is the answer to socioeconomic inequality caused by neoliberalism, and that it only provides a life support for the cruel and unsustainable capitalist system. I’m still a UBI supporter but this article provided a thoughtful challenge to my position.

Citations Needed Podcast: Ep. 118 - The Snitch Economy: How Rating Apps and Tipping Pit Working People Against Each Other - Those working in the service industry have some of the weakest protections in the labour force, while tipping and rating apps allow these workers to be further subjected to authoritarian rule by both their fellow working class comrades and by the ownership class. This eye-opening podcast goes into why we must abolish the capitalist practice of tipping while reminding us that until that happens, we must continue to tip these struggling workers.

Human Rights

‘Like an Experimental Concentration Camp’: Whistleblower Complaint Alleges Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center - The American doctor at the center of the controversy is supposedly referred to as the “uterus collector”. With RBG passing away, and Trump set to nominate what will be a sixth conservative judge to the three liberals on America’s highest court, we can expect women’s rights and human rights in the general in the “land of liberty” to erode further.

China

Experts call on Canadian universities to close off China's access to sensitive research - It is both naïve and dangerous to think that collaborating with China is mutually beneficial. It’s the duty of all Canadians to protect our national security and if universities aren’t going to do it, then we must consider banning all further relationships with China.

World Clean-up Day

Saturday was World Clean-up Day. This is what I managed to collect in my neighborhood in one hour. I believe strongly in community involvement and treating our environment with respect, and this is one way I put those beliefs into action.

Result of my contribution to world clean-up