Sunday Reading

Karen Gregory:

• Belabored Podcast #59: Labor Rights as Civil Rights, with Moshe Marvit
• Minneapolis UPS Workers Protest Shipments to Missouri Police
• Fast-Food Workers Challenge Stereotypes, Globalize Question of Fairness
• Minnesota Home Care Workers Unionize
• Adjunct Pay and Anger
• Activists Sound Alarm as More Police Departments Consider Using Drones
• Feminist Video Game Critic Driven Out Of Her Home By Death Threats From Gamers
• Selfcare as Warfare
• Money Talks

A Labor Day Guard Labor sampler, from Frank Pasquale:

• Ferguson drives up Taser stock.
• Collapse of urban economy, defense boom.
• 620,000 military families food insecure.
• Towing cars, ruining lives.
• The art of sociological argument.
• Apple well ahead of US regulators on mobile health privacy.
• Class action against Facebook.

Kerim Friedman:

• New Ghettos Burning
• Ralph Wiggum's Finest Moments
• Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong (or, the lies typographers tell about history)
• The underestimated contributions of liberals to mass incarceration
• Who is Zephyr Teachout? A Candidate Who Wants Your Votes, Democrats
• A Habit of Destruction
• The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism
• I Went From Grad School to Prison
• What court rulings against FedEx mean for workers
• The Great Schism
• Exposing the great 'poverty reduction' lie
• 11 environmental disasters Narendra Modi blessed in his first 100 days

Kitabet:

• "He was buried on a Monday and by the time it happened, he was cause, he was principle, a platform for voter’s registration, a morality play, an archetype, a cautionary tale."
• The Search for a Kurdish Alphabet
• Mary Beard, Troll Slayer
• “Myths, deaths, and dams seem to be good bedfellows.” 
• South Napa Earthquake: Which Fault’s at Fault?
• The Potential Condescension of “Informed Consent”
• “what happened in L’Aquila is a window onto how we think about, communicate, and live with risk, and about impediments to clear thinking that afflict us all.”
• “Hindis” in Istanbul: Field Notes on the Making of an Archival Subject
• Selfcare as Warfare
• "My mother then asked her 'which apartment are you targeting so that we know where to hide?'"
• Who are The Insurgents and Counterinsurgents?
• 52 Blue: The Loneliest Whale in the World
• “I drew a plane bombing houses. I love my country and I miss it a lot.”

Jacob Remes:

• Religion and politics
• Neoliberal attacks on sociological inquiry
• What would Mary Beard do?
• How not to write an endorsement
• Awakening to an earthquake

ReclaimUC:

• Cal disorientation guide 2014
• Napolitano hopes UC can cash in on companies, not just research
• What's wrong with journalism about college? Everything.
• "During the 2012-2013 school year, 93.9% of all tickets from LAUSD police were given to black and Latino students."
• Conflicts of interest force L.A. Unified Schools to halt contract for iPadsReworking the university
• "Profiting off students' rapes"
• The history of the University of Phoenix
• Administrators are not to be trusted
• "Teaching in South L.A., the trauma of constant death, loss and mourning shapes many of my students’ lives."
• At college football games, student sections likely to have empty seats
• "The professoriate is not the only aspect of the academy that has become adjunctified."
• Indigenous universities in Bolivia graduate their first students
• Emails reveal pro-Israel lobbying pressured University of Illinois to fire Steven Salaita
• "[T]he celebration of 'civility' conflates the tone of disagreement with disagreement itself, and ultimately suppresses both"
• Open letter from Natalie Zemon Davis to Chancellor Phyllis Wise on the firing of Salaita
• How to teach kids about what's happening in Ferguson
• College cops score defense supplies
• "[T]he rate of police killings of black Americans is nearly the same as the rate of lynchings in the early decades of the 20th century"
• What I've learned from two years collecting data on police killings
• Blackness, churning oppression, and militarized urban space
• The making of "outside agitators"
• "Hands up, don't ship!"
• "[P]ossession is nine tenths of the law—the other tenth is reparations"
• A brief history of Block the Boat in Oakland

Nathan Deuel:

• "I said, 'I got this,' and they said, 'who are you?' and I said, 'I'm just Robin Hood 702.’"
• "Machines take your used water bottles, calculate their worth and issue a credit to your public transport pass.”
• "They're everywhere, and if they were even half as big as a puppy, they would literally eat us all - to the bones.”
• "Queen Victoria, Empress of India, reigned over a planet-encompassing booty call.”
• "A woman named Jen wrote, only once: 'Just want to give it a hug.’"
• "It's like being born," he said as he zipped his wetsuit and prepared to go back out.
• "A disc jockey known as DJ Butt is part of his entourage.”
• "The head of Syria's preeminent crime family waits, crocodilelike, for the American angler to tumble out of the boat”
• “Ya Allah when it’s my time to go have mercy on my soul have mercy on my bros.”
• "We're not sad. We know where the liquor store is.”