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Honestly, MLs tend to do this with a lot of convos, I feel.

Discussion questions:

What TV shows or films have you watched recently?

What subscription services are you subscribed to, if any?

Question of the week:

What TV shows of 2023 are you currently enjoying?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1019353

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to help my friend with the algorithm.

We're international so any foreigners to the United States are welcome. The Communist Party of China will be there as well as other communist parties. Join in!

If you're Indigenous, join us.

If you're trans, join us.

If you're neurodivergent, join us.

If you're BIPOC in general or LGBTQI+ or neurodivergent/autistic, join us.

Please help us out in spreading the word anywhere and everywhere. The event starts in nine days so make sure to put this on your Outlook Calendar or Google Calendar or Vivaldi Calendar or whatever calendar app you use (maybe even a regular calendar). Make sure to set it with notifications since you won't want to miss this event. It's quite important within the over-a-hundred-year history of the Communist Party USA thus far.

Note: You do not have to be a member or past member of the Communist Party USA.

Note #2: You do not have to be from the United States (and, in fact, we encourage foreigners to join us, especially those from other communist parties).

From the description within this link:

"During this period of heightened imperialist aggression, we are witnessing the frenzied efforts of the U.S. to preserve its position as global hegemon. NATO is continuing to expand, the new cold war against China is escalating, and Cuba remains under heavy embargo and wrongfully listed as a state-sponsor of terrorism. The current tasks of the international working class are of extreme historical significance.

This conference comes at a very important and dynamic time. US Imperialism is on the march at a rate that we have not seen in decades. The looming end of the unipolar world order is causing much distress among the ruling class and they are desperate to preserve their power. The struggle for democracy and socialism in the United States is inseparable from the struggle against imperialism abroad."

You can find the full link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uFbujAswTPqOwrCEeVJ38A#/registration

We support Landback, decolonization, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and, of course, socialism (and later, communism). We support the labor movement and have many members who are in labor unions. We were there with Chris Smalls in setting up the Amazon Labor Union and JT Chapman (otherwise known as Second Thought) will be there. We are against the fascist menace as well as United States neo-colonialism abroad. We say Hands Off Haiti, Hands Off Tunisia, and Hands Off Peru, wherever US influence, military, and subterfuge is present.

The International Department of the CPUSA also has Red World Review, a new outlet that we're increasingly updating, which you can find through this link here: https://redworldreview.org

We also invite others to join the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), but of course, learn about the organization first (its history and its politics). You can find our literature here in International Publishers (we urge you to get the books from the original Marxist publisher rather than Amazon) as well as our Party Program here and our Constitution here. You can also contact us by district here.

(And I do suggest you contact us by district rather than by our main email, though you may indeed do that; an application directly to the individual districts will go better as we are currently swamped with messaging and applications and sometimes applications take months to a year and other times they may take a few weeks or a week at most.) So prioritize contacting the district rather than the main body itself. But make sure to do your research, even if you're already a communist, on the party, its history, its context, its politics, etc. (which means reading some of the literature).

There's also this neat archive of old CPUSA literature (as well as old Soviet, African, LatAm, and Asian literature) that has been saved from obscurity (over 1,200 works) by a man that goes by "Ismail"; you can access the archive here. I really suggest clicking through it as it's one of the best-kept secrets on the web and I'd like to spread this person's good works (as well as hard work) around.

A bunch of members of the CPUSA also made these reading lists to help others get started in learning more about us:

CPUSA Reading List - 2022

https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/VJlD0b3eh4gMJovaypGkuW4m3Au-aksj+6oNDi50UFI/embed/

Communism Reading Guide

https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/eAFqVc1JC8v8T5AEEWSPQ9YD4FR8tK6E97XEy+v78KQ/embed/

Lastly, since this is Reddit, consider starting an account on Lemmygrad or Hexbear (or both) since they're both communities untouched by Reddit shenanigans like the API fiasco.

(That's more of an aside than anything else.)

Anyway, tl;dr: join us for this event.

(kthnxbai)

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/813732

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It's for a friend.

I'm trying to get more people to subscribe to this channel.

It's for a friend.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/813606

From the article:

An angry, lawbreaking employer just became $39,000 poorer.

Fox 5 Atlanta reports:

“A decision has been made in the case involving the Fayetteville man who was given 91,500 oil-covered pennies in January 2021 as his final paycheck by the owner of Peachtree City auto repair shop A OK Walker Autoworks.

The former employee named Andreas Flaten contacted the Department of Labor when Miles Walker refused to give him a final paycheck. The Wage and Hour Division contacted Walker. The shop owner then dumped the thousands of pennies in the employee’s driveway along with a pay stub marked with an expletive and published defamatory statement about the former employee on the company’s website.

The US Department of Labor announced a lawsuit against Miles Walker in January 2022.

It was determined Walker violated the FLSA’s overtime provisions by paying the complainant and other employees straight-time rates for all hours worked, including for hours over 40 in a workweek when an overtime rate-of-pay was legally required.

The court has now ordered the Walker to pay nine former employees $39,934 in back wages and damages and has forbidding the owner from additional discrimination and retaliation against any employee.

The court ordered the auto shop operator to pay $39,934, representing back wages owed and an equal amount in liquidated damages, to nine workers.”

For the full story, visit Fox 5 Atlanta here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/813606

From the article:

An angry, lawbreaking employer just became $39,000 poorer.

Fox 5 Atlanta reports:

“A decision has been made in the case involving the Fayetteville man who was given 91,500 oil-covered pennies in January 2021 as his final paycheck by the owner of Peachtree City auto repair shop A OK Walker Autoworks.

The former employee named Andreas Flaten contacted the Department of Labor when Miles Walker refused to give him a final paycheck. The Wage and Hour Division contacted Walker. The shop owner then dumped the thousands of pennies in the employee’s driveway along with a pay stub marked with an expletive and published defamatory statement about the former employee on the company’s website.

The US Department of Labor announced a lawsuit against Miles Walker in January 2022.

It was determined Walker violated the FLSA’s overtime provisions by paying the complainant and other employees straight-time rates for all hours worked, including for hours over 40 in a workweek when an overtime rate-of-pay was legally required.

The court has now ordered the Walker to pay nine former employees $39,934 in back wages and damages and has forbidding the owner from additional discrimination and retaliation against any employee.

The court ordered the auto shop operator to pay $39,934, representing back wages owed and an equal amount in liquidated damages, to nine workers.”

For the full story, visit Fox 5 Atlanta here.