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341 followers · 8039 posts · Server todon.euBanned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools
https://todon.eu/@alks/110231545023770648
London Book Fair: French publisher arrested on arrival in UK
https://todon.eu/@alks/110225981406850125
with anti-terror laws the UK uses to silence Kurds
https://kolektiva.social/@Freedom_Press/110248015317438793
Third of UK librarians asked to censor or remove books, research reveals
https://todon.eu/@alks/110231885187448584
Vivendi set to win EU green light for Lagardere deal,
https://todon.eu/@alks/110231612903835848
with "a red line"
https://todon.eu/@alks/110231632988841757
first issue of an irregular publication by the Counter-surveillance resource center
https://kolektiva.social/@dirtyhands/110194975817158300
The Archival Workers Collective has released findings of our Spring 2022 survey.
https://glammr.us/@archivalworkerscollective/110215462156365224
Elsevier: NeuroImage transition - all editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal, Imaging Neuroscience
https://scicomm.xyz/@chrisdc77/110214726881693641
genders
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336 followers · 7636 posts · Server todon.euTexas County to Consider Shutting Down Library
https://todon.eu/@alks/110181162243631095
Thousands at Rutgers University are on strike
https://jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/support-the-strike-at-rutgers-university/
The staff of Solid State Books in Washington, D.C., has officially unionized
https://todon.eu/@alks/110186399586907637
Barnes & Noble Education Workers Seek to Unionize
https://todon.eu/@alks/110175556610165962
From April 11 through 17, members of the Writers Guild of America will vote online to decide whether or not to authorize a walkout.
https://todon.eu/@alks/110175130984322819
Join the #Amazon Strike Solidarity Rally this Monday, 17th April
https://mastodon.online/@IWW_FJU/110193727725979139
IN DENIAL: Amazon’s Continuing Failure to Fix Its Injury Crisis
https://todon.eu/@alks/110197580810806550
Amazon applies for first incentives for HQ2: As much as $152 million
https://todon.eu/@alks/110203400736818841
Another successful Drag Queen Story Hour defense in DC
https://kolektiva.social/@LukefromDC/110176840000332817
why the nazis are obsessed with censoring your kid's school library
https://mastodon.social/@AnarchoNinaWrites/110203836101976173
Has Tony Burke "Secured the future of Trove"?
https://ausglam.space/@blogs/110159475384654811
~*Wishlist!*~
https://mastodon.social/@Grinningkittenpress/110187867425748857
freddy mercuwury
https://plush.city/@CAETFOOD/110186821000482077
:anarchopunk: 🤓
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325 followers · 7157 posts · Server todon.euThe RESTRICT Act is absolutely the wrong approach to protecting data privacy.
https://mastodon.social/@torproject/110154080352715739
ChatGPT Is Banned in Italy Over Privacy Concerns
https://todon.eu/@alks/110152783538530481
Judge Finds Texas Library's Book Bans Unconstitutional, Orders Books Returned
https://todon.eu/@alks/110135903660808744
Audible tests out advertisements in audiobooks
https://todon.eu/@alks/110141438167404075
Book Despository is closing
https://wandering.shop/@bookishbrews/110142367857173390
Publishers Worry A.I. Chatbots Will Cut Readership
https://todon.eu/@alks/110141547701368749
Opinion - A new book-ban fiasco in Florida reveals the monster DeSantis created
https://todon.eu/@alks/110135964978990548
Z-Library Plans to Let Users Share Physical Books Through ‘Z-Points’
https://burn.capital/@TorrentFreak_rss/110164968060262866
International Martyrs of the Revolution: Ivana Hoffman
a bundle of TTRPGs from independent creators being sold on itch.io to raise funds for trans rights in Florida
https://queer.group/@elexia/110148183582891195
sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.
https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/11013500299668564
This is endemic
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74 followers · 1785 posts · Server todon.euAmazon workers at a depot in Coventry are poised to go on strike in the New Year over a £15-an-hour pay claim after members voted "yes" in a ballot for industrial action.
Members of the GMB Union voted to hold a second ballot after narrowly missing out on the 50% turnout threshold in October. In the new vote, 63% of members cast a ballot, with 98% of them in favour of a strike in the new year.
Nearly a quarter of the 1,400 staff employed at a depot in Coventry could walk out, becoming the first Amazon workers in the UK to strike.
Remember that Amazon workers' global action for Make Amazon Pay Day (a.k.a. Black Friday)!
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54 followers · 1140 posts · Server todon.euPeople are able to donate to the stand on Epilogue’s website. They can purchase young adult, middle grade or nonfiction queer books that the Epilogue staff displays, Iori said. Patrons can also purchase a book to donate in-person in the store by letting employees know at check-out the book is for Reading Rainbows.
“The idea is that queer youth, or anyone who wants a free queer book, can just pick it up,” she described.
Wow, this way too cool!
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52 followers · 986 posts · Server todon.euAmazon will be forced to read out a public notice this week to all employees at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, where workers won the first Amazon union election, stating it will "cease and desist" from retaliating against people involved in union organizing.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/28/amazon-staten-island-new-york-retaliation
\(^v^)/ Yeay! Union busters get busted!
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52 followers · 986 posts · Server todon.euAmazon will be forced to read out a public notice this week to all employees at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, where workers won the first Amazon union election, stating it will "cease and desist" from retaliating against people involved in union organizing.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/28/amazon-staten-island-new-york-retaliation
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51 followers · 935 posts · Server todon.euThe global strike action on one of the biggest shopping days of the year was called for by campaign group Make Amazon Pay. It has titled the protests 'Make Amazon Pay Day'.
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38 followers · 397 posts · Server todon.euListen, I know I said that I would not talk about the International Publishers Congress.
But Publishers Weekly's only article on the actual program is this one.
And they're pulling up a #WhatAboutTheChildren to expand publisher's control over education?
As I wrote two weeks ago, one of the panelist of 'The Value of EdTech' - that PW is talking about without mentioning it - was Lis Tribe.
She is a Council Member of UK Publishers Association, which has called for the shut-down of Oak National Academy, a UK online classroom!
Also, in recent news, Wiley had withdrawn free access to 1300 e-books for students, then faced so much public backlash, that they postponed the withdrawal to June 2023.
The event was so significant that it became part of the Internet Archive's briefs conclusion in its lawsuit against Publishers, but apparently not enough for it to be mentioned in PW's article.
Several organizations are now pushing to get the e-books permanently reinstated.
I just thought you might want to know it. "Embraces" might seem to have positive meaning here, it doesn't.
#WhatAboutTheChildren #radlitnews
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38 followers · 397 posts · Server todon.eu""left-wing"", ""independent"", ""radical""
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38 followers · 397 posts · Server todon.euThanks to @pivic for first sharing the news!
As expected, and the article doesn't mention it but according to a union representative, HC "instructed non-union employees not to mention the strike". (see second link)
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38 followers · 397 posts · Server todon.euTwo libraries were defunded thanks to book ban campaigns and will face significant cuts or closure.
Almost all levy renewals or renewal increases for libraries passed.
Several major American cities voted in favor of municipal funding or bonds for library operations or construction.
New Mexico’s biennial GoBond for Libraries passed with over 62% support in Election Night returns and bringing in an added 10 million dollars to fund libraries.
Library construction projects saw mixed results.
Voters in Colorado created the nation’s newest library district by voting to change the Boulder Public Library from a city to a self-governing library.
At least 80% of library construction projects won.
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As unionized HarperCollins employees prepare to go on an indefinite strike tomorrow, a union representative said that the publisher has no plans to reopen negotiations with those employees, and instructed non-union employees not to mention the strike.
#RadLitNews (I think from now on, actual Rad Lit News will be on here - which makes more sense now that I think about it 😐)
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38 followers · 397 posts · Server todon.euYet none of the publisher's one-time or monthly pay increase percentage goes above the average inflation.
Especially, the price of necessity goods has gone higher, faster than other products, so in the end they're still losing purchasing power.
Hopefully, the strike at HarperCollins will inspire others!
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38 followers · 397 posts · Server todon.euThe newest report conducted by the American Booksellers Association and the consulting firm Civic Economics about the negative impact of Amazon on bricks-and-mortar retailers and local communities estimates that in 2021 the movement of dollars to Amazon and away from retailers displaced 136,000 shops occupying 1.1 billion square feet of traditional commercial space. The report further noted that while Amazon has added thousands of warehouse jobs, that number is only about half as many jobs as the 1.7 million retail jobs that were lost to Amazon’s expansion.
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38 followers · 397 posts · Server todon.euIt appears that both HarperCollins union members company and management are gearing up for the possibility of a prolonged walkout. The union has postponed a strike that was planned for today until Thursday, November 10. In October, HC union members overwhelmingly authorized a second strike following a one-day walkout in July. In supporting a new strike, the union said the second strike would be “open-ended,” suggesting that the walkout would be more than a one-day action.