Category: Economic Equality

Angelina Jolie’s Breadwinner spotlights Afghan girls’ plight – BBC News

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The Breadwinner, made by Irish film-maker Nora Twomey, is an animation written, produced and directed by women, and adapted from the Canadian bestseller by author Deborah Ellis.
It features the voice of teenage Canadian actor Saara Chaudry as Parvana, an 11-year-old growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.
When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana disguises herself as a boy to save her mother and sisters from starvation, as women are unable to leave their house without a male relative.
Although it’s a story for children, it doesn’t disguise the details of life under the Taliban – including what happens when a woman is caught in the street without a burka.

via Angelina Jolie’s Breadwinner spotlights Afghan girls’ plight – BBC News

Strikes, Rallies and Protests: The Grassroots Fight for a Moral Economy

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One key functional difference between libertarians and neoliberals became apparent in 2008 with “Too Big to Fail Banks.” To the question of whether to let the banks fail, the libertarian says simply, “the government isn’t in the business of picking winners or losers, and so the government should let failing banks fail.”
On the contrary, the neoliberal says, “the government should save those banks in order to preserve stability and order.”
To the neoliberal, major banks are so essential that they are “too big to fail.” If those banks failed, they would bring entire global economic system down with them. And because neoliberals assume that the global economic system provides some sort of stability, the neoliberal finds it only reasonable that governments need to support those banks to promote as much stability as possible.

via Strikes, Rallies and Protests: The Grassroots Fight for a Moral Economy

The “Unintended” Consequences of Successful Employee Rights Litigation in California.

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This test lays out the three elements a business must meet in order to designate a worker as an Independent Contractor
A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of such work and in fact;
B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and
C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed for the hiring entity.

via The “Unintended” Consequences of Successful Employee Rights Litigation in California.