Say No to Water Privatization in the Infrastructure Bill

https://inthesetimes.com/article/open-letter-bipartisan-infrastructure-water-privatization

Water costs have soared in recent years as federal funding for water infrastructure has shrunk. Privatization is the last thing we need.

Afterword to Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program ~~ PETER LINEBAUGH

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/11/afterword-to-karl-marx-critique-of-the-gotha-program/

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The United States is not a Democracy. ~~. Ben Hiller

https://mronline.org/2020/11/04/119166/

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The United States boasts one of the most farcical democratic systems to have been invented. The country’s constitution is an eighteenth-century relic penned by merchants and slave owners, amendments to which can be blocked by as few as 13 states representing less than 4 percent of the population. Its Supreme Court, conservative by nature and stacked with tenured-for-life justices, provides an institutional anti-majoritarian check on the popular will.

PRIVATIZING THE COMMON GOOD: THE 21ST-CENTURY ENCLOSURES ARE HERE ~~ Ashley Dawson

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/privatizing-the-common-good-the-21st-century-enclosures-are-here

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Fossil capital has been granted immense power, producing life-giving heat and light but also plunging communities into darkness when they fail to return outsize profits. In 2011, DTE Energy, the investor-owned utility (IOU) that controls southeast Michigan’s energy infrastructure, repossessed one thousand streetlights from Highland Park, a city in the larger metropolis of Detroit. The city was left in the dark. Like many other Black-majority cities across Michigan, Highland Park was struggling at the time with capital flight and spiraling levels of austerity. Once home to Ford and Chrysler auto assembly plants and the well-paying jobs that they generated, Highland Park had seen its fortunes crash in the 1990s and the 2000s as the automakers shipped jobs abroad.