politics

Political figures, histories, and current events in the whole scope of modern and past politics. Work place politics.

Medium is Controlling its Coronavirus Narrative
Just like we have Twitter, Facebook, Quora, Stack Exchange, and so on, I'm hoping that the writing community will have a number of platforms on which to write, including Vocal, publish0x, and Medium. I had a lot of hope for Medium in particular, and found it before Vocal. However, more and more I am finding their practices revolting, and perhaps nowhere are their nepotistic and destructive practices more obvious than with their treatment of the coronavirus scare.
By Daniel Goldman6 years ago in Journal
The Ending is Always Subjective
I’ve had a lot of jobs in my time, 14 and 9 months is probably not the most ideal time to start a job. On one hand it creates independence, and gives you the financial freedom to waste your money on whatever you want. Whether it be drugs, general consumerism or the massive phone bills from all the data you were using. On the other hand, it gets you used to the idea that your money is all your own to spend as you please. This makes it quite difficult later on when you have genuine expenses related to keeping yourself fed, clothed and sheltered. It creates genuine resentment over having to pay for things like toilet paper when you have spent 10 blissful years spending your money on drugs and concert tickets while someone else took financial responsibility for the boring stuff.
By Brendon6 years ago in Journal
Why Australia needs better Government
Australia is burning and who’s fault is it, our government! The greens refused to back burn Scott morison our Prime Minister is in Hawaii and gives money to NASA for Mars but when our country is burning and dying and our koalas and becoming extincted and men and women are leaving there loved ones to fight our fighters in the holiday season he says they want to be out there so they won’t be paid news flash Scott no they don’t it’s the new year the holidays they want to be with there families not cleaning up after your mistake pay them for helping and not running away to Australia
By Krystal Hilda6 years ago in Journal
In the Court of Public Opinion
Ibanga Isine, and I first crossed each other's paths while I volunteered for a United Nations Association. The task of email travelling before I secured a meeting with the multi-award-winning journalist and human rights activist became insignificant detail during our first conversation. We talked about the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping that dominated the international media at the time and the state of politics in Nigeria, amongst other things. Through our talks, I quickly understood the responsibility to tell a true and right story and the irresponsibility of reckless words.
By Bridgett Leslie6 years ago in Journal
10 Employment Laws Every Person Needs to Know
Back when I was 26, I worked for a person who was a total pig. He made a point of telling me that I would not be able to get a raise unless I lost weight... for an office job. He would regularly berate women for being not "hot enough" and make seriously derogatory remarks towards anyone who was female. To him, women and non-binary individuals like myself weren't people; they were accessories that propped up his fragile ego.
By Cato Conroy7 years ago in Journal
Impact of Global Issues on Employment Law
Globalization is a recent phenomenon where business is no longer restricted to the borders of one nation, but now the entire world. As the world financial markets and businesses become more integrated, there is more of a need for uniformity in the international system. With growing business integration, there are many issues of employment law that arises form continued globalization.
By Lee Davis7 years ago in Journal
The Working Poor
It is almost like we have forgotten what it is like to ask for basic rights. When I say this, I think of the push back I am receiving for standing up to my employer about some definitively dodgy and perhaps even borderline illegal behaviors. The push back comes in many forms. Other co-workers worried about their paychecks. Various people who insist it is better to just "find another job" and not stand up for what is right.
By Kelly Galvez7 years ago in Journal
Pulling Rank: Best Ways That Capitalism Has Shaped the Twenty-First Century Listed from a Trilli’ to Young Money
The word capitalism may produce in an individual’s mind various feelings, emotions, and even superstitions. But when it comes down to a social system of justice, only thought can prevail. Capitalism is the way that individuals can trade with one another in peace. It is the social system that says the lowest beggar can change their life by making sage decisions and becoming a beacon of business. It says that the homemaker can come up with a household appliance and generate a fortune from scratch. Over the past nearly three centuries, capitalism has been maligned, denigrated, and rejected. All the while, it has elevated and propelled countless people from all classes to rise up from modest beginnings to greater planes of existence. Even through such animus towards the idea, capitalism has prevailed as an iconic statement of free markets. While laissez faire capitalism has never been seen on the face of the Earth, the most moral nation in history, the United States of America, has displayed the most affinity towards capitalism. In other places around the globe such as Hong Kong, some elements of freedom have taken hold and produced a magnificent region replete with skyscrapers and other symbols of capitalism. Every color, race, and creed has benefitted from the idea of producing, making, profiting. Well over a billion people have risen out of poverty in the last thirty years. This is all due to the power of free markets.
By Skyler Saunders7 years ago in Journal
Why GDPR Is Good for Your Mental Wellbeing
Over the past few weeks, I have been getting a stream of emails into my inbox with various themed titles. From a gentle “Hello Verity, just a friendly reminder” to a slightly desperate “We don’t want to lose you“ and the downright aggressive “Are you in or out?”
By Verity Brown8 years ago in Journal
Running Government Like a Business
Let me illustrate…No, fuck that. Let me ILLUMINATE my point. Once upon a time, I was working in an all-night gas-and-go. Which I won't name, it was a chain, as opposed to some mom and pop operation and I'll leave it at that. For the purposes of confounding lawyers, I shall call this all-night gas-and-go chain, Skidmark America, or S.A. for short.
By Pete Sears8 years ago in Journal
Time to Own Shit
I told y'all why racist systems are still prevalent in this country and every country. And I laid out for y'all why you (black people...the African diaspora) should gain economic and political currency in this country. Be patient, BE HUMBLE, be smart, don't quit, and it'll work.
By Dre Joseph9 years ago in Journal
Production, Reproduction, and Feminism
Studies in feminist theory at Indiana University make a specific effort to discuss issues relevant to people around the world. The larger critique, which is incredibly appropriate, is that mainstream feminist and gender studies in the United States focuses only on the plight of American women—many of whom live with much more privilege than the majority of the world. To balance this, IU's Department of Gender Studies requires majors and minors to take at least one course with non-Western emphasis.
By Markie M9 years ago in Journal