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It Could Happen Here Weekly 253
· 3 h 52 min
Episode It Could Happen Here Weekly 253
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file:
• The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement • How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies • How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon • Attacking Palestinian Health • Executive Disorder: French Student Protests, Flavio Bolsonaro, ‘Third Country’ Deportations
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Sources/Links:
The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement
• https://www.endnotes.org.uk/issues/issue-4/endnotes-a-history-of-separation-preface • https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/maurice-brinton-the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control • https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm • https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs • https://www.marxists.org/portugues/hughes/1946/mes/90.htm
How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies
• BerkShares Program https://berkshares.org/ • Bob Dunning's Newsletter: https://www.thewaryone.com/ • https://centerforneweconomics.org/people/peter-larochelle/ • https://centerforneweconomics.org • https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/local-currencies-in-the-21st-century-understanding-money-building-local-economies-renewing-community/ • https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/alternativecurrency • https://www.collaborativefinance.org/mutual-credit/local-currency/ • https://sustainableandjust.org/initiatives/our-economy/alternative-economies/alternative-currencies/ • https://www.theselc.org/california-community-currencies-act • https://reasonstobecheerful.world/towns-invent-community-currencies/ • https://www.paulglover.org/hours.html • https://www.paulglover.org/hourcurrency.html • https://www.paulglover.org/atwood.html • https://localwiki.org/davis/Davis_Dollars • https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/series/history/myrtlewood-money-north-bend-oregon-great-depression/ • https://www.davisenterprise.com/users/profile/bob%20dunning/
How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon
• https://act.socialists.nyc/dpa-letter • https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-to-pass-the-delivery-protection-act-3 • https://www.instagram.com/nycdsa/ • https://www.instagram.com/nycdsalabor/ • https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/Delivery-Workers.page • https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/08/mayor-mamdani-backs--delivery-protection-act--to-rein-in-amazon- • https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mayor-mamdani-wins-record--131-5-million-from-doordash-for-deliv • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-02/amazon-trump-settlement-win-showed-just-how-tough-delivery-drivers-have-it • https://hearinghearings.nyc/hearings/committee-on-consumer-and-worker-protection-requiring-the-licensing-of-last-mile-facilities/ • https://teamster.org/2026/08/amazon-teamsters-and-allies-picket-city-hall-for-the-delivery-protection-act/ • https://teamster.org/2025/09/amazon-teamsters-rally-after-attack-on-workers-in-queens/ • https://teamster.org/2026/08/teamsters-allies-release-report-on-amazon-violations-of-new-york-warn-act/ • https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/10424UPSNATIONALMASTERFINAL.pdf • https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/fast-shipping-slow-justice-traffic-worker-and-climate-hazards-in-last-mile-delivery/ • https://www.staffingindustry.com/news/global-daily-news/nycs-delivery-protection-act-would-make-last-mile-delivery-workers-employees • https://www.wsj.com/business/new-jersey-sues-amazon-alleging-delivery-network-illegally-suppresses-wages-f6d6faa7 • https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/policy-news-views/amazon-testimony-delivery-protection-act-new-york-city…
Links in the notes 20
- https://www.endnotes.org.uk/issues/issue-4/endnotes-a-history-of-separation-preface
- https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/maurice-brinton-the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control
- https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm
- https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
- https://www.marxists.org/portugues/hughes/1946/mes/90.htm
- https://berkshares.org/
- https://www.thewaryone.com/
- https://centerforneweconomics.org/people/peter-larochelle/
- https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/local-currencies-in-the-21st-century-understanding-money-building-local-economies-renewing-community/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/alternative-currency
- https://www.collaborativefinance.org/mutual-credit/local-currency/
- https://sustainableandjust.org/initiatives/our-economy/alternative-economies/alternative-currencies/
- https://www.theselc.org/california-community-currencies-act
- https://reasonstobecheerful.world/towns-invent-community-currencies/
- https://www.paulglover.org/hours.html
- https://www.paulglover.org/hourcurrency.html
- https://www.paulglover.org/atwood.html
- https://localwiki.org/davis/Davis_Dollars
- https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/series/history/myrtlewood-money-north-bend-oregon-great-depression/
Transcript
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