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I'm Schedule A, have a few letters of recommendation, have my resume, and I'm getting my Bachelor's degree in Communications in one month. I'm Latino or Latina (?) so I guess there's some DEI service I can utilize.

...I can't fucking wait. I need a job. I need income. I need a fucking car or transportation. I need to move from this place.

It's Joever, folks... for Makan, ig? Idk, I had to squeeze in the current lingo there. But as the Joe(ker) himself said, the four-letter word on everyone's minds is "Jobs! J-O-B-S!" (Yeah, I had to Segway to an old Biden gaffe there, you see).

Anyway, I'm not anti-work, like what they have on that subreddit... and I've never exactly been "neutral" on work either.

I'm "pro-work," if anything. I want a career. I want a job or role I can take pride in. I'm disabled, yes. I'm Autistic, among other things. But gosh darnit to frick (I know, I know, naughty and vulgar language), I need a job. Maybe a union job with LiUNA or whatever. But I need a job.

But for the life of me, I suck at job-hunting.

I'm not sure what details to give to you all, but I need pointers on how to land a job, maybe you can all tell me how you were able to do it (...assuming you did, mind you)?

I just need advice...

Bonkers.

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Milwaukee Shipped in 4,500 Cops From Across the US to Suppress Protest at RNC | Truthout

> ## Excerpt > Despite efforts to corral and silence them, determined protesters marched close enough to be heard by RNC attendees.

--- Contestations over the Republican National Committee’s efforts to foreclose avenues for lawful protest outside this week’s Republican National Convention (RNC) were already heated months before GOP delegates started booking their flights to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the convention.

So it was something of a victory for free speech that, after months of mobilizing and negotiations — and in the unexpectedly heightened state of policing following the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump — some protesters managed to demonstrate close enough to the RNC to be seen and heard by its attendees.

The path leading up to that point was filled with uncertainty over whether protest rights would be subordinated to GOP demands. Ahead of the RNC, downtown Milwaukee became a labyrinth of closed streets, vehicle checkpoints and even maritime restrictions on the Milwaukee River. For months, the GOP negotiated over the boundaries permitted for protest. It was clear that the Republican National Committee was trying to engineer a world in which delegates could attend the entire RNC without ever seeing a protester.

To the protesters, of course, this was unacceptable. In the months leading up to the convention, the Coalition to March on the RNC engaged in continuous negotiations with RNC authorities determined to sideline protests and reduce visibility. After the Secret Service established an initial boundary, the Republican Party demanded an even larger exclusion zone, a demand to which the Secret Service partially acceded. Less than a month before the convention, the City of Milwaukee consigned all protesters to a set march route that came, at its closest, four and half blocks from the Fiserv Forum where the nomination would be held. The ACLU of Wisconsin sued on behalf of the Coalition to March on the RNC, arguing that the protest restrictions unduly limited the exercise of free speech rights. A judge denied the injunction on the grounds that, because the mandated protest route applied to every group equally, no First Amendment concerns were implicated. Exercising remarkable deference to the Secret Service and City of Milwaukee protest restrictions, the judge wrote that the “Court will not second guess their judgements, particularly with respect to complex issues like the security needs for a large convention.”

In the aftermath of the ruling, the Coalition to March on the RNC reiterated a commitment to conducting a protest “within sight and sound” of the main venue. Just days before the convention, the coalition remained in negotiations with the city.

On July 12, Milwaukee city’s communications director Jeff Fleming commented to NBC News, “Mayor Cavalier Johnson has said the protesters want to be on the stage at Fiserv Forum, and the Republicans want the protesters to be on the moon.” In the end, the City of Milwaukee resisted the pressure to put protesters on the moon; on July 12, the coalition announced that it had come to a “handshake agreement” with the city about the march route.

> In addition to the Secret Service, as many as 4,500 officers from 85 police agencies from 24 states and Washington, D.C. were deployed to Milwaukee.

On July 15, the opening day of the convention, hundreds of protesters gathered in Red Arrow Park, a few blocks from the fora where delegates checked in for the major events of the afternoon, including Donald Trump’s official nomination as the Republican candidate for president. The protesters represented a broad spectrum of causes, from generic opposition to the GOP to comparatively narrower issues, with Palestine and abortion rights most heavily represented.

In defiance of the city’s distant designated “parade route,” the march proceeded along the coalition’s planned route, with the exception of nixing planned transit through Pere Marquette Park, which had been subsumed into the Secret Service’s credentialed perimeter. The protest chants reflected the diversity of causes under the coalition’s umbrella. As protesters surged over vehicle road closure barriers toward the Fiserv Forum, they chanted, “Up and down, Milwaukee is a union town,” as well as, “From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the U.S. war machine,” and “Donald Trump, KKK, no fascist USA.”

Chants in favor of reproductive rights, including “Keep abortion safe and legal” and “Abortion is a miracle” also featured prominently, particularly after coalition protesters encountered an anti-choice group (also outside the city-designated parade route) demanding that the GOP platform include a total ban on abortion.

As pushed for by the coalition, protesters chanted outside the Fiserv Forum, just outside the Secret Service credentialed perimeter, as a handful of RNC delegates went through the security checkpoint. Police assigned to the protest cleared a corridor, but otherwise refrained from interference with the protest. (Though, it’s worth noting, I observed police allowing a solitary protester with a large sign reading “Trump for Israel, Biden for Hamas” to block one of the entrances to the security checkpoint.)

While few police officers were assigned to the fringes of the protest crowd, police from across the country monitored the protest from every street corner. In addition to the Secret Service, as many as 4,500 officers from 85 police agencies from 24 states and Washington, D.C. were deployed to Milwaukee. To deal with lodging for that large number of incoming police, Milwaukee requested 4,000 dorm rooms at five local colleges and universities.

> A day after the protests, on July 16, five Columbus Police Department officers shot and killed Samuel Sharpe Jr., a Black man, over a mile from the RNC.

With the sheer number of agencies present, Milwaukee decided against holding other police departments to certain city policies, including those requiring body-worn cameras, a critical transparency measure aimed at providing the public with an unbiased record of incidents of misconduct. No additional training was required for RNC assignment, though the Milwaukee Police Department ordered incoming agencies to follow the Milwaukee Police Department’s standard operating procedures on use of force, crowd control and rules of engagement. Ahead of the RNC, the Milwaukee Police Department stated that it intended to assign outside officers to nonpublic facing positions, such as traffic control.

Police presence on the ground told another story. In addition to the Milwaukee Police Department officers on every corner (including seven on horseback), Truthout sighted five other agencies along the protest route. One agency, the Columbus Police Department, clearly took part in policing the protest, intermixing at the margins of the crowd and separating out the occasional pro-Trump provocateur wading into the left-wing coalition crowd.

Columbus Police Department officers wore vests reading “dialogue,” and one officer told Truthout that the unit received special First Amendment training. Later in the march, Milwaukee Police Department officers also entered the crowd. One officer, asked about the Milwaukee Police Department’s role in the crowd relative to that of the Columbus Police Department, said he “didn’t know.”

Along the march route, in addition to the presence of dozens of the estimated 1,600 Milwaukee Police Department officers assigned to the RNC, I observed a public-facing presence from the Columbus Police Department and four other agencies. Eighteen police officers on bikes from a police department in North Carolina circled the protest at one point along the route. Officers from the Carroll County, Maryland, sheriff’s office deployed at several points. One officer stated that, though their role was to conduct security at the RNC, they were also policing protest. Outside the Fiserv Forum and at vehicle security areas, nearly as many Indiana State Police officers as Secret Service staffed checkpoints and watched from street corners. Approximately 20 police officers from Green Bay, Wisconsin, watched over part of the protest. All this policing was backed up by an extensive surveillance apparatus. Ahead of the (in the end, mostly virtual) DNC in 2020, Milwaukee acquired new surveillance cameras, facial recognition technology and unmarked surveillance vans equipped with drone launch sites, equipment likely deployed for this year’s RNC security. And after the July 13 assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the Milwaukee Southeastern Wisconsin Threat Analysis Center, part of a network of fusion center intelligence agencies created after 9/11 with a focus on counterterrorism, issued a joint assessment with the FBI, Secret Service and Milwaukee Police Department based on intelligence gathered.

> Despite the Republican National Committee’s calls to exile protesters and the City of Milwaukee’s decision to banish protesters to a distant official “parade route,” determined protesters marched within a block of the Fiserv Forum.

With the host of agencies brought in to support RNC policing, Milwaukee created a volatile situation. A day after the protests, on July 16, five Columbus Police Department officers — the same department policing the protest — shot and killed Samuel Sharpe Jr., a Black man, over a mile from the RNC. The shooting was unrelated to any RNC security purpose, and validated fears from community members about the risks to community safety posed by the thousands of police officers inundating the city. “To be honest, this was the biggest fear that we had about the RNC,” Eva Welch, co-founder of the community organization Street Angels, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

At Monday’s march, protesters were able to demonstrate under close watch but without arrest or direct confrontation. But the events could easily have gone in another direction. Several of the agencies pulled in to assist with RNC security have track records of egregious misconduct in policing protest, as my colleagues at Defending Rights & Dissent documented in an analysis of lawsuit settlements for police misconduct during the 2020 George Floyd protests. Among the police departments deployed to the RNC were some of the worst offenders in 2020, including the Michigan State Patrol (which fired hard projectiles and tear gas at journalists), Charlotte Police Department (which trapped hundreds of protesters between buildings downtown and then showered them with pepper balls), Austin Police Department (which deployed bean bag rounds to horrific effects, shattering one protester’s jaw), and Denver Police Department (which flouted use-of-force policies to fire “less lethal” weapons at protesters’ heads, necks and groins).

Austin Police Department was forced to pay out over $20 million to protesters over their 2020 misconduct; Denver Police Department over $25 million. With protests expected in a highly securitized area, and with potentially volatile conflicts between left- and right-wing protesters possible, the City of Milwaukee should have exercised extreme caution in deciding which police departments were permitted on the ground in possible confrontation with protesters.

At the end of the day, Monday’s protest was a victory for First Amendment rights. Despite the Republican National Committee’s calls to exile protesters and the City of Milwaukee’s decision to banish protesters to a distant official “parade route,” determined protesters marched within a block of the Fiserv Forum, where they could be seen and heard by RNC attendees. Proximity matters, as does freedom from police repression. Protest’s purpose is to speak up and speak loud — and that’s exactly what protesters did outside the RNC.

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I have posted 94 music (including variations of a same song).

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The delegation from Qiushi Journal (China) and the Editorial Board of Communist Review Journal visit and work in Khanh Hoa Province.

TCCS - Implementing the Program of Visits, Work, and Professional Exchange in Vietnam

From June 5 to June 6, 2024, a delegation from Qiushi Journal, the theoretical organ of the Communist Party of China, led by Comrade Li Wenke, Deputy Chief Editor, along with leaders of various functional units of Qiushi Journal, visited, worked, and conducted practical research in Khanh Hoa Province. Accompanying them was a delegation from the Editorial Board of the Communist Review Journal, the political theoretical organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, led by Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Minh Tuan, Deputy Chief Editor, and Party Secretary.

On the morning of June 5, 2024, receiving and working with the delegation from Qiushi Journal and Communist Review Journal, on behalf of Khanh Hoa Province, were Comrades: Nguyen Khac Toan, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Tan Tuan, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; and representatives of several provincial departments, offices, and agencies. The visit and working session of the Qiushi Journal delegation were part of the international cooperation plan between Vietnam and China.

In his speech at the working session, Comrade Nguyen Khac Toan, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, expressed his pleasure at the increasingly strengthened traditional friendship and cooperative relationship between Vietnam and China in general, and between Khanh Hoa Province and various localities in China in particular. He highlighted the recent agreement between the high-level leaders of the two countries to elevate the bilateral relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and jointly build a Vietnam-China Community with a Shared Future.

Comrade Nguyen Khac Toan emphasized that Khanh Hoa Province always considers China an important partner in various areas of cooperation, especially in investment, trade, tourism, e-government construction, digital transformation, and sustainable development. He noted that in March 2024, a delegation from Khanh Hoa Province visited several localities in China and achieved many successful outcomes.

The Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee also expressed his belief that the visit and working session of the Qiushi Journal delegation in Khanh Hoa would further tighten the bilateral relationship between Vietnam and China. He hoped it would open up new cooperation opportunities in various fields such as economy, culture, tourism, science and technology between Khanh Hoa Province and the provinces and cities of China, as well as enhance the cooperative relationships between businesses from both countries.

In his speech at the working session, Comrade Nguyen Tan Tuan, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, stated that China is the main export market for Khanh Hoa Province, with key products such as lobster, durian, and bird's nest. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, China was also the largest international tourist market for the province, with over 2.5 million visitors annually (accounting for 70% of international tourists).

Comrade Nguyen Tan Tuan expressed his hope that through the working session, Qiushi Journal would help connect, promote, and advertise to attract more Chinese investors to Khanh Hoa Province and increase the number of Chinese tourists visiting the province.

During the session, the Qiushi Journal and Communist Review Journal delegation listened to detailed reports on the socio-economic development results of Khanh Hoa Province by representatives of the Department of Planning and Investment. They also heard an overview of the province's tourism strengths and its tourism cooperation with China by representatives of the Department of Tourism. Additionally, the head of the Provincial Party Committee’s Propaganda Department reported on the propaganda work and implementation of the Party's resolutions and directives in the socio-economic development of the province.

In his speech at the working session, Comrade Li Wenke, Deputy Chief Editor of Qiushi Journal, expressed his pleasure in visiting Khanh Hoa Province, learning about its cultural, political, and socio-economic achievements to apply practical insights into research on the path of innovation, socialist theory, and the path to socialism in Vietnam. He also saw this visit as an opportunity for Vietnamese and Chinese media agencies to exchange experiences in researching Party theories, contributing to the development of both Parties and countries.

Following that, representatives from Qiushi Journal introduced the current modernization path and strategy of China, the basic perspective on sustainable development based on the harmony between humans and nature (one of the five core perspectives of China's modernization strategy), and offered some suggestions for the sustainable development of Khanh Hoa Province in the coming period.

At the working session, on behalf of the Editorial Board of Communist Review Journal, Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Minh Tuan expressed his gratitude to the leaders of Khanh Hoa Province for their warm and thorough reception of the delegation. Comrade Pham Minh Tuan also highly appreciated the outcomes of the working session, expressing his belief that the working program of the Qiushi Journal and Communist Review Journal delegation in the province would further enhance the traditional friendship between Vietnam and China.

On the afternoon of June 5, 2024, within the framework of their visit to Khanh Hoa Province, the delegation from Qiushi Journal and Communist Review Journal, along with the Provincial Party Committee’s Propaganda Department and the Provincial Department of Foreign Affairs, visited and worked at the Sanvinest Bird's Nest Raw Material Processing Plant of Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Beverage Joint Stock Company (Sanvinest Khanh Hoa).

On June 6, 2024, the delegation visited the Agarwood Museum and the artistic construction Nha Hat Do (Bamboo Theater) in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province.

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Unless something more material like a whole continent turning anti-imperialist, if not socialist, and deciding collectively to nationalize the fruit and veg produce, and thus disrupts U.S's produce imports -

I don't think any internal problems in America would reach to a boiling point, as to end on a conclusive note

So what if it's a big deal to you, huh, America is the most armed-country, and has a lot of guns, yet no civil war(s) has occurred recently... it's just reactionary settler business as usual

Im America, nichts neues

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I like this article, it's not anything ground breaking, but I think the dude wrote some actually interesting insight.

Yes it's a gemini capsule, deal with it B)

Here's my preffered browser; Kristall

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"Why didn't you put in the URL thingy when creating the post?"

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Belgium is due to play Israel in the UEFA Nations League and apparently all cities in Belgium have refused to host the match at their stadiums due to the political circumstances. Article says the match might be played in Hungary.

France and Italy are also in this same group, I am curious to see if the same thing happens. The fact that Israel is in the European football association/competitions at all tells you all you need to know about the place.

Help me out.

I want to start a Lemmy with a focus on American and Indigenous history through a communist lens.

Among other things.

I'm willing to learn coding, tbf.

I'm putting our logo there next to the NATO Nazi flag to fuck with them

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They seem better than CPRF.

I know they're DSA who holding music festival, but how bad is it exactly? Now that they won, I'm curious what their stance is on the issues that will be discussed at CPs (Russia, China, North Korea, etc.)?

Deal with it Fat. :biden-troll:

Follow-up to last week's article about how feudalism is misrepresented in a certain game.

Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at home. In the honour-timed tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

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The official results are expected early Monday, with voter turnout on course to be the highest in decades.

Against all odds, the socdems beat the liberals and reduced a surging far-right to an embarrassing third place. French fascists are stomping on their berets and cartoonishly snapping baguettes in half.

Title says most of it. Although I could be wrong, it seems like the CPK is more successful than your average modern communist party.

What are the current prospects for revolution in Kenya like?

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The title translate to "the socialisms" (yes, plural), and the image tells you everything you need to know.