Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

July, 2018

Anarchy in the UK - Existential Comics
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The Threat of Same-Sex Marriage | America Magazine

I like this argument, but imagine thinking it is an argument in favor of marriage.

Forced Labor in Malaysia's Electronics Industry - The Atlantic
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'In 2014, the watchdog organization Verité released a study on migrant workers in the electronics sector in Malaysia. Among a sample of more than 400 foreign electronics workers, at least 32 percent were, by Verité’s definition, forced to work against their will. According to the report, “these results suggest that forced labor is present in the Malaysian electronics industry in more than isolated incidents, and can indeed be characterized as widespread.”'

The Verite's report: http://verite.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/VeriteForcedLaborMalaysianElectronics2014.pdf

The “Masses” in Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism by Peter Baehr [PDF]
Is Union Station, "Denver's Living Room," Really Open to All? by Chris Walker
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An investigation into the practices of private security at Denver's Union Station and 16th Street Mall after four guards beat a homeless man in the bathroom and then tried to cover it up.

An audio version read by the journalist is available: https://soundcloud.com/user-11498782/on-guard

Disobeying to transform the world: A conversation with Enric Durán - Waging Nonviolence
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Duran successfully defrauded several Spanish banks of around 500,000 Euros by taking out loans and not paying them back.