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M23 Combatants Decline Invitation to Engage in Peace Discussions with DR Congo Leader #CentralAfrica #EastAfrica #Africa #business #CentralAfrica #Combatants #conflict #Congo #CongoKinshasa #currentevents #decline #discussions #EASTAFRICA #Economy #engage #invitation #leader #LegalandJudicialAffairs #M23 #news #peace #PeaceandSecurity #politics #Rwanda #sports #trade #travel
https://tinyurl.com/2358w76v
@MixMistressAlice@todon.euAlthough I live a reclusive, ivory tower type of life, valuing trust and intimacy, I think I would be upset if anyone I really fancy denied an invitation to show them downtown; even more so based on fears that I would 'misbehave.'
#life #reflection #reclusiveness #intimacy #trust #invitation #downtown
https://www.europesays.com/1897102/ Retirement Can Be Lonely. Here’s How I Started Making Friends. #america #business #event #guest #invitation #lunch #Man #need #one #people #rejection #retirement #stereotype #time #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #wife #woman #year
Orrin Onken had always relied on his wife to organize…
EUROPE SAYSWir laden dich ein
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Trump can't read. | @destiny
Keir Starmer gives Donald Trump state visit invitation from the King https://www.inbella.com/927192/keir-starmer-gives-donald-trump-state-visit-invitation-from-the-king/ #Donald #Events&Appearances #Gossip #invitation #keir #king #News #Royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalGossip #Royals #RoyalsGossip #Starmer #State #TRUMP #visit
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nge? Wrk Tgether
@freeschool@qoto.orgTABLE OF CONTENTS & CHAPTERS
(Interesting list)
Chapter 1: Beyond Alarm, Toward Action
Chapter 2: Refusing to Abandon
Chapter 3: Care is Fundamental
Chapter 4: Think Like a Geographer
Chapter 5: Rejecting #Cynicism
Chapter 6: ‘Violence’ in Social Movements
Chapter 7: Don’t Pedestal Organizers
Chapter 8: Hope and Grief Can Co-exist
Chapter 9: Organizing Isn’t Matchmaking
Chapter 10: Avoiding #Burnout
Conclusion: #Relationships, #Reciprocity, and #Struggle
Conclusion: Beyond #Doom, Toward #Collective Action
Afterword: #Movements Make Life
Closing #Invitation
Reflecting on #Ideas
Self-Reflection for Organizers
Movement #Assessment
Resources
Direct Actions
Activist/Organizer Wisdom
Other Useful Resources
====================
Source:
Let This Radicalize You - Organizing and the Revolution of #Reciprocal #Care
#Book + #Workbook about #Care #Revolution #Climate #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #Activism #DirectAction
#PDF of Workbook: 97Mb
Download Page
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Perhaps the most notorious byproduct of Wall Street’s private equity boom is the #leveraged #buyout,
a revolutionary and controversial investment method that Stephen #Schwarzman and #Peterson helped pioneer at #Blackstone.
For the most part, leveraged buyouts follow a predictable pattern:
A private equity firm buys a company, implements managerial changes designed to increase efficiency and then sells the company at a handsome profit.
But these transactions have drawn scrutiny from Wall Street watchdog groups,
because in most cases, the private equity firm funds its buyout using a large amount of 
money borrowed by the company being purchased.
Thus, when it resells the company a few years later, 
the firm often profits greatly beyond its initial investment, while the company is left to pay off the debt created by the original buyout.
“It’s all about trying to buy and sell within three to four years,” said Josh Kosman, a financial reporter for the New York Post,
who is the author of “The Buyout of America: How Private Equity is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy.”
“You try to jack up the profits quickly often by cuts in different areas, and then you try to get out and resell it or bring it public.”
According to Kosman, private equity buyouts often lead to layoffs or other cost-cutting measures that actively harm workers.
“Companies who need to pay money back end up not spending enough on research and development, fire more people than their peers, and often they fall behind their peers,” Kosman said.
A case study of Blackstone’s method is the firm’s 2006 investment in the travel reservations business Travelport,
says Celia Weaver, research and policy director at New York Communities for Change, a social and economic justice nonprofit.
Blackstone spent $4.1 billion on the acquisition, and over the next year, Travelport laid off nearly 850 employees, about 10 percent of its total workforce.
A story in The Wall Street Journal documented the human cost of those cuts: lost health insurance, unemployment, workers forced to sell their homes or postpone plans to start a family.
“Travelport took on a lot of debt, which is common in private equity,” Weaver said.
“They will overleverage any asset because their model is to only be in the deal for a short period of time.”
Private equity investment is “inherently predatory,” Weaver said.
But defenders of private equity argue that investment by firms like Blackstone enables struggling companies to regain their footing,
leading to long-term job growth.
School of Management professor Andrew Metrick ’89 GRD ’89 described private equity investors as “radical surgeons”:
The treatment is necessary, even if sometimes a body part must be amputated, or the patient dies.
“I’m relatively certain that if you add up the ledger for contributing to society from Stephen Schwarzman, it’s heavily in the positive standpoint,” Metrick said.
“But you know, he’s broken a lot more eggs to make these omelets than most people do.”
Since the 1980s, Blackstone has evolved significantly, moving beyond traditional buyouts and expanding its reach outside the United States.
After the foreclosure crisis in the late 2000s, the firm became a major player in the real estate business, buying houses through a subsidiary group called #Invitation #Homes.
Indeed, in 2015, Blackstone became the largest owner of real estate in the world.
Claire Parker, a spokeswoman for Invitation Homes, said the company spends an average of $25,000 renovating houses, which is required to meet a 250-point checklist before move-in.
“Invitation Homes brings value to the 120,000 residents we serve by providing access to high quality,
well-maintained homes in close proximity to the neighborhoods and schools they value,” Parker said.
But according to Weaver, Invitation Homes has a track record of poor management.
In 2014, a family sued the company for failing to make repairs to a three-bedroom rental house infested with mold and cockroaches.
“There’s a huge gap between what private equity expects and what the market will deliver, if your goal is stable, long-term housing,” Weaver said.
“No matter what, Blackstone is going to make its profit.”
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/04/07/profit-at-any-cost/
On Feb. 13, 2007, just months before the international…
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@Susan_Larson_TN@mastodon.online'A #vibe I’m feeling': Here's what #people are #saying about #VicePresident #KamalaHarris
Earlier this month, longtime #Republican #LaTrellBell took up a #friend’s #invitation to attend a #HarrisWalz #rally in his #hometown of #Detroit. Now he's going to #vote for Kamala Harris.
#Polls suggest millions of #Americans are changing their presidential #voting plans with Harris currently topping the #Democratic #ticket.
As momentum continues to build for Kamala Harris' presidential…
www.usatoday.comI summon all #scientists . Let's discuss why the majority of living things on Earth have two nostrils located on the face exactly at the same spot.
#nature #natural #science #scientist #biology #medicine #physiology #anatomy #life #thinking #thoughts #philosophy #help #edu #education #carlsagan #wakeup #think #invite #Invitation #discussion #truth #religion #mythology #biologist #genetics #molecule #dna #cell #face #animal #kingdom #species #earth #future #new #way #money #wallstreet #taylorswift #cardib #neildegrasstyson #president #tsar #ruler #habit #scrutiny #investigation #alien #beyonce #elonmask #people #live #nose
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Noch ein ding besonders für die alle Deutschsprachige Leute.
Wenn wir uns nicht bekannt sind, verwenden Sie bitte in Ihren Kontakt mit mir die traditionelle, gute Form von "Sie".
Dafür werde ich sehr dankbar sein.
Ich bin altmodisch in diesem Thema, ich bin diese moderne "Duzen" Sache nicht gewohnt und es geht mir echt stark auf die nerven. Vor allem, wenn es von Leuten gemacht wird, die viel jünger sind als ich.
Es tut mir leid, aber so ist es und ich werde es nicht ändern.
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Bluesky 開放一般註冊了
Bluesky 宣佈開放一般註冊了，不再需要邀請碼：「Join Bluesky Today (Bye, Invites!)」。
想玩的先前應該都拿到邀請註冊過了，現在不知道會有什麼新的玩意出來。
對玩技術的人來說，就只是另外一個 protocol，而且目前沒什麼分散性；對一般人來說，就只是另外一個社群... 重點還是在怎麼經營吸引人。
#Computer #Murmuring #Network #Service #Social #bluesky #invitation #network #open #social
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