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Alabama warehouse workers prepare to face down Amazon in union vote

The Verge

An Amazon warehouse in Alabama could become the first to unionize in the US For the next seven weeks, employees at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will vote on whether to become the first of the company’s US employees to unionize. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ida is expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast near the Alabama/Florida border late Monday or early Tuesday. We need volunteers to review the wiki section by section and make sure that there are resources collected for Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Most importantly, we need to update the wiki: [link].

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New Technology Developed to Amplify Community Voices for the Media

Non Profit Quarterly

The Local Voices Network (LVN), developed by the nonprofit Cortico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab , is bringing people together to share their perspectives with each other and with a small electronic “digital hearth” that records their every word. Cortico’s “digital hearth”. July 8, 2019; Nieman Lab.

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Forerunner, Bezos back Arrived, a startup that lets you buy into single-family rentals for ‘as little as $100’

TechCrunch

Arrived acts as the asset manager and partners with property management companies to find renters and manage the local day-to-day rental operations. Those property management companies market the properties locally and Arrived “customizes the leasing criteria.” .

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Friends of Dallas Animal Services: Creating Limitless Possibilities for the Animals of Dallas

DipJar

Even the simplest of steps – like informing the public on what to do if someone finds a stray – have positively impacted Dallas Animal Services’s connection to the Dallas community. Other local businesses, too, have demonstrated their support for the missions of both Dallas Animal Services and the FODAS.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. Elsewhere engages artists in residence who reinterpret elements of the thrift store into new works, which are then shared with the public. Waffle Shop (Pittsburgh, PA).

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What Twitter should copy from Tinder

The Verge

At the height of Amazon’s labor battle in Bessemer, Alabama, there was no way to distinguish between workers who actually represented Amazon, and those who were posting satirically. Twitter hadn’t anticipated the authenticity of rank-and-file workers would ever be up for scrutiny. In April, I wrote about the case of Amazon’s Twitter army.

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