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Felix Nickel
@felixdigital.bsky.social
> interested in labour stuff
> podcast on work & economic democracy (2021-2024): www.democratizework.de

music & politics | bicycles, yay!

based in berlin
posts in DE / EN
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was im grunde passiert: durch den demographischen wandel entstehen überall lücken im arbeitsmarkt; die verhandlungsmacht der arbeitnehmer*innen gegenüber dem kapital steigt. insbesondere der jüngeren fordern bereits mehr lohn und 4tagewoche. die maßnahmen dienen dazu, die menschen zu disziplinieren
Es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass die Politik der CDU darauf ausgerichtet ist, Arbeitnehmerrechte und den Sozialstaat zu beschneiden, um den Niedriglohnsektor und prekäre Arbeitsverhältnisse auszuweiten.

Wer Angst vor Arbeitsplatzverlust und sozialem Abstieg hat, ist leichter erpressbar.
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Die EU-Lieferkettenrichtlinie wurde heute massiv abgeschwächt. Stellungnahme:
“Getrieben von Rechtsaußen opfert die Union zentrale Errungenschaften für den weltweiten Schutz von Menschenrechten. Die Auswirkungen werden die Betroffenen in den Lieferketten dt. Unternehmen knallhart zu spüren bekommen”
Presse - Initiative Lieferkettengesetz
Hier gibt es aktuelle Pressemeldungen zur Initiative Lieferkettengesetz.
lieferkettengesetz.de
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Safety incidents in Bangladesh last month put the spotlight on the fact that workers in supply chains of brands that refused to sign the International Accord put in place after the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse still continue to risk their lives at work.
Read more: cleanclothes.org/news/2025/tw...
Two Bangladeshi tragedies: why have some brands still not learned their lesson?
Two tragedies in the Bangladeshi garment and textile industry last month have brought back attention to the issue of safety of Bangladeshi garment workers. Massive improvements in the wake of the Rana...
cleanclothes.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Jüngste Episode meines Podcasts *Nullpunkt* jetzt online auf YouTube und Spotify. Mit Vanessa Thompson spreche ich darüber warum Polizeigewalt kritisieren nicht ausreicht - und was konkrete Alternativen wären.
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
“Wenn man für vermeintl. Sicherheit von jüd. Menschen bereit ist, […] Entmenschlichung i.d. Gesellschaft wieder anschwellen zu lassen, weil sich eine dt. Mehrheit wieder v. Fremden bedroht fühlt, dann ist der Konsens bloß die gleiche, alte, dt. Tradition & keine aufgeklärte, humanistische Grundlage”
Deborah Feldman: Deutschland, das Land ohne Immunsystem
Nach dem Terrorangriff vom 7. Oktober fühlt sich Deborah Feldman in Deutschland entfremdet und kritisiert die Instrumentalisierung jüdischer Menschen.
www.fr.de
November 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Good article about the realities of work and union organizing in India‘s gig economy.
Platform Work Unions Are Fighting Gender And Caste Bias, Clearing New Paths To Resistance
Gig workers are blending digital tools, community ties and the old spirit of unions to reimagine labour movements without gender and caste biases
behanbox.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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My law review article on the suppression of campus Palestine protests: “It is far easier to punish higher education institutions…and to disappear students from their dorm rooms…when campus protestors have been vilified over the course of more than a year.” scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...
August 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Egal, ob man die Bezahlkarte für politisch falsch oder verfassungsrechtlich bedenklich hält – sie basiert auf einer Lüge. Der Lüge, dass Flüchtlinge wegen des Geldes nach Deutschland kämen und nicht wegen Krieg, Krisen oder Vertreibung.
Rechtspopulismus als Mainstream
Im Sondierungspapier wird der bundesweite Einsatz der Bezahlkarte gefordert. Damit wird der national-autoritäre Umbau des Sozialstaats vorangetrieben. Denn bei der Bezahlkarte geht es letztlich darum,...
www.blaetter.de
August 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Sudanese journalist Yousra El Bagir has managed to get some footage out of Al Fashir in Darfur, Sudan. The RSF siege of the city has cut it off from food supply and medical assistance for months. One reason you hear very little about Sudan is that the RSF kills anyone who tries to document the war.
August 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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In what has been described as a “barrage of attacks on workers,” the U.S. Department of Labor under President Donald Trump is planning to overhaul dozens of rules that protect workers from exploitation and wage theft.
Trump Labor Department launches 'barrage of attacks' on workers
"They're showing their true colors as an anti-worker administration," Andrew Stettner of the Century Foundation told Common Dreams.
therealnews.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Sehr gute Einordnung zur rechten Mobilisierung rund um die gescheiterte Wahl von drei Verfassungsrichtern und die Kampagne gegen Richterin Brosius-Gersdorf.

Deutschlandfunk | Informationen am Morgen | Richterwahl-Eklat – Ein Erfolg für die Neue Rechte
Richterwahl-Eklat: Ein Erfolg der Neuen Rechten
Die gescheiterte Wahl von drei Verfassungsrichtern ist maßgeblich von rechten Netzwerken im Internet betrieben worden. Das zeigt eine aktuelle Analyse.
share.deutschlandradio.de
July 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
July 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Alle Vorwürfe gegenüber Spahn. Die ultimative Liste @fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
July 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
euobserver.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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@prienkarin.bsky.social - das freundliche Gesicht der sich nach rechts radikalisierenden CDU.
July 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Angesichts der Verlautbarung des Innenministers Dobrindt, dass er nicht ausschließe, Palantir in polizeilichen Bundesbehörden einzusetzen (die Entscheidung sei noch nicht gefallen hieß es im Juni), hier der Essay von @tlecaque.bsky.social und mir zu Palantir, ICE, White Supremacy und LotR
Fool of a Took: Palantir’s Fascism on Campus
This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller, the man behind the brutal escalation of ICE raids all over the country, owns between $100,00...
religiondispatches.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
www.npr.org
June 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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„Wilhelmshaven sei kein guter Ort für Schwarze Menschen.“

Jetzt ist ein 4-jähriges Kind tot.
Mutmaßlich ermordet bei einem rassistischen Brandanschlag

taz.de/Feuer-in-Wil...
Rassismus in Wilhelmshaven: Kind stirbt bei mutmaßlichem Brandanschlag
Bei einem Feuer in einem Mehrfamilienhaus in Wilhelmshaven starb ein vierjähriges Kind. Die Familie hatte zuvor rassistische Anfeindungen erlebt.
taz.de
June 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The biggest security threats: climate change, loss of biodiversity and social inequality. But tackling these requires radical shifts which would hurt big (extractive & exploitative) businesses, not a new arms race.
June 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"According to Nasir Mansoor (NTUF): 'KiK is selling superficial, ineffective measures as progress, while the affected workers in Pakistan continue to work in precarious conditions and we are hindered in our trade union work.' "
Organisations in our network, including @ecchr.bsky.social
& NTUF have filed a complaint against the German textile discounter KiK because of the sub-minimum wages and union busting in its supply chain. Read the press release in English here: www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...
Keine Arbeitsverträge, Löhne unter dem Existenzminimum und Unterdrückung gewerkschaftlicher Organisierung – unter solchen Bedingungen lässt Textildiscounter KiK in Pakistan produzieren. Dagegen reichen wir Beschwerde nach dem Lieferkettengesetz (LkSG) ein. www.ecchr.eu/pressemittei...
June 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“ ‘The task [of writing an essay] was executed, and you could say that it was efficient and convenient [due to the usage of GPT],’ [scientist] Kosmyna says. ‘But as we show in the paper, you basically didn’t integrate any of it into your memory networks.’ “
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide. The EU must SUSPEND the EU-Israel Association Agreement NOW.
EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs & @kajakallas.bsky.social - words are not enough 🧵
www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-must...
EU must suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement - Joint statement
The undersigned human rights and humanitarian organizations and trade unions urge the EU to ensure that the ongoing review of Israel’s compliance with article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement ...
www.amnesty.eu
June 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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In jede Innenstadt gehört ein Parkplatz von der Größe des Saarlands.
Alles andere ist Ideologie.
June 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Volker Türk‘s speech is worth a read. It’s a sobering account of the current crises of humanity all around the globe, but also a call not to loose hope. „There is an alternative. It lies in more human rights – not less.“
HC Türk updates Human Rights Council: "We need the strongest possible defence of international law and human rights”
Mr. President, Excellencies, distinguished delegates,As we meet, conflicts are spiraling.The military escalation between Israel and Iran is deeply worrying.I join all those appealing for de-escalation...
www.ohchr.org
June 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM