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Sopo Japaridze

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Turn down the propaganda, turn up the Reimagining Soviet Georgia podcast @reimaginingg.

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In good news, our union won against a horrible clinic director today who yells, intimidates, and underpays nurses. The nurse was trying to organize a union for better working conditions with us and was terminated. Today she won.

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My favorite movers and shakers Sopo Japaridze and Marta Music teamed up for AWID feminist economic realities project, and here you can read about brilliant feminist labor union organizing done by Solidarity Network/სოლიდარობის ქსელი in 👇🏽

awid.org/feminist-union…

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Georgia's minimum wage is in the bottom percent of all countries in the world. This reality affects mostly women. Sopo Japaridze reflects on the pay gap, lack of minimum working standards and safety etc for of women workers in opendemocracy.net/en/odr/after-y…

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In this bizarre piece on Elon Musk loving Karl Marx, the only great thing is that Forbes admits Karl Marx is the undisputed brilliant thinker of all time. That's right, he is.

In this bizarre piece on Elon Musk loving Karl Marx, the only great thing is that Forbes admits Karl Marx is the undisputed brilliant thinker of all time. That's right, he is.
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My take on the counter-disinformation obsession: it started invading and poisoning the human rights/civil society/free press fields in the post-Soviet space about a decade ago. Invade how? Via money. Much of that sector depends on Western grants, often from governments. 1/6

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Only regulation the government tried to put in recently just discriminates against gay couples - at least on paper. This looks like it's motivated to please the conservative demographic, though the real victims are Georgian women who need more rights to protect themselves.

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Surrogacy and egg donation is lucrative business in Georgia and is mostly women-run. Poverty (with its lack of regulations, and social safety net) and lack of future prospects guarantee a pool of young women willing to risk their health and not demand much money or benefits back.

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There is no legal or emotional support for egg donors or surrogates. The stigma from society makes it that much harder to be open about issues. They can only turn to the same centers that exploit them or, at the very least, don't have their best interests at heart.

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