It Could Happen Here Weekly 253

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file:

• The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement
• How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies
• How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon 
• Attacking Palestinian Health
• Executive Disorder: French Student Protests, Flavio Bolsonaro, ‘Third Country’ Deportations

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Sources/Links:

The Decline and Fall of the International Workers Movement

• https://www.endnotes.org.uk/issues/issue-4/endnotes-a-history-of-separation-preface
• https://libcom.org/article/utopia-rules-technology-stupidity-and-secret-joys-bureaucracy-david-graeber
• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/maurice-brinton-the-bolsheviks-and-workers-control
• https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm
• https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
• https://www.marxists.org/portugues/hughes/1946/mes/90.htm

How To Print Your Own Money: The Case for Local Currencies

• BerkShares Program https://berkshares.org/
• Bob Dunning's Newsletter:  https://www.thewaryone.com/
• https://centerforneweconomics.org/people/peter-larochelle/
• https://centerforneweconomics.org
• https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/local-currencies-in-the-21st-century-understanding-money-building-local-economies-renewing-community/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/economics-econometrics-and-finance/alternativecurrency
• https://www.collaborativefinance.org/mutual-credit/local-currency/
• https://sustainableandjust.org/initiatives/our-economy/alternative-economies/alternative-currencies/
• https://www.theselc.org/california-community-currencies-act
• https://reasonstobecheerful.world/towns-invent-community-currencies/
• https://www.paulglover.org/hours.html
• https://www.paulglover.org/hourcurrency.html
• https://www.paulglover.org/atwood.html
• https://localwiki.org/davis/Davis_Dollars
• https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/series/history/myrtlewood-money-north-bend-oregon-great-depression/
• https://www.davisenterprise.com/users/profile/bob%20dunning/

How the ‘Delivery Protection Act’ Takes on Amazon 

• https://act.socialists.nyc/dpa-letter
• https://actionnetwork.org/events/rally-to-pass-the-delivery-protection-act-3
• https://www.instagram.com/nycdsa/
• https://www.instagram.com/nycdsalabor/ 
• https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/Delivery-Workers.page 
• https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/08/mayor-mamdani-backs--delivery-protection-act--to-rein-in-amazon-
• https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mayor-mamdani-wins-record--131-5-million-from-doordash-for-deliv
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-02/amazon-trump-settlement-win-showed-just-how-tough-delivery-drivers-have-it
• https://hearinghearings.nyc/hearings/committee-on-consumer-and-worker-protection-requiring-the-licensing-of-last-mile-facilities/ 
• https://teamster.org/2026/08/amazon-teamsters-and-allies-picket-city-hall-for-the-delivery-protection-act/
• https://teamster.org/2025/09/amazon-teamsters-rally-after-attack-on-workers-in-queens/
• https://teamster.org/2026/08/teamsters-allies-release-report-on-amazon-violations-of-new-york-warn-act/
• https://teamster.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/10424UPSNATIONALMASTERFINAL.pdf 
• https://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/fast-shipping-slow-justice-traffic-worker-and-climate-hazards-in-last-mile-delivery/ 
• https://www.staffingindustry.com/news/global-daily-news/nycs-delivery-protection-act-would-make-last-mile-delivery-workers-employees 
• https://www.wsj.com/business/new-jersey-sues-amazon-alleging-delivery-n