@amitvarma It looks like Amazon has reached out to you but if you need further assistance Elliott Advocacy might be worth looking into. (The NYTimes used to have a consumer advocacy column called the Haggler which seems to have been discontinued a years ago)
https://t.co/58ZnieEIsw
@samanth_s in this sense the process is a great equalizer. Regardless of wealth or local lineage,we are all post-colonial subjects and they remind us of that status constantly.
@samanth_s I understand you're not asking for difficult individual VFS experiences from the applicants side, they are legion, but if interested, I had the most difficult experience I have ever had in 20 years of applying for Schengen visas, directly at the Belgian consulate in New York.
@samanth_s The VFS and the Schengen countries have a obvious profit-generating interest in keeping this visa regime alive. Even a 20-30 year travel record with no violations makes no difference to the credibility of the applicant.
@samanth_s They also questioned why I had been granted a longer visa by the French in the past and created many more unnecessary hurdles and kept my old passport with them. Happy to talk if useful to your story.
@samanth_s They asked for a letter from my employer approving remote work beyond the dates that I was traveling in Europe. They also asked for my American companion's pay stubs and letter from employer. Absolute overreach as Americans do not need short term visas. Total racist nightmare.
@samanth_s They made me return 3 times with more attestations and paperwork, I finally submitted a breakdown in hours of how much time I would spend in Belgium and Switzerland showing I would be longer in Belgium.
The NYS WARN Act was passed in Feb 2009. Companies with over 50 employees must give 90 days notice if laying off more than 25 people or 1/3rd of the workforce. Do you know of mass layoffs in architecture post-2009 that gave any warning? @arch_workers_u@Arch_Lobby
@shannonmattern "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
@DanielDenvir To End All Wars, Adam Hochschild.
It focuses on Great Britain and isn't comprehensive in the way you're asking, but interesting as a sort of history of dissenters to the war.