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May 1, 2023 at 7:55 AM

Climate Justice on the Ballot in El Paso

Climate Justice on the Ballot in El Paso     Crystal Moran , Eddie Wong , and Mike Siegel April 21, 2023Convergence A proposed El Paso City Charter amendment—put forward by grassroots organizers—would create green economic growth, investments in conservation and infr…

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May 1, 2023 at 7:35 AM

‘Chevalier’ Explores the Little-Known True Story of the Black Composer Who Dazzled French Society

‘Chevalier’ Explores the Little-Known True Story of the Black Composer Who Dazzled French Society     Brooke Obie April 26, 2023The Grio Kelvin Harrison Jr. shines as master violinist and champion fencer Joseph Bologne in a film that explores the trap of Black excell…

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May 1, 2023 at 7:20 AM

Defying PA Repression, Palestinian Teachers Lead Biggest Strike in Years

Defying PA Repression, Palestinian Teachers Lead Biggest Strike in Years     Basel Adra April 18, 2023Plus 972 Amid an economic crisis caused by Israeli policies and PA corruption, teachers are bringing schools and streets to a standstill until their demands are met.…

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May 1, 2023 at 6:50 AM

Does the Harvard Kennedy School Serve the People—Or Power?

Does the Harvard Kennedy School Serve the People—Or Power?     Michael Massing May 18, 2023The Nation The elite public policy and government school may have reversed course on Kenneth Roth, but its deep ties to Wall Street and Washington remain. An about-face:…

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May 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM

What Happens if There’s a Hollywood Writers Strike?

Portside Culture What Happens if There’s a Hollywood Writers Strike?     Alissa Wilkinson April 25, 2023Vox It’s been 15 years since the last WGA strike, and the stakes are far greater. WGA strikers during the 2007-08 strike. , David McNew/Getty Images …

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April 30, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The State and the Future of Socialism

The State and the Future of Socialism     Michael A. Lebowitz April 23, 2023Socialist Project Rather than expansion of the means of production or direction by the state, human beings must be at the centre of the new socialist society. , Michael A. Lebowitz …

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April 30, 2023 at 12:05 AM

U.S. Liquefied Gas Flooding Europe

U.S. Liquefied Gas Flooding Europe     Tim Donaghy April 27, 2023GreenPeace Who Profits From War: How Gas Corporations Capitalise on War in Ukraine. , Tim Aubry / Greenpeace   The oil and gas industry has moved quickly to take advantage of the disruptio…

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April 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Kaepernick To Fund Independent Autopsy for Atlanta Inmate Found Dead in Insect-Infested Cell

Kaepernick To Fund Independent Autopsy for Atlanta Inmate Found Dead in Insect-Infested Cell     Brett Wilkins April 21, 2023Common Dreams A record number of inmates are dying in Georgia's five largest county jails, and that Fulton County Jail has led the state in su…

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April 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Roxham Road and the Canadian Unconscious

Roxham Road and the Canadian Unconscious     Rinaldo Walcott April 26, 2023Canadian Dimension The closure of the border crossing is a living embodiment of Canada’s continued white supremacist and Eurocentric foundations Former Conservative Party leader Andrew …

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April 30, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Opinion: Trump’s Indictment Doesn’t Redeem Our Flawed Criminal Legal System

Opinion: Trump’s Indictment Doesn’t Redeem Our Flawed Criminal Legal System     Robert Gangi April 24, 2023City Limits “The harsh reality is that, despite the possibility that a rich and powerful man may now be in for his just desserts, our criminal legal system is d…

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April 29, 2023 at 1:12 AM

Partisans Had the Courage To Invent a New World

Partisans Had the Courage To Invent a New World     Luciana Castellina April 26, 2023Il Manifesto Global Can it be enough to denounce the evils of the past? I believe it’s not enough if we fail to rise up in protest against the fact that democracy -- in the name of w…

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April 29, 2023 at 12:45 AM

Private Equity Is Gutting America — And Getting Away With It

Private Equity Is Gutting America — And Getting Away With It     Brendan Ballou April 28, 2023The New York Times It’s an incentive system that encourages risky, even reckless behavior but, insulated from liability, they face little consequence if those plans fail. Th…

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April 29, 2023 at 12:10 AM

America’s Workplace Safety Crisis

America’s Workplace Safety Crisis     Terri Gerstein April 28, 2023The American Prospect Today is Worker's Memorial Day. Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough. An employee pulls a pallet jack a…

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April 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

The Presidential Campaign of Convict 9653

The Presidential Campaign of Convict 9653     Thomas Doherty April 18, 2023The Conversation In the election of 1920, Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, polled nearly a million votes without ever hitting the campaign trail. Debs was behind bar…

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April 29, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Weelaunee

Portside Culture Weelaunee     Dee Allen February 27, 2023The Seattle Star Eco poetry: California poet Dee Allen looks back and forward to the fight to save the South Atlanta forests. ,   Weelaunee By Dee Allen Traditional Muscogee/Tsalagi land, T…

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April 28, 2023 at 2:10 AM

Young Voters Will Transform Even the Reddest States

Young Voters Will Transform Even the Reddest States     Ed Kilgore April 21, 2023New York Magazine There’s a new demographic wave — a tsunami, really — forming in the not-so-distant future that could finally break the recent pattern of partisan gridlock. The youth co…

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April 28, 2023 at 2:00 AM

Half of N.Y.C. Households Can’t Afford To Live Here, Report Finds

Half of N.Y.C. Households Can’t Afford To Live Here, Report Finds     Eliza Shapiro April 25, 2023New York Times The study is the latest piece of evidence to demonstrate the depth of New York City’s affordability crisis, which is reshaping local demographics and cult…

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April 28, 2023 at 1:50 AM

Harry Belafonte: What Do We Have To Lose? Everything

Harry Belafonte: What Do We Have To Lose? Everything     Harry Belafonte November 7, 2016New York Times "What old men know is that everything can change. What old men know, too, is that all that is gained can be lost. Lost just as the liberation that the Civil War an…

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April 28, 2023 at 1:00 AM

DeSantis and Netanyahu: Shameless, Dangerous Anti-Democratic Brothers-in-Arms

DeSantis and Netanyahu: Shameless, Dangerous Anti-Democratic Brothers-in-Arms     Donna Nevel April 27, 2023Haaretz Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is doing acrobatics to outflank Trump as the most uncritically 'pro-Israel' GOP candidate. His brutal, repressive vision …

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April 28, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Tidbits – Apr 27, 2023 – Reader Comments: McCarthy’s MAGA Holds Country Hostage; Military Budget, Arms for Israel; Harry Belafonte, Social Justice Song List; May Day in New York; Ukraine What Next?; Fighting for Democracy in the Workplace

Tidbits – Apr 27, 2023 – Reader Comments: McCarthy’s MAGA Holds Country Hostage; Military Budget, Arms for Israel; Harry Belafonte, Social Justice Song List; May Day in New York; Ukraine What Next?; Fighting for Democracy in the Workplace     April 27, 2023xxxxxx Rea…

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April 27, 2023 at 5:45 AM

School Voucher Bills Seek To Defund and Privatize Public Schools

School Voucher Bills Seek To Defund and Privatize Public Schools     Nina Mast April 20, 2023Economic Policy Institute As momentum builds around efforts to divert public funds to private schools, lawmakers and advocates should recommit to opposing harmful voucher bil…

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April 27, 2023 at 5:25 AM

Not a Green Bone in Their White Bodies

Not a Green Bone in Their White Bodies     Stan Cox April 25, 2023Tom Dispatch How Ecofascists Are Fueling Racism and Deadly Violence , NOAA   It’s not often that conservative lobbyists beat the drum for increased environmental oversight and regulation. …

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April 27, 2023 at 5:05 AM

The Harry Belafonte Speech That Changed My Life

The Harry Belafonte Speech That Changed My Life     Charles M. Blow April 25, 2023The New York Times The reality seized me that I had been playing much too small as a writer, covering and commenting on society and its systems rather than truly challenging them. …

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April 27, 2023 at 4:50 AM

Progressive Young Voters to Biden: Energize Us and Win or Ignore Us and Lose

Progressive Young Voters to Biden: Energize Us and Win or Ignore Us and Lose     Kenny Stancil April 25, 2023Common Dreams "We need you to deliver the bold ideas that our generation cannot live without—stop the climate crisis, fight for the rights and dignity of immi…

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April 27, 2023 at 4:45 AM

Losing by Not Winning

Portside Culture Losing by Not Winning     Shehryar Fazli May 22, 2022Los Angeles Review of Books Reviewer Fazli examines this new History of the Democratic Party, written by a former editor of Dissent magazine. ,   What It Took to Win A History of…

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April 27, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – April 26, 2023

Global Left Midweek – April 26, 2023     April 26, 2023xxxxxx Spotlight on Cuba, Brazil under Lula, women in struggle 'No to war' and 'No to the killing of innocent people'. Protest in Arbaji, El Gezira, Sudan. Credit, Dabanga   Revolutionaries Respond t…

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April 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Biden Announces Re-Election Bid, Defying Trump and History

Biden Announces Re-Election Bid, Defying Trump and History     Peter Baker April 25, 2023The New York Times While the president once pitched himself as “a bridge” to a new generation of Democratic leaders, he has decided that he is not ready to turn the torch over ye…

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April 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

SpaceX Explosion Sparks Environmental Concerns After Coating Texas Community in Ash

SpaceX Explosion Sparks Environmental Concerns After Coating Texas Community in Ash     Olivia Rosane April 25, 2023Common Dreams "While we are looking to the stars, we should not readily sacrifice communities, habitat, and species," said a Center for Biological Dive…

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April 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Fantasies of Israel

Fantasies of Israel     Ilan Pappe April 19, 2023Sidecar The prediction that these divisions could undermine the Israeli state from within seems premature at this stage. But there is no doubt that they have exposed serious cracks in the Zionist edifice – ones that ma…

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April 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Harry Belafonte, Singer, Actor and Tireless Activist, Dies Aged 96

Harry Belafonte, Singer, Actor and Tireless Activist, Dies Aged 96     Ben Beaumont-Thomas April 25, 2023The Guardian Chart-topping calypso singer who supported US civil rights movement and African initiatives dies of congestive heart failure ‘Rebel spirit’ … …

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April 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Remembering Paul Robeson: ‘I Had No Alternative’

Portside Culture Remembering Paul Robeson: ‘I Had No Alternative’     Paul Von Blom April 7, 2023The Progressive 125 years after his birth, Paul Robeson, the civil rights titan, remains a role model for battling racism and fascism. The words written on his grav…

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April 26, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 25, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 25, 2023     April 25, 2023xxxxxx A violent end in a violent time? It's got the world wondering. , Lifeboat Foundation   90 Seconds to Midnight Community Stands With Ralph Yarl Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Cities? …

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April 25, 2023 at 12:35 AM

Amazon Delivery Drivers in California Join Teamsters

Amazon Delivery Drivers in California Join Teamsters     Dave Jamieson April 24, 2023HuffPost The Teamsters said Monday that a group of Amazon drivers and dispatchers in Southern California have joined the union and negotiated a tentative contract with their employer…

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April 25, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Sudan Conflict: Hemedti – The Warlord Who Built a Paramilitary Force More Powerful Than the State

Sudan Conflict: Hemedti – The Warlord Who Built a Paramilitary Force More Powerful Than the State     Alex De Waal April 17, 2023The Conversation Hemedti’s career is an object lesson in political entrepreneurship by a specialist in violence. His conduct and (as of no…

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April 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

55 Years On, We Still Need the Spirit of May 1968

55 Years On, We Still Need the Spirit of May 1968     Ken Livingstone April 21, 2023Morning Star Although May ’68 itself failed to deliver a revolution, the lessons of the era – alliance-building by including liberation struggles outside of socialism – shaped my late…

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April 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Court Dismissed I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Lawsuit Over Spray’s Calorie Content

Portside Culture Court Dismissed I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Lawsuit Over Spray’s Calorie Content     Bob Egelko April 18, 2023San Francisco Chronicle The Court ruled that the manufacturer can keep classifying the product as a spray, not a butter or margari…

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April 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM

“Girls, We Can’t Lose!”: In 1930s St Louis, Black Women Workers Went on Strike and Won

“Girls, We Can’t Lose!”: In 1930s St Louis, Black Women Workers Went on Strike and Won     Devin Thomas O’shea April 18, 2023Jacobin During the Great Depression, St Louis’s Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. Black workers, mostly women, worked harder and made …

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April 24, 2023 at 7:43 PM

Friday Nite Videos | April 21, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | April 21, 2023     April 21, 2023xxxxxx AOC & Jordan Klepper on Trump, Clarence Thomas & Ending Violence. Here's Why Writers Are Ready to Shut Hollywood Down. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. | Movie. Paul Robeson Testifying Before H…

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April 24, 2023 at 6:50 AM

Sunday Science: Famous ‘Homunculus’ Brain Map Redrawn To Include Complex Movements

Sunday Science: Famous ‘Homunculus’ Brain Map Redrawn To Include Complex Movements     Max Kozlov April 19, 2023Nature Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury. The …

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April 24, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Spurring an Endless Arms Race

Spurring an Endless Arms Race     Michael Klare April 16, 2023Tom Dispatch The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars ,   Why is the Pentagon budget so high? On March 13th, the Biden administration unveiled its $842 billion military budget request for 2024,…

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April 24, 2023 at 4:55 AM

The Post-Dobbs Abortion Fight

The Post-Dobbs Abortion Fight     Ilyse Hogue March 15, 2023Democracy: A Journal of Ideas Why we need to learn that when we defend abortion rights, we’re defending democracy. July 4th Protest in front of the US Supreme Court., Victoria Pickering   On Jun…

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April 24, 2023 at 4:30 AM

The Democrats’ Appalling Failure To Confront the Rogue, Right-Wing Supreme Court

The Democrats’ Appalling Failure To Confront the Rogue, Right-Wing Supreme Court     Simon Lazarus April 21, 2023The New Republic The party needs to take its cue from America’s most celebrated leaders, who had no fear of talking directly to the public about the Const…

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April 24, 2023 at 3:45 AM

How Much Power Should the Courts Have?

How Much Power Should the Courts Have?     Emily Bazelon April 14, 2023New York Times In Israel, the United States and other democracies, bitter battles are being waged over the same question. , Illustration by Anson Chan   The Israeli Supreme Court last…

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April 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM

‘Dead Ringers’ Skewers the Grim Realties of Gynecological Care

Portside Culture ‘Dead Ringers’ Skewers the Grim Realties of Gynecological Care     Audra Heinrichs April 20, 2023Jezebel Dead Ringers, which premieres on Friday, is subversive, sometimes shockingly gory, and a needful skewering of the U.S. medical system, the …

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April 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Why the Giant Rocket Failed

Why the Giant Rocket Failed     Mark Sumner April 22, 2023Daily Kos Why it's Elon Musk's fault SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. April 20, 2023, AFP via Getty Images   On Thursday, Space…

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April 23, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How China Can Prevent Climate Catastrophe? Moving Humanity Toward Global Ecological Civilization

How China Can Prevent Climate Catastrophe? Moving Humanity Toward Global Ecological Civilization     David Schwartzman April 11, 2023MR OnLine Can China emerge to fulfill its claim that its goal is a new ecological civilization, that is, become the global leader open…

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April 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Local Communities Are on the Frontlines of Climate Justice

Local Communities Are on the Frontlines of Climate Justice     Alvaro Sanchez and Olatunji Oboi Reed April 20, 2023The Progressive Communities of color are not just victims of climate change—they are powerful leaders in the fight against it. ,   While c…

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April 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts Historically

Social Turmoil Has Increased Witch Hunts Historically     Silvia Federici, Alice Markham-Cantor April 22, 2023Scientific American Vicious attacks on women often accompany economic upheavals A family member holds a portrait of Iquo Edet Eyo, who was killed in N…

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April 23, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Everyone in a Nursing Home Deserves a Single Room

Everyone in a Nursing Home Deserves a Single Room     Margaret Morganroth Gullette April 15, 2023Boston Globe The government should require that owners give residents private space — or it should take over the facilities and replace them with small homes. Tran…

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April 22, 2023 at 1:15 AM

Hens in the Fox House: The Vote Machine Hack Myth

Hens in the Fox House: The Vote Machine Hack Myth     Greg Palast April 19, 2023gregpalast.com Yes, elections are stolen, but not like that. To my good progressive colleagues who’ve been suckered into the “hacker” fantasy, I suggest it’s time to crawl out of the Fox …

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