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May 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – April 30, 2024

Media Bits and Bytes – April 30, 2024     April 30, 2024 xxxxxx A student paper beats mainstream media to every punch , Haefeli, The New Yorker   Social Media for the Revolution Net Neutrality Finally Back Time Out for TikTok? Columbia U. …
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April 30, 2024 at 3:00 AM

This Week in People’s History, Apr 30–May 6

This Week in People’s History, Apr 30–May 6     xxxxxx Environmental Justice Wins (in 1997), School Integration Loses (1959), Wrist Slap for Torturers (2004), Pete Seeger’s Birthday (1919), No Place to Be Somebody Opens (1969), National Conference on Lynchin…
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April 30, 2024 at 1:40 AM

‘Do Not Bow’: Ex-Black Panther Praises Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters From Prison

‘Do Not Bow’: Ex-Black Panther Praises Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters From Prison     Nina Lakhani April 28, 2024 The Guardian Mumia Abu-Jamal tells New York City students they’re on the right side of history by deciding ‘not to be silent and to speak ou…
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April 30, 2024 at 1:00 AM

Single Dose of LSD Highly Effective at Treating Anxiety

Single Dose of LSD Highly Effective at Treating Anxiety     Colin Davidson April 25, 2024 The Conversation Over 80 years after its discovery, LSD may finally have found a medical application. A new study shows that it is highly effective at treating generali…
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April 30, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Chandler Davis: Dissent and Solidarity

Chandler Davis: Dissent and Solidarity     David Palumbo-Liu February 29, 2024 Against the Current Davis viewed his confrontation with HUAC and the University of Michigan as an opportunity. He willingly risked both his freedom and his career to expose and pe…
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April 30, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect

Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect     AFL-CIO April 25, 2024 the Stand AFL-CIO report finds that workers of color are dying on the job at increasingly higher rates. Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 15 years. Latino work…
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April 30, 2024 at 12:00 AM

What Are ‘Food Barons’— and Why Should You Care?

Portside Culture What Are ‘Food Barons’— and Why Should You Care?     Charlie Hope D’Anieri April 11, 2024 The Bittman Project The rise of the baron illustrates the failures of our approach to food policy better than a dry description of policies eve…
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April 29, 2024 at 3:25 AM

Netflix Shares Teaser for the New Adaptation of Gabriel García Marquez’s Masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude

Portside Culture Netflix Shares Teaser for the New Adaptation of Gabriel García Marquez’s Masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude     Mary Kate Carr April 17, 2024 AV Club Netflix's Spanish-language adaptation of One Hundred Years Of Solitude premi…
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April 29, 2024 at 1:30 AM

Sunday Science: Cicadas Are Emerging Now. How Do They Know When To Come Out?

Sunday Science: Cicadas Are Emerging Now. How Do They Know When To Come Out?     Carl Zimmer April 24, 2024 New York Times Scientists are making computer models to better understand how the mysterious insects emerge collectively after more than a decade unde…
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April 29, 2024 at 1:10 AM

The Particular Cruelty of Colonial Wars

The Particular Cruelty of Colonial Wars     Adam Hochschild April 23, 2024 The Atlantic A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power. , Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The At…
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April 29, 2024 at 12:50 AM

We Need an Exodus From Zionism

We Need an Exodus From Zionism     Naomi Klein April 24, 2024 The Guardian This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name ‘Too many of our people are worshipping a …
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April 29, 2024 at 12:30 AM

Abortion Rights After Dobbs: The State of the Struggle

Abortion Rights After Dobbs: The State of the Struggle     Johanna Brenner April 22, 2024 Against the Current The white, nationalist, evangelical conservative movement and the Republican Party targeted women's control over their reproductive life: they have …
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April 29, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Review: How I Learned What I Learned by Congo Square Theatre Is Wisdom on Being Black in America

Review: How I Learned What I Learned by Congo Square Theatre Is Wisdom on Being Black in America     Kathy D. Hey April 23, 2024 third coast review Congo Square Theatre presents How I Learned What I Learned by August Wilson. Harry Lennix is featured in this …
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April 28, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Freedom of Speech Ends Where True Power Begins

Freedom of Speech Ends Where True Power Begins     Jorge Majfud Common Dreams "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice," William Lloyd Garrison once said. "On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation."…
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April 28, 2024 at 12:05 AM

News of Mass Graves Isn’t Much News to US Outlets

News of Mass Graves Isn’t Much News to US Outlets     Xenia Gonikberg April 26, 2024 FAIR The discovery of these mass graves “horrified” UN rights chief Volker Turk. But it has yet to prompt so strong a reaction from several major US news outlets. …
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April 28, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The Ongoing Popular Responsibility of the Liberation

The Ongoing Popular Responsibility of the Liberation     Alessandro Portelli April 23, 2024 Il Manifesto Global April 25 -- marking the victory of the Resistance in Italy over Mussolini and German occupiers -- is the day we remember that the Constitution and…
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April 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Mass Surveillance

Mass Surveillance     Matthew Guariglia, Andrew Crocker, Cindy Cohn and Brendan Gilligan April 25, 2024 Scheer Post US Senate and Biden Admin Usher in a Two Year Expansion of Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance , Wikipedia   One week after i…
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April 28, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The Right Reads Gramsci: Project 2025 and Neo-Fascism

The Right Reads Gramsci: Project 2025 and Neo-Fascism     Jerry Harris April 24, 2024 Convergence “We need to understand fascism as a dynamic and revolutionary movement. It is not a conservative political force safely embedded in US institutional power. It h…
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April 27, 2024 at 3:45 AM

Friday Nite Videos | April 26, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | April 26, 2024     April 26, 2024 xxxxxx Supreme Court Update: It's as Bad as You Think. Rainbow Connection (Donald Trump Song Parody). The Next Worker Uprising: Daimler Truck & Thomas Built. Wait! I Said DE-Escalate! Can AI Help Us …
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April 27, 2024 at 2:05 AM

Manhattan Courtroom Destroys the Trump Mystique

Manhattan Courtroom Destroys the Trump Mystique     Symone D. Sanders-Townsend April 26, 2024 MSNBC Just as the Wizard of Oz tried desperately to distract Dorothy and her friends when he was revealed, Trump and his lawyers are trying hard to keep the public …
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April 27, 2024 at 1:50 AM

Arizona Election Interference Indictment – Conspicuous Absences

Arizona Election Interference Indictment – Conspicuous Absences     Ryan Goodman April 24, 2024 Just Security The Arizona indictment raises a question. How is it possible that Trump’s two alter egos have been indicted but the former president — the ego in th…
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April 27, 2024 at 1:40 AM

We’ve Officially Entered the Comstock Gaslighting Era

We’ve Officially Entered the Comstock Gaslighting Era     Susan Rinkunas April 11, 2024 Jezebel Republicans are working overtime to say, "'Don't worry, pro-lifers, we have a secret plan for a national abortion ban' and then also say, 'Where did you get that …
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April 27, 2024 at 1:20 AM

‘A Watershed Moment’: The View From Ukraine

‘A Watershed Moment’: The View From Ukraine     Elizaveta Antonova April 26, 2024 Meduza Zelensky administration adviser Mykhailo Podolyak on what the new U.S. aid package means for the war’s future Ukrainian soldiers receiving combat awards from P…
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April 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Climate Change

Portside Culture Climate Change     Eve Sutton It’s the Idea of Spring and poet Eve Sutton has been reminding us that climate change has been going on for a long time. It is no joke! ,   Climate Change By Eve Sutton You swore to lov…
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April 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder

Jewish Demonstrators Arrested at New York Protest Seder     Nina Lakhani April 24, 2024 The Guardian About 300 people were detained near Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn home Police arrested hundreds of people as a pro-Palestinian Je…
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April 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but We Don’t Have One

Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but We Don’t Have One     James K. Galbraith April 24, 2024 ScheerPost The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science. Biden …
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April 26, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Tesla Is Not the Next Ford. It’s the Next Con Ed.

Tesla Is Not the Next Ford. It’s the Next Con Ed.     Matteo Wong April 24, 2024 The Atlantic Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling. , Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock; Getty.   Of late, Tesla’s cars have come to seem a bit ha…
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April 26, 2024 at 12:00 AM

From World War II to Gaza:

From World War II to Gaza:     Kurt Stand April 25, 2024 The Bullet U.S. Labour Opposition to War and Fascism , UE   At a labor press conference/rally on December 14 in front of the White House, Brandon Mancilla – child of Guatemalan immigr…
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April 25, 2024 at 4:40 AM

Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation

Portside Culture Reclaiming Participatory Governance: Social Movements and the Reinvention of Democratic Innovation     Andrea Felicetti March 24, 2024 LSE Review of Books This book analyses social movements around the world that engage with democra…
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April 25, 2024 at 3:40 AM

Why Homelessness Stalks America Like the Grim Reaper

Why Homelessness Stalks America Like the Grim Reaper     Thom Hartmann April 22, 2024 The Hartmann Report Both homelessness & inflation are the result of America allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded & speculated in by financial m…
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April 25, 2024 at 3:20 AM

Iranian Women Violently Dragged From Streets by Police Amid Hijab Crackdown

Iranian Women Violently Dragged From Streets by Police Amid Hijab Crackdown     Deepa Parent April 24, 2024 The Guardian Video evidence shows multiple arrests after regime launched new draconian campaign against women and girls Women walking withou…
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April 25, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?

Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?     Medea Benjamin April 23, 2024 Common Dreams We are calling on countries around the world to pressure Israel to allow us “free and safe passage” to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. T…
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April 25, 2024 at 2:45 AM

We Visited the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Here’s What It’s Really Like.

We Visited the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Here’s What It’s Really Like.     Tiffany Cabán, Shahana Hanif, Sandy Nurse and Alexa Avilés April 23, 2024 City and State What we saw couldn’t be more different from the dire warnings of rampant a…
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April 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – April 24, 2024

Global Left Midweek – April 24, 2024     April 24, 2024 xxxxxx Focus on Europe National strike, Athens, April 17. Writing on banner with red line across the face of Greece’s Prime Minister, reads in Greek: “Killer Government / We Will Overturn It."…
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April 24, 2024 at 12:20 AM

Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime?

Will the Supreme Court Make Homelessness a Crime?     Abby Vesoulis April 22, 2024 Mother Jones Unhoused people in Grants Pass were arrested for sleeping outside, but there was nowhere else for them to go. Unhoused senior citizens Kim Morris and Ke…
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April 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM

FTC To Finalize Noncompete Rule Today

FTC To Finalize Noncompete Rule Today     David Dayen, Luke Goldstein April 23, 2024 The American Prospect The fight now shifts to the courts, where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will likely try to strip the agency of its rulemaking authority. , Fra…
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April 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM

Bernie Sanders to Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Stop Murdering Innocent People’

Bernie Sanders to Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Stop Murdering Innocent People’     Martin Pengelly April 23, 2024 The Guardian Vermont senator makes remarks after Israeli strike kills seven aid workers, amid war that has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians …
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April 24, 2024 at 12:15 AM

War & Genocide on Earth Day

War & Genocide on Earth Day     Melissa Garriga April 21, 2024 Consortium News U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security, writes Melissa Garriga. Damaged buil…
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April 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Frank Borzage’s ‘Man’s Castle’: The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece

Portside Culture Frank Borzage’s ‘Man’s Castle’: The Rediscovery of a Depression-Era Masterpiece     Richard Brody April 17, 2024 The New Yorker A new restoration of Frank Borzage’s 'Man’s Castle' starring Loretta Young and Spencer Tracy, showcases t…
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April 24, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 23, 2024

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – April 23, 2024     April 23, 2024 xxxxxx Rights in free fall , Ruben Bolling   Rev. Barber’s Challenge to Christian Nationalism Passover 2024 Weaponizing DEI Three Big Myths About Climate Activism Pro-Pal…
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April 23, 2024 at 3:40 AM

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29

This Week in People’s History, Apr 23–29     xxxxxx Class Struggle by the Book (in 1914), The Global South Gets Organized (1955), Portugal Dumps Fascism (1974), Apartheid’s End (1994), Nixon on the Skids (1974), Pray for the Dead, Fight for the Living (1989)…
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April 23, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Green Groups Cheer $7 Billion in Federal ‘Solar for All’ Grants

Green Groups Cheer $7 Billion in Federal ‘Solar for All’ Grants     Jessica Corbett April 22, 2024 Common Dreams President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in…
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April 23, 2024 at 12:05 AM

The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War

The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War     Harold Meyerson April 22, 2024 The American Prospect We still have two labor systems, and need mass unionization to end our immense inequality, which has its roots in the Sou…
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April 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Strange Soups and Brass Bands

Portside Culture Strange Soups and Brass Bands     David Bacon April 12, 2024 The Reality Check: Stories and Photographs by David Bacon Soups are made from the traditions of the countryside where people are used to eating the animals that live there …
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April 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Wisconsin on Earth Day: The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected

Wisconsin on Earth Day: The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected     Amy Barrilleaux April 22, 2024 Wisconsin Examiner We know our health depends on the health of our planet. Clean Wisconsin, the state’s oldest environmental organization, was founded on the fir…
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April 23, 2024 at 12:00 AM

The FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder

The FBI Agent and Informant Behind Fred Hampton’s Murder     Aaron J. Leonard April 19, 2024 Jacobin Special Agent Roy Martin Mitchell was recognized in the FBI for his skill in developing informants in “the racial field.” Now we know the extent of Mitchell’…
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April 22, 2024 at 9:10 AM

Sunday Science: Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle

Sunday Science: Scientists Discover First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle     Erin Malsbury April 11, 2024 University California Santa Cruz After years of work, an international team of scientists have detected a sign of a major life event that may have only occur…
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April 22, 2024 at 8:10 AM

The Two-State Solution Is an Unjust, Impossible Fantasy

The Two-State Solution Is an Unjust, Impossible Fantasy     Tareq Baconi April 1, 2024 New York Times The Two-State solution mantra has allowed policymakers to avoid confronting the reality that partition is unattainable in the case of Israel and Palestine, …
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April 22, 2024 at 7:45 AM

The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)

The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)     April 16, 2024 TriContinental In the four decades since its founding, the MST has achieved significant milestones: 450,000 families have gained legal tenure of their land, another 65…
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April 22, 2024 at 6:25 AM

Buried: How We Choose To Remember the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Buried: How We Choose To Remember the Transatlantic Slave Trade     Annina van Neel, Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey De Vere, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Peggy King Jorde March 27, 2024 The Guardian How to create an appropriate memorial for the recently uncovered …
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