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May 6, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican

Portside Culture Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican     Rafaella Daumas April 13, 2023Cultural Daily “I am Latina,” insists poet Rafaellla Daumas. “And I am not another curiosity to be stared at/ And I am not just another stereotype.” ,   Y…

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May 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Nurredin Amro’s Epic Battle To Save His Home From Demolition

Nurredin Amro’s Epic Battle To Save His Home From Demolition     Nora Lester Murad April 24, 2023The Markaz Review The writer’s Palestinian friend, a blind school principal, has resisted eight years of Israeli efforts to drive his family out of Jerusalem. Ethnic clea…

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May 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Four Possibilities for the Kremlin Attack

Four Possibilities for the Kremlin Attack     Tom Nichols May 3, 2023The Atlantc Two drones struck inside the Kremlin complex early Tuesday. We don’t know exactly what happened but the Russian claims of a Ukrainian attack are doubtful. It’s more likely that Vladimir …

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May 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Democrats Shouldn’t Fall for McCarthy’s Debt Limit Ransom Attempt

Democrats Shouldn’t Fall for McCarthy’s Debt Limit Ransom Attempt     Max B. Sawicky May 2, 2023In These Times Republicans are threatening to tank the global economy if President Biden doesn’t agree to slash spending on social welfare programs. It’s a trap. Ho…

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May 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Mayor Adams’ Irresponsible New Police-Union Contract Demands Closer Scrutiny

Mayor Adams’ Irresponsible New Police-Union Contract Demands Closer Scrutiny     John Teufel April 12, 2023The Indypendent Massive pay hikes and continued abuse of overtime pay send cop salaries soaring while other city agencies are starved of funds. NYPD officers ar…

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May 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – May 4, 2023 – Reader Comments: Young Voters; Writers Strike; Corporate Evil – Workers Deaths, Polluters, Private Equity, Crypto Currency, Debt Crisis, School Vouchers; SpaceX Explosion; xxxxxx Cooking Controversy; Lots of Announcements

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May 4, 2023 at 5:55 AM

Why I’m Saying No to the IDF as a 17-Year-Old

Why I’m Saying No to the IDF as a 17-Year-Old     Fred Hidvegi April 27, 2023Common Dreams As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And if I…

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May 4, 2023 at 5:45 AM

Confronting the Roots of American-Style Fascism in One Family’s History

Confronting the Roots of American-Style Fascism in One Family’s History     Julie Carr April 30, 2023History News Network It made a kind of perverse and dangerous sense that some settler-homesteaders like my great-grandfather would seek to relocate the source of thei…

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May 4, 2023 at 5:15 AM

‘Immense and Needless Suffering’: Idaho’s Abortion Ban Is Creating a Crisis of Care

‘Immense and Needless Suffering’: Idaho’s Abortion Ban Is Creating a Crisis of Care     Alanna Vagianos April 26, 2023HuffPost The threat of prison time under Idaho's near-total abortion ban is forcing providers to leave the state — and pregnant people are paying the…

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May 4, 2023 at 5:00 AM

Ilhan Omar Condemns US Failure To Act Since George Floyd: ‘A Broken System’

Ilhan Omar Condemns US Failure To Act Since George Floyd: ‘A Broken System’     Sam Levin May 3, 2023The Guardian Exclusive: three years after murder, Minnesota congresswoman talks prison abuse and her new police violence resolution Ilhan Omar has condemned th…

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May 4, 2023 at 3:30 AM

The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity

Portside Culture The Poverty Paradox: Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity     Craig R. Roach April 24, 2023New York Journal of Books This book argues that the United States must move beyond its current minimalist approach to fighting povert…

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May 4, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May Day 2023 Reports

Global Left Midweek – May Day 2023 Reports     May 3, 2023xxxxxx Bringing back proletarian internationalism one May Day at a time Members of the Sommilito Garments Sramik Federation in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Monday, May 1, 2023. Credit, bdnews24.com   May …

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May 3, 2023 at 12:40 AM

Saudi Alfalfa Sparks Tension in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert

Saudi Alfalfa Sparks Tension in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert     Sharon Udasin April 30, 2023The Hill “We don’t have any restrictions on our groundwater,” Holly Irwin, a La Paz County supervisor, told The Hill. “So it’s like a free for all.” Going down. Drought in…

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May 3, 2023 at 12:30 AM

How the Biggest Private Sector Union Wants To Transform the Restaurant Workforce

How the Biggest Private Sector Union Wants To Transform the Restaurant Workforce     Aneurin Canham May 1, 2023Restaurant Dive SEIU President Mary Kay Henry outlines strategies to kickstart a national fast food union and reform labor law. Mary Kay Henry, seco…

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May 3, 2023 at 12:25 AM

The Golden Rule Sets Sail To Abolish Nuclear Weapons

The Golden Rule Sets Sail To Abolish Nuclear Weapons     Arnie Alpert May 1, 2023Waging Nonviolence 65 years ago, the Golden Rule ignited protests that led to a partial ban on nuclear weapons testing. Now it’s back to fight for nothing short of abolition. The …

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May 3, 2023 at 12:25 AM

How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis

How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis     Ellen Brown May 2, 2023CounterPunch Carter and Long make a compelling case that it was the FDIC, the SEC and the Federal Reserve that brought the banks down, by a coordinated, extrajudicial “war on crypto” that blo…

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May 3, 2023 at 12:00 AM

‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Review: An Unflinching Look at the True Price of Russia’s War on Ukraine

Portside Culture ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Review: An Unflinching Look at the True Price of Russia’s War on Ukraine     Adam Solomans January 20, 2023IndieWire Among the last journalists left in Ukraine after the invasion, Mystylav Chernov captures a horrifying por…

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May 3, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Media Bits and Bytes – May 2, 2023

Media Bits and Bytes – May 2, 2023     May 2, 2023xxxxxx Tucker, Lemon, BuzzFeed, Vice News – dropping like flies , Alamy Stock Photo   A Test of the News A Tucker Born Every Minute AI Spam Fox News Needs You California’s Media Regulation Bill Goodbye Tw…

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May 2, 2023 at 6:30 AM

What Home Cooking Does That Restaurants Can’t

What Home Cooking Does That Restaurants Can’t     Reem Kassis May 1, 2023The Atlantic When we eat, the social context matters perhaps even more than the food. , Illustration by Celina Pereira   As a professional food writer, I have always found joy and e…

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May 2, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Why Are So Many Young People Joining Labor Unions?

Why Are So Many Young People Joining Labor Unions?     Paige Oamek May 1, 2023The Nation For May Day, we talked to young workers—in tech, retail, food service, and more—about what brought them to the labor movement. Those under 35 overwhelmingly approve of organized …

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May 2, 2023 at 12:05 AM

What Is May Day? For the Most Part, the Opposite of Capitalism

What Is May Day? For the Most Part, the Opposite of Capitalism     Emma Bowman May 1, 2023NPR U.S. resistance to celebrate International Labor Day — also called International Workers' Day — in May stems from a resistance to emboldening worldwide working-class unity, …

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May 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Please Eat in the Library

Portside Culture Please Eat in the Library     Mackenzie Filson April 25, 2023Taste Magazine Increasingly, libraries offer more than just a place to take a break between using fast and free internet and researching ancient Martian glaciers. They’re stocked with…

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May 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

One-Quarter of Minority Youth in Cook County Juvenile Justice System Are Shot, Killed After Detention, Study Finds

One-Quarter of Minority Youth in Cook County Juvenile Justice System Are Shot, Killed After Detention, Study Finds     Andy Grimm April 24, 2023Chicago Sun-Times Long-term research from Northwestern University finds that rates of firearm injury or death are higher fo…

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May 2, 2023 at 12:00 AM

May Day, Haymarket, Kent State, Jackson State

May Day, Haymarket, Kent State, Jackson State     April 28, 2023Friday's Labor Folklore The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today. The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Chicago, Illinois,     The Haymark…

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May 1, 2023 at 9:30 AM

Sunday Science: How Does Dark Energy Accelerate the Universe?

Sunday Science: How Does Dark Energy Accelerate the Universe?     Ethan Siegel April 28, 2023Big Think All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up? For the first sever…

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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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