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September 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Taylor Swift Gave the Union Everything It Wants

Taylor Swift Gave the Union Everything It Wants     Kevin Hurler September 14, 2023Gizmodo The singer-songwriter met the demands of striking SAG-AFTRA, including streaming residuals, to release The Eras Tour documentary. Credit: KISS 108 FM,   As SAG-AFT…

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September 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Sept. 14, 2023 – Reader Comments: March To End Fossil Fuels – THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike – What You Can Do; Abortion Rights; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons;

Tidbits – Sept. 14, 2023 – Reader Comments: March To End Fossil Fuels – THIS SUNDAY; Looming UAW Strike – What You Can Do; Abortion Rights; Africa and France; Class Visits by Anti-War Veterans; 50 Years Ago Democracy Died in Chile; Cartoons;     September 14, 2023xxxxxx …

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September 14, 2023 at 6:35 AM

Justice Department Says Google ‘Flexed Its Muscle’ as a Monopolist

Justice Department Says Google ‘Flexed Its Muscle’ as a Monopolist     Luke Goldstein September 13, 2023The American Prospect On day one of the historic monopolization trial, the government put Google’s chief economist on the stand to show that the company valued def…

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September 14, 2023 at 6:25 AM

Teachers Describe Chilling Impact of Anti-Education Laws

Teachers Describe Chilling Impact of Anti-Education Laws     September 1, 2023Zinn Education Project While book bans make the headlines, the chilling effect of the bans and anti-education laws have an even deeper impact. Student counter-protesters in Langley, …

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September 14, 2023 at 6:05 AM

Poverty Rate Soared in 2022 As Aid Ended and Prices Rose

Poverty Rate Soared in 2022 As Aid Ended and Prices Rose     Ben Casselman and Lydia DePillis September 12, 2023New York Times The increase in poverty reversed two years of large declines. Volunteers at Common Pantry, a nonprofit food pantry in Chicago. Povert…

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September 14, 2023 at 5:50 AM

‘Corporate Media Will Always Side With CEOs’: Sanders Rips Coverage of Looming UAW Strike

‘Corporate Media Will Always Side With CEOs’: Sanders Rips Coverage of Looming UAW Strike     Jessica Corbett September 12, 2023Common Dreams "It is the totally reasonable demand that autoworkers, who have made enormous financial sacrifices over the past 40 years, fi…

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September 14, 2023 at 1:40 AM

The Red and the Queer

Portside Culture The Red and the Queer     Alan Wald September 8, 2023Against the Current Reviewer Wald praises this book's "grace," for the way its author "puts into conversation the deeply intertwined histories of what he calls 'straight, gay, or otherwise qu…

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September 14, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – Africa and France

Global Left Midweek – Africa and France     September 13, 2023xxxxxx A deep dive into the many sharpening contradictions in de-colonized Africa A protester holds a sign that reads, 'No to France the thief of Africa' as people gather to show their support to Bu…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How a Strip Mall in Hadley Became the Center of the Modern-Day Labor Movement

How a Strip Mall in Hadley Became the Center of the Modern-Day Labor Movement     Diti Kohli September 7, 2023The Boston Globe Workers at three stores all in a row in this Western Mass. town are forming unions Once heralded for asparagus farms and flower stand…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Exhausted, Injured and Angry: Autoworkers Are Ready To Strike

Exhausted, Injured and Angry: Autoworkers Are Ready To Strike     Sarah Lazare September 11, 2023In These Times - Labor Record profits should mean record pay—but that’s not how it’s played out at the Big Three automakers. These Ford workers have had enough. As…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:05 AM

The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room

The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room     Melissa Garriga and Tim Biondo September 12, 2023Nation of Change We can't keep ignoring its enormous "bootprint." ,   With nearly 10,000 people expected to take to the streets of New York Cit…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

50 Years After Chilean Coup, Let’s Remember Pinochet Resisters’ Inspiring Legacy

50 Years After Chilean Coup, Let’s Remember Pinochet Resisters’ Inspiring Legacy     Margaret Power September 11, 2023Truthour On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup, let’s follow Pinochet resisters’ example of solidarity in repressive times. Thousands of…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later”

Portside Culture Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later”     Billy J. Stratton September 8, 2023Hollywood Progressive A Zombie Film that Still Speaks to Our Current World, and with Quite a Bit of Class "28 Days Later" Classic Danny Boyle Zombie Horror Film Starrin…

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September 13, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 12, 2023

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 12, 2023     September 12, 2023xxxxxx Are corporations a woke conspiracy? ,   The Patriarchs’ War on Women Why is Music Getting Sadder? The Anti-Education Agenda How We Oppose Antisemitism When Doctors Go Unio…

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September 12, 2023 at 4:40 AM

‘It Became an Obsession’: The Long Search for the Remains of Pinochet’s Victims

‘It Became an Obsession’: The Long Search for the Remains of Pinochet’s Victims     John Bartlett September 11, 2023The Guardian As Chile marks 50 years since the coup, women who have scoured the desert for remains of their husbands fear the brutality of the death sq…

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September 12, 2023 at 1:25 AM

Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts

Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts     Jon Marcus September 1, 2023The Hechinger Report With student loan repayments about to restart, more people with ballooning college debt are aging into retirement Elderly Americans Have $36 Billion…

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September 12, 2023 at 12:05 AM

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 12–18

This Week in People’s History, Sept. 12–18     Deadly hurricane in 1928. Slavecatchers stymied (1858). Feds' forgeries flop (1918). Deadly racist church bombing (1963). Settlers take over Cherokee Strip (1893). Thin-skinned cops get served (1994). Eugene Debs speaks …

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September 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

After Two Climate-Decimated Harvests, Southern Peach Farmers Wonder How To Regroup

Portside Culture After Two Climate-Decimated Harvests, Southern Peach Farmers Wonder How To Regroup     Katie Jane Fernelius August 29, 2023The Guardian Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of th…

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September 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Apartheid by Another Name

Apartheid by Another Name     Laura Burocco September 8, 2023Il Manifesto Global The fire in a Johannesburg building killing 73 people is the result of decades of disastrous housing policies and the criminalization of poverty in South Africa. ,   The Joh…

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September 12, 2023 at 12:00 AM

“Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program

“Doing Harm”: Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association’s Embrace of U.S. Torture Program     Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Roy Eidelson September 5, 2023Democracy Now! Doing Harm investigates the American Psychological Association’s complicity in post-9/1…

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September 11, 2023 at 7:05 AM

Sunday Science: Do We Have Evidence for New Physics? Or Not?

Sunday Science: Do We Have Evidence for New Physics? Or Not?     Sabine Hossenfelder August 5, 2023Sabine Hossenfelder Do we have evidence of new physics or not? That's what we'll talk about today. , Sabine Hossenfelder       Biden’s Horse-Trading on N…

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September 11, 2023 at 5:50 AM

Learning From Chile: Navigating Complexities of Political Crises

Learning From Chile: Navigating Complexities of Political Crises     Pauline Lipman, Rico Gutstein September 7, 2023Convergence For the US there is much to learn from the Chilean experience about relationships between left government, movements, and popular protagoni…

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September 11, 2023 at 4:55 AM

Delegitimize the Court

Delegitimize the Court     Elie Mystal, Nikolas Bowie, Rhiannon Hamam August 22, 2023The Nation On the final episode of Contempt of Court, Elie Mystal is joined by legal experts Nikolas Bowie and Rhiannon Hamam to understand how we might strip the court of its presum…

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September 11, 2023 at 3:05 AM

The Black Working Class Can No Longer Be Ignored

The Black Working Class Can No Longer Be Ignored     Akil Vicks September 10, 2023Jacobin Across the political spectrum, Americans whitewash the working class and exclude labor struggle from black history. Blair LM Kelley’s Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working …

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September 11, 2023 at 2:30 AM

Ships Going Out

Ships Going Out     James Oakes August 30, 2023The New York Review In American Slavers, Sean M. Kelley surveys the relatively unknown history of Americans who traded in slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. John Greenwood: Sea Captains Carousing i…

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September 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Suits Is an Unlikely Time Capsule for a Troubled Decade

Portside Culture Suits Is an Unlikely Time Capsule for a Troubled Decade     Aja Romano September 9, 2023Vox Suits is half comfort watch, half reckoning — and America can’t stop streaming. Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter in Suits., hane Mahood/USA Networ…

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September 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil War

U.S. Fighters in the Spanish Civil War     Roger Bybee September 1, 2023MRonline Miguel Ferguson, !Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, ed. Paul Buhle and Fraser Ottanelli, art by Anne Timmons (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2022). …

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September 10, 2023 at 12:05 AM

Wildfires and the Threat to Earth’s Biodiversity

Wildfires and the Threat to Earth’s Biodiversity     Reynard Loki September 6, 2023Socialist Project: The Bullet There is a vicious cycle at work: While wildfires are destroying biodiversity, biodiversity loss may contribute to increased susceptibility to wildfires. …

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September 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Rolling Medicaid Purge

Rolling Medicaid Purge     Jake Johnson September 8, 2023Common Dreams Largest Concentration of Health Insurance Loss in US History Families gather for resources, including Medicaid eligibility and enrollment information, on April 27, 2023 in Springfield, Virg…

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September 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Smart Ass Cripple: How SSI Keeps People Poor

Smart Ass Cripple: How SSI Keeps People Poor     Mike Ervin September 6, 2023The Progressive Current rules for SSI recipients make it difficult to get financial help from friends and family. ,   Relying on Social Security Supplemental Security Income (S…

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September 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Anchors for Hope: The Benefits of Left Nostalgia

Anchors for Hope: The Benefits of Left Nostalgia     Siobhan McGuirk September 1, 2023Red Pepper Nostalgia is frequently invoked by the reactionary right, but it has its uses on the left. We must reach towards the stars without forgetting all that remains buried in t…

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September 9, 2023 at 12:55 AM

Friday Nite Videos | September 8, 2023

Friday Nite Videos | September 8, 2023     September 8, 2023xxxxxx Does Roblox Make Money From Child Labor? Is the Orca Uprising Upon Us? Inti Illimani - El Pais Que Sonomos (The Country We Hope For). The Morning Show — Season 3 Trailer. Late-night Hosts' Podcast To …

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September 9, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Christian Nationalists Have Provoked a Pluralist Resistance

Christian Nationalists Have Provoked a Pluralist Resistance     Ruth Braunstein April 21, 2023Religion News As Christian nationalists take advantage of a moment of political precarity to call for a turn toward authoritarian theocracy, the press should be paying atten…

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September 9, 2023 at 12:15 AM

Teaching SNCC: The Organization at the Heart of the Civil Rights Revolution

Teaching SNCC: The Organization at the Heart of the Civil Rights Revolution     Adam Sanchez September 1, 2023Rethinking Schools It’s not enough for students to simply learn about the sit-ins or Freedom Rides. SNCC’s organizing campaigns need to be at the center of c…

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September 9, 2023 at 12:10 AM

What We Are Witnessing in Africa Is Not an Anti-Colonial Revolution

What We Are Witnessing in Africa Is Not an Anti-Colonial Revolution     Tafi Mhaka September 5, 2023Al Jazeera Let us stop celebrating coups aimed at furthering the interests of a few military elites as acts of anti-imperialist resistance. Supporters of Niger'…

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September 9, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Chile’s Coup at 50: Countdown Toward a Coup

Chile’s Coup at 50: Countdown Toward a Coup     Peter Kornbluh September 8, 2023National Security Archive The documented U.S. role in the months, days and hours before the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger commiserated over the fact…

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September 9, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Visiting

Portside Culture Visiting     Rebecca Schumejda July 9, 2023Cultural Daily New York poet Rebecca Schumejda offers a parent’s heart-rending account of a visit to her incarcerated child. ,   Visiting By Rebecca Schumejda There are losses more heart…

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September 8, 2023 at 12:10 AM

Sara Nelson: Attacks on Abortion Rights Are Attacks on All Workers

Sara Nelson: Attacks on Abortion Rights Are Attacks on All Workers     Natascha Elena Uhlmann interviews Sara Nelson September 4, 2023In These Times Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson on abortion rights, building union density, and the sham of…

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September 8, 2023 at 12:05 AM

‘There’s a Very Real Danger Here’: AOC on 2024, the Climate Crisis and ‘Selling Out’

‘There’s a Very Real Danger Here’: AOC on 2024, the Climate Crisis and ‘Selling Out’     David Smith September 3, 2023The Guardian Twice re-elected and comfortable in her political skin, the Democratic congresswoman makes clear that Biden can't take progressives for …

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September 8, 2023 at 12:05 AM

How the War on Poverty Stalled

Portside Culture How the War on Poverty Stalled     Kim Phillips-Fein August 28, 2023The New Republic The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved? ,   Poverty, by America Matthew Desmond Crown I…

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September 8, 2023 at 12:05 AM

As Hollywood’s Strikes Pass Labor Day, How Studio Chiefs Misread the Writers Room

As Hollywood’s Strikes Pass Labor Day, How Studio Chiefs Misread the Writers Room     Brian Lowry September 4, 2023CNN While guild members would love to get back to work, the one thing they’re not going to do after months on the picket lines, whatever the studio’s st…

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September 8, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81

Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81     Jay A. Fernandez August 10, 2023ACLU Magazine The I-81 project, completed in 1968—and Syracuse remains one of the most segregated cities in the country, with the highest concentration of poverty among communities of…

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September 8, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Tidbits – Sept. 7, 2023 – Reader Comments: Correction; Trump Use of Scottsboro; Conservative Plan To Dismantle Govt; UAW Message to Big 3; 88% People Under 30 View Unions Favorably; Solidarity Rally With UAW; JOIN MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS – Sept 17

Tidbits – Sept. 7, 2023 – Reader Comments: Correction; Trump Use of Scottsboro; Conservative Plan To Dismantle Govt; UAW Message to Big 3; 88% People Under 30 View Unions Favorably; Solidarity Rally With UAW; JOIN MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS – Sept 17     September 7, 2023…

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September 7, 2023 at 5:35 AM

Cop City Protesters Charged With Racketeering As Georgia Takes Hard Line

Cop City Protesters Charged With Racketeering As Georgia Takes Hard Line     Richard Luscombe September 5, 2023The Guardian Some of 61 defendants charged also face money laundering and domestic terrorism charges for environmental protests Protestors hold signs…

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September 7, 2023 at 5:10 AM

‘A Reckoning’: 500 Groups Endorse March To End Fossil Fuels

‘A Reckoning’: 500 Groups Endorse March To End Fossil Fuels     Olivia Rosane September 5, 2023Common Dreams "The March to End Fossil Fuels isn't a request," one organizer said "It's a demand for President Biden to enact actionable solutions that match the scale of t…

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September 7, 2023 at 5:00 AM

Life and Death in America’s Hottest City

Life and Death in America’s Hottest City     Carolyn Kormann September 6, 2023The New Yorker Across the U.S., significantly more people die from heat each year than from any other weather-related event. Many of these deaths are concentrated in and around Phoenix. …

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September 7, 2023 at 4:45 AM

Inflation Is Slowing Down. But Working-Class Life in the US Is Still Hard To Afford.

Inflation Is Slowing Down. But Working-Class Life in the US Is Still Hard To Afford.     Branco Marcetic September 6, 2023Jacobin The inflation rate is cooling, providing a respite for workers. Yet there’s a reason why many are still unhappy with the economy: from he…

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September 7, 2023 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – September 6, 2023

Global Left Midweek – September 6, 2023     September 6, 2023xxxxxx Sorting through BRICS, Guatemala joins the Pink Tide, Islamophobia divides the French left, and more Multi-sectoral groups picket in front of the Embassy of Japan and the Department of Foreign…

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September 6, 2023 at 12:35 AM

Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate

Racist Shootings “Don’t Happen in a Vacuum”: Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate     Amy Goodman September 5, 2023Democracy Now “There is this history of not just who kills, but what kills and what creates the atmosphere,” says Barber …

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September 6, 2023 at 12:30 AM

UN Committee Releases Exhaustive Study on the Legality of Israel’s Occupation

UN Committee Releases Exhaustive Study on the Legality of Israel’s Occupation     Jeff Wright September 4, 2023Mondoweiss “The study is the most comprehensive and persuasive analysis of why the Israel occupation has now become illegal. It will be the intellectual and…

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