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May 5, 2024 at 12:00 AM

War in Sudan: One Year on…

War in Sudan: One Year on…     Fathi El-Fadl April 15, 2024 Liberation The outcome of this catastrophic war, even if touted as a “victory” by either side, will only be the exacerbation in the suffering of our people, and a hastening towards our country becom…
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May 5, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Are Critics of Student Protests Anti-Semitic?

Are Critics of Student Protests Anti-Semitic?     Ajay Skaria May 2, 2024 The Wire The distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is quite simple, and the protesting students recognise it. Students protesting at the University of Minnesota.…
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May 5, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Setting Our Sights on a Third Reconstruction

Setting Our Sights on a Third Reconstruction     Max Elbaum April 25, 2024 Convergence If our goal is a robust democracy and working-class power, the experiences of the Civil War-Reconstruction era and the Second Reconstruction of the 1950s-’60s provide cruc…
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May 4, 2024 at 4:15 AM

Friday Nite Videos | May 3, 2024

Friday Nite Videos | May 3, 2024     May 3, 2024 xxxxxx Blue Bottle Baristas Are Organizing. Like a Kidney Stone | Bob Dylan and Women Journalists.Jesse Watters Math | The Daily Show. I Am Gitmo | Movie. Why Do So Many Americans Support a Neofascist? …
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May 4, 2024 at 2:40 AM

What’s Really Happening on College Campuses, According to Student Journalists

What’s Really Happening on College Campuses, According to Student Journalists     Catherine Kim May 3, 2024 Politico POLITICO Magazine asked leaders of campus news organizations to set the record straight about campus unrest, antisemitism and what the media …
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May 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM

It’s Time To Tax the Billionaires

It’s Time To Tax the Billionaires     Gabriel Zucman May 3, 2024 New York Times The idea that billionaires should pay a minimum amount of income tax is not a radical idea. A global coordinated minimum tax on the superrich will not fix capitalism. But it is …
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May 4, 2024 at 2:05 AM

Zach Shrewsbury Vows To Represent West Virginia’s Working Class

Zach Shrewsbury Vows To Represent West Virginia’s Working Class     Steve Early May 2, 2024 Barn Raiser Grassroots organizer and former Marine Zach Shrewsbury is vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate against a Manchin-backed candidate and an ex-coal excecutive…
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May 4, 2024 at 1:55 AM

Campus Protest: Here’s What You Should Worry About

Campus Protest: Here’s What You Should Worry About     Stephanie Luce May 3, 2024 xxxxxx You may not agree with their demands. And you might not like their strategy. But here is what I think everyone should know and be deeply worried about. Penn St…
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May 4, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Evelyn Hutchins

Portside Culture Evelyn Hutchins     Peter Neil Carroll February 1, 2024 Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Saturday May 4 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) honors the memory of the US volunteers of the Spanish Civi…
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May 3, 2024 at 2:10 AM

Will They Crush the Biggest Student Movement Since Vietnam?

Will They Crush the Biggest Student Movement Since Vietnam?     Jewish Voice for Peace May 1, 2024 Jewish Voice for Peace In a matter of days, dozens of Gaza solidarity encampments have sprung up on over a hundred university campuses across the U.S. It’s the…
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May 3, 2024 at 1:55 AM

Students on the Right Side of History – the Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza

Students on the Right Side of History – the Distortion of Campus Protests Over Gaza     Helen Benedict May 2, 2024 TomDispatch The protesters, are mostly undergraduate women, along with a smaller number of undergraduate men, 18 to 20 years old, standing up f…
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May 3, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Palestinian Released From Israeli Prison Describes Beatings, Sexual Abuse and Torture

Palestinian Released From Israeli Prison Describes Beatings, Sexual Abuse and Torture     Gideon Levy and Alex Levac April 28, 2024 Haaretz Amer Abu Halil, a West Bank resident who was active in Hamas and was jailed without trial, recalls the wartime routine…
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May 3, 2024 at 1:15 AM

How Portland Teachers Led the Longest K–12 Strike in Decades

How Portland Teachers Led the Longest K–12 Strike in Decades     Melissa Blount and Matt Reed; Illustrator: Joe Brusky April 15, 2024 Rethinking Schools The seeds of our strike were sown 10 years ago. In the 2013–2014 school year, school district leaders dem…
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May 3, 2024 at 12:20 AM

Tidbits – May 2 – Reader Comments: UAW’s Fain in Solidarity With Students; Letter to Columbia Pres Shafik; Students Need Our Support Now; Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community; Research Tools for Organizers; Setting a Larger Table-Religion & Socialism

Tidbits – May 2 – Reader Comments: UAW’s Fain in Solidarity With Students; Letter to Columbia Pres Shafik; Students Need Our Support Now; Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community; Research Tools for Organizers; Setting a Larger Table-Religion & Socialism     May 2…
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May 3, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Libby Frank Presente! – Meet This Extraordinary Activist for Middle East Peace in a New Book!

Portside Culture Libby Frank Presente! – Meet This Extraordinary Activist for Middle East Peace in a New Book!     Marilyn Albert April 29, 2024 Portside Jewish activists who support the cause of the Palestinians will take particular interest in her …
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May 2, 2024 at 7:30 AM

Would “Dictator” Trump Kill His Rivals?

Would “Dictator” Trump Kill His Rivals?     Thom Hartmann May 1, 2024 The Hartmann Report Trump has unleashed his inner psychopath and if he wins this election it’s going to get uglier here in America than most people today can imagine… Trump suppo…
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May 2, 2024 at 7:15 AM

Why Are Pro-Palestinian US Student Protesters Wearing Masks on Campus?

Why Are Pro-Palestinian US Student Protesters Wearing Masks on Campus?     Nick Robins-Early April 30, 2024 The Guardian An intense and organized effort to bring down personal and professional repercussions on participants is playing out online Pro…
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May 2, 2024 at 7:05 AM

Calling the Police on Campus Protests Shows That College Presidents Haven’t Learned a Thing Since the 1960s

Calling the Police on Campus Protests Shows That College Presidents Haven’t Learned a Thing Since the 1960s     Michael Hiltzik April 29, 2024 Los Angeles Times The lessons should be obvious. Bringing police onto a college campus on the pretext of preserving…
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May 2, 2024 at 6:45 AM

How Shifting U.S. Policies Led to One of the Deadliest Incidents Involving Immigrants in Mexico’s History

How Shifting U.S. Policies Led to One of the Deadliest Incidents Involving Immigrants in Mexico’s History     Perla Trevizo May 1, 2024 ProPublica A year ago, 40 men were killed in a detention center fire in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. A ProPublica-Texas Tribune …
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May 2, 2024 at 4:50 AM

The Crisis of Classical Studies: On Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome”

Portside Culture The Crisis of Classical Studies: On Mary Beard’s “Emperor of Rome”     Edward J. Watts March 29, 2024 Los Angeles Review of Books This book highlights both the strengths and the weaknesses of classical studies at the present time. …
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May 2, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Global Left Midweek – May Day 2024

Global Left Midweek – May Day 2024     May 1, 2024 xxxxxx A special gift to GLM followers , Grandjouan, 1906   For May Day Campus Protests Going Global Palestine Resistance is an Array of Forces Streets of Rage in Argentina Two Takes on Co…
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May 1, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Trump Says He Would Let States Prosecute Women for Violating Abortion Ban

Trump Says He Would Let States Prosecute Women for Violating Abortion Ban     Jake Johnson April 30, 2024 Common Dreams "There is zero doubt in my mind that Trump will choose anti-abortion extremists and their horrifying agenda over American families every s…
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May 1, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Southern Autoworkers’ Union Drives Can Help Reverse Decades of Job Quality Decline

Southern Autoworkers’ Union Drives Can Help Reverse Decades of Job Quality Decline     Marc Bayard, Dev Wakeley April 29, 2024 Inequality.org On the heels of a UAW victory in Tennessee, Mercedes-Benz workers are about to vote on unionization in Alabama. …
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May 1, 2024 at 12:05 AM

Revolt in the Universities

Revolt in the Universities     Chris Hedges April 30, 2024 The Chris Hedges Report University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and explusions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza. Where Have …
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May 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Donald Trump’s Empty Promises on Jobs

Donald Trump’s Empty Promises on Jobs     Lawrence S. Wittner April 15, 2024 The Hill During the four years of Trump’s presidency, the United States lost 2.7 million jobs. As a result, he was the only president since 1939, when the U.S. government began comp…
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May 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM

‘I Am Gitmo’: An Enhanced Interrogation of an American Shame

Portside Culture ‘I Am Gitmo’: An Enhanced Interrogation of an American Shame     Carrie Rickey April 26, 2024 Truth Dig In “I Am Gitmo,” French director Philippe Diaz recreates the torture rooms inside the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. …
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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…