Authoritarians Love Fear, Defeatism, Surrender.

We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm. No one can deal with every issue at once, and choosing which part of the problem to commit to is part of the work of resistance.

What’s the Deal With the Latine Vote?

The diverse Latine experience, shaped by factors like immigration status, race, and class, is too often oversimplified—both by outsiders and within our own communities

What Happens Now?

Not satire from Borowitz, but a couple of history lessons. In 1984 after Reagan romped to victory with 59 percent of the popular vote and 525 electoral votes, Reaganism was declared unstoppable. But two years later, Democrats proved the pundits wrong

Ethnic Cleansing Nears Completion in Northern Gaza

An IDF general admitted that their goal was to expel residents and provide no options for return. Netanyahu’s cabinet changes means he is content to remain reliant not only on the ultra-Orthodox parties, but also extremists, such as Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Tidbits - Reader Comments - Nov.14, 2024

Reader Comments: Trump 2.0; What Next?; Where Do We Begin?; Texas Victories; What The Hell Happened? How - And Why Did Working Class and Union Members Vote? -- Virtual Event; Strategy for Labor: Panel Discussion in Honor of Merle Ratner; Cartoons;

Resistance 2.0

Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.

Is There Any Red Line That Israel Will Be Held To?

Following butchering and starvation, Israel has ignored US demands over aid for Gaza. There have been no consequences

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pick for Defense Secretary

The choice of the Fox News host and veteran was outside the norm. But he was a dedicated supporter of President-elect Donald J. Trump during his first term.

House Defeats Bill Enabling Trump Assault on Nonprofits

"Every single Democrat who voted for this is not taking the threat of Trump remotely seriously and should be disqualified from any leadership positions moving forward," said Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

Global Left Midweek – November 13, 2024

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Culture

film

‘Blitz’ Review: Love in the Ruins

Alissa Wilkinson The New York Times
McQueen makes a point of integrating into the film what is rarely seen in movies of this sort: a sharp depiction of racism among Londoners, the enraging sort that has so calcified it still surfaces when people are just trying to survive.

food

The Surprising Story of How Peaches Became an Icon of the U.S. Southeast

Meghan Bartels Scientific American
New research argues that after peaches were introduced by Europeans, they spread across the eastern U.S. with the help of Indigenous peoples who structured the ecology and the land to be appropriate for peaches to grow and they tended the plants.

poetry

A Moment in Gaza

Lola Haskins Porter Gulch Review
Precise as a haiku, with the force of a hand grenade, poet Lola Haskins offers a terrifying glimpse of the war in Gaza.

books

The Original Axis of Evil

Samantha Power The New York Times
This review is 20 years old, but it is nevertheless especially relevant to the United States at this political moment.

film

A Lyd Without the Nakba

Dikla Taylor-Sheinman +972 Magazine
Merging documentary with sci-fi, this new film narrates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian city in 1948, and imagines what it would look like if the war never happened. So the Israeli government banned it from being screened.

food

Dietary Guidelines Should Be Led by Science—Not Politics

Mary Story, Eric Rimm Center for Science in the Public Interest News
Proposed language in the House Farm Bill would explicitly introduce political interests to and harm the integrity of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—the foundation of school meal programs, SNAP, WIC, and other necessary nutrition programs.

Labor

labor

Ignoring Low-Wage & Low-Wealth Voters Cost Harris

Bob Hennelly Work-Bites
When Biden’s boosters were confronted with polling that most Americans felt negative about the economy, their response was to point to aggregate data. Yet, no one lives in the aggregate. You remember the day the sheriff puts you out of your home.

labor

Can Call Center Workers of the World Unite?

Steve Early Labor Notes
Steve Early reviews Debbie Goldman’s Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, 2024, 246 pages).

labor

WSLC: ‘Hope Is a Radical Act of Resistance’

President April Sims and Secretary Treasurer Cherika Carter, Washington State Labor Council The Stand
We cannot deny that fascism, fueled by racism and misogyny, has been leveraged to divide and weaken working people. But our movement was built to fight the forces that seek to undermine democracy and enslave the human soul.

Friday nite video

video

Post-Election Call to Action | Maurice Mitchell

Working Families Party, MoveOn, Indivisible, and more than 200 other organizations come together to discuss the path forward to protect our democracy and activatw their local communities

video

Lee Greenwood | John Oliver

John Oliver discusses Lee Greewood, naturalization, and a better song to play at naturalization ceremonies