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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
Trump Does Not Have Mandate
A Portside Message: The Challenge of Wannabe Fascism
Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81
Legalized Murder
Hostage Family Leader Became Loud Anti-War Voice
Reader Comments & Tidbits, December 12, 2024
Hospitals' Pin New Mothers with False Drug Tests
Manchin, Sinema Block Biden NLRB Nominee
How AARP Shills for UnitedHealthcare
Global Left Midweek – December 11, 2024
Culture
books
‘How Many Dead Palestinians Are Enough?’ The Unbearable Prescience of the Late Poet Refaat Alareer
The Guardian
The author and academic was killed in an Israeli airstrike a year ago. A posthumous collection of his work, If I Must Die, tells the stories of Gaza in a plea for change
books
Grave New World
Bookforum
This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a growth surge that was slowly but surely running out of steam."
film
Toronto Film Festival Goes Around the World
Hollywood Progressive
A favorite film at the Toronto International Film Festival this year was by far M - Son of the Century directed by the talented UK filmmaker Joe Wright. It’s actually an Italian TV mini-series about the founder of fascism himself, Benito Mussolini.
food
Will Congress Force This Controversial Alcohol Study To Stop?
San Francisco Chronicle
The upcoming revision of U. S. Dietary Guidelines is unfolding amid a shifting global sentiment toward drinking. Members of Congress are calling for a suspension of a controversial committee that could recommend Americans reduce alcohol consumption.
A Portside Message: The Challenge of Wannabe Fascism
Portside
How can we prevent a wannabe dictator from consolidating absolute power? Please help us to inform, analyze and mobilize in the year ahead. Here's how. You can help Portside...
tv
Say Nothing Turns the IRA’s Secret History Into TV Drama
Jacobin
The new FX TV show Say Nothing dramatizes one of the most controversial stories in modern Irish history, with characters that include former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. Showrunner Josh Zetumer spoke to us about the challenges of producing the serie
poetry
Postscript
Marie Howe: New and Selected Poems
Poet Marie Howe shows us the frightening consequences of "what we did to the earth."
Labor
labor
The Conflicted Transformation of CAW-Unifor: A Review of Shifting Gears
Socialist Project: The Bullet
The absence of a socialist left rooted in the working-class is deeply felt in the declining role of the union movement in leading social struggles in Canada as it had for a century.
labor
Davis in Denial: Medicare Advantage Foes Refute TWU Local 100 Prez’s Claims of ‘Enhancing’ Retiree Benefits
WORK-BITES
TWU President "“Richie Davis didn’t enhance anything but his ego,” New York City Organizaiton of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola told Work-Bites. “Medicare Advantage is known nationally as a predatory health plan."
labor
Unions Brace Themselves As Trump Prepares to Defang Labor Board
Truthout
Trump’s NLRB will likely be filled with lawyers from the union-busting world hell-bent on rolling back workers’ gains.
labor
In Hurricane Ruins, North Carolina Food Workers Organize and Fight
Labor Notes
Restaurant workers threw themselves into cooking meals for thousands of displaced people with the local Mutual Aid Disaster Relief group. AFBU members helped workers apply for relief funds and more.
labor
Kentucky Battery Plant Workers Launch Union Drive With UAW
Labor Notes
The electric vehicle sector is growing fast, and auto companies have been using the transition as an excuse to open non-union plants. Organizing them is do-or-die for the UAW.
labor
Labor Documentary Amazon Doesn’t Want You To See
The Progressive
‘UNION’ follows Amazon warehouse organizers through an uphill battle, a stunning victory, and an uncertain future
labor
Sabotage as a Tool of Solidarity
In These Times
Workplace sabotage has historically been a powerful organizing tactic. Is the time ripe again?
Friday nite video
video
Five Things Christian Nationalists Want for the Trump Presidency
Days before the election, at a church in Georgia, Trump promised that he intended to put Christian leaders “directly in the Oval Office.” Here are a few things to track as Trump’s second term begins.
video
What Your Brain Is Really Doing When You're Doing 'Nothing'
When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. New research reveals the default mode network's role in memory, social awareness and sense of self.
video
The $1 Trillion Private Health Insurance Scam
Medicare Advantage. Is it less expensive? No. Is it better coverage? Also no. It’s just another way for corporations to skim more money off the ill.
video
Michael Kosta Meets the No. 1 Book Banner in Florida | The Daily Show
Michael Kosta travels to Florida to meet Bruce Friedman, the top book banner in the top book-banning state. #DailyShow #Florida #BookBan
video
Trump Goes to War With Allies and Partners
Canada. Mexico. Great Britain. Before assuming office, Trump is launching attacks on the closest partners of the United States, and is meeting with embarrassing rebuffs.
video
Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee) | Lance Canales
The story of the 1948 plane crash that took the lives of 32 passengers told by Woody Guthrie's poem Deportee, performed with guttural vocals, hard-edged, stripped down, foot-stomping acoustic instrumentation
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Faces of Deportation | ICE Raid in Mississippi
The past is prolog: after living in the U.S. for 18 years, a father is swept up in the largest workplace raid in ICE history, a daughter's quinceñera goes on
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