Sightseeing in the Apartheid State

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June 13, 2013
Eyewitness to the still-unfolding history of ethnic cleansing and Occupation. Report from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. this land, together with Gaza, is referred to by the United Nations and other international bodies as the Occupied Palestinian Territories, or oPt - Palestinian land under Israeli Occupation. We met with students and faculty members from five different Palestinian universities, toured towns and refugee camps in the West Bank.
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Women Fighting For Their Homes Face Jail

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June 13, 2013
Five years after Wall Street crashed the economy, not one banker has been prosecuted for the reckless and fraudulent practices that cost millions of Americans their jobs, threw our cities and schools into crisis, and left families and communities ravaged by a foreclosure crisis and epidemic of underwater mortgages.
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Tidbits - June 13, 2013

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June 13, 2013
Reader Comments - Dirty Wars and Jeremy Scahill,; Alice Walker's open letter to Alicia Keys; Syrian proxy war; False economic recovery; NSA spying; It's the Corporations; We Steal Secrets; Baseball and drugs; Spain and the International Brigades - today; Berlin demonstrations against Obama visit; Announcement - Milton Rogovin DVD now available on sale
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For Radical Freedom - Angela Davis' New Book

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June 13, 2013
Angela Davis' lectures take the reader towards a serious reconsideration of ideology and the state apparatus and the deplorable question of oppression on the basis of race, gender, class and sexual orientation. The wholesale criminalisation of young black men cannot be permitted and the concept of rehabilitation has to find some ground. The Meaning of Freedom articulates a bold vision of the society we need to build and the path to get there.
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Labor Urgency, New Approaches to Organizing

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June 13, 2013
Many in the labor movement recognize some of the problems that working people face, however there isn't enough urgency and there isn't a recognition that fundamental change is necessary. The opposition sees this as a tremendous moment to eliminate unions as a viable force for working people.
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Sovereignty and Environmental Justice

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June 12, 2013
The Idle No More movement connects First Nations’ sovereignty to the protection of the Earth for all people—Native and non-Native alike.
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Labor Plots a New Direction

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June 12, 2013
If the September convention lives up to the spirit of today’s internal debate and AFL-CIO pursues policies recommended by the white paper, it stands to be the most significant convention since the 1995, when John J. Sweeny and his backers ousted the old guard Cold War warriors.
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Coalition Forms Against NSA Spying

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June 12, 2013
"This type of blanket data collection by the government strikes at bedrock American values of freedom and privacy. This dragnet surveillance violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens’ right to speak and associate anonymously and guard against unreasonable searches and seizures..."
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The Cost of Low Wages

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June 12, 2013
The cost of low wages at Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) are at the center of a new report released last week by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Low wages are an issue across the economy, but Wal-Mart, as the country's largest private employer, has long faced closer scrutiny than other companies.
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The Case for Higher Taxes

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June 12, 2013
There is no conceivable benchmark—in our past, or in comparison to our international peers—by which one could sustain the argument that we are taxed too much, or “taxed enough already.”
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Friday Nite Videos

Mavis Staples' One True Vine

June 14, 2013

Mavis Staples -- singer, actor and civil rights activist -- has a' new album -- 'One True Vine' -- available on June 25.

Maurice Sendak Google Doodle

June 14, 2013

This Google Doodle celebrates Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen), who would have been 85 this week. 

Back in Black - Future Technology

June 14, 2013

Lewis Black will gladly give up all of his private information, just so long as the future contains robotic beer butlers.

Portside Labor

Victory For Evergreen Strikers

June 19, 2013
http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/17/victory-for-evergreen-strikers
SOCIALISTWORKER.org
Student support workers at Evergreen State College win strike. They are members of The Washington Federation of State Employees/AFSCME. After 17 months of negotiations followed by mediation they went on strike May 28. Their new contract goes into effect July1. This is a rare example of an effective strike in recent years.

Toon of the Day

Musical Chairs

June 19, 2013

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