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Material of Interest to People on the Left
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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Information is power. Our mission at Portside is to seek out and to provide information that empowers you -- that empowers the left. Every day we search hundreds of sources to connect you with the most interesting, striking and useful material. Just once a year we appeal to you to contribute to make it possible to continue this work. Please help.
Independence is Answer to US Colonialism in Puerto Rico
Wrong!: Andrew Yang Compares BDS to 'Fascist Boycotts'
New US Domestic Terrorism Measures Can Hurt Minorities
Unemployment Is Much Worse Than You Think — Here’s Why.
Global Left Midweek - January 27, 2021
Fighting the “Immigrant Threat” Narrative
Hank Aaron Was More Than a Man Who Hit Home Runs
Trump Plan To Speed Up Poultry Processing Halted
Beware Corporate ‘Democracy Washing’
Media Bits and Bytes - January 26, 2021
Culture
books
Building Solidarity
The Indypendent
The anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin, writing in 1902, called Mutual Aid "the conscience — be it only at the stage of an instinct — of human solidarity." This new book offers insight into how that idea can live in today's world.
Your Last Opportunity: Let's Make Waves Together
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film
Netflix’s The White Tiger Takes On Slumdog Millionaire, But It Doesn’t Stop There
Vox
Based on the bestselling novel, Netflix’s The White Tiger is a wry, blistering critique of inequality in India — and elsewhere.
food
When Mashed Potatoes Are the Gateway to Bigger Family Talks
Heated
I’m not the first voice to plead that we never go back to normal.
tv
One Good Thing: FX’s A Teacher Depicts A Teacher and Student’s Affair With Pain Intact
Vox
FX’s A Teacher unmasks itself as a condemnation of a storytelling trope too often characterized as innocent, sexy fun.
poetry
Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying
Poetry
The Palestinian-American poet Noor Hindi does not “write about flowers,”
but about the effects of colonization on her people.
books
Selma James Interviewed - Real Theory Is in What You Do and How You Do It
Verso Books Blog
Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.
Labor
labor
Bernie Sanders in New Push for $15 Minimum Wage Under Biden: 'For Me, it's Morally Imperative'
The Guardian
Senator Bernie Sanders says the widespread suffering caused by the pandemic-induced economic crisis has made it “morally imperative” to increase the US’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.
labor
U.S. Companies Using Pandemic as a Tool to Break Unions, Workers Claim
The Guardian
Employers are alleged to be leveraging coronavirus-induced unemployment to mount an assault on collective bargaining.
labor
Exclusive: Google Workers Across the Globe Announce International Union Alliance to Hold Alphabet Accountable
The Verge
Alpha Global includes workers from 10 countries, including the United States and Germany.
labor
Chicago Teachers Are Voting on Whether to Defy Monday's Reopening Order
Labor Notes
If CTU were to strike over reopening schools, it would be a safety strike.
labor
Opening the Door to a More Democratic UAW
Labor Notes
More important, the agreement calls for a vote of all 400,000 members to decide whether they want direct election of top leaders.
labor
The Labor Movement Has a Game Plan for the Biden Era
In These Times
This time, unions intend to get something done.
labor
Progressives Are Ready To Strengthen Labor Unions In Virginia. Moderate Democrats, Not So Much
DCist
Del. Lee Carter says “right to work” is rooted in racial segregation and has lost support among everyday Virginians. But statehouse Democrats are reluctant to back a repeal because they’ve been bombarded by anti-union messaging from business groups.
Friday nite video
video
Goodbye Donald Trump
Not with venom, not with scorn, but with optimism, jubilance and celebration.
video
The White Tiger | Movie
The anti-Slumdog Millionaire: the epic journey of a poor Indian driver (Adarsh Gourav) who uses his wit and cunning to break free from servitude to his rich masters.
video
Get Up Stand Up | Skip and Cedella Marley
For this version, we added Skip and Cedella Marley, Malian blues rock band Songhoy Blues, harmonica virtuoso Lee Oskar and an excerpt of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
video
Using Your Voice Is a Political Choice | Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman, who shone at the inauguration ceremonies this week, explains, "Poetry has never been the language of barriers. It's always been the language of bridges."
video
Same Script. New Faces Tell a Different Story.
Kamala Harris takes the oath of office as Vice President of the United States from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
video
Bernie Sanders on America's Way Forward
Bernie Sanders comments on the troubling prospect that members of Congress may have aided the Capitol insurrectionists and he lays out an ambitious agenda for the new Senate, which he insists must prioritize relief for Americans suffering from the pandemic and high unemployment. #Colbert #BernieSanders #SenatorSanders
video
Documentary: MLK/FBI
Award-winning editor and director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. Full review.
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