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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
A Georgia Victory for Black Political Organizing
The Unfolding #MeToo Moment for Junot Diaz
No Cop Academy Protesters Disrupt Chicago City Council
Was Kevin Cooper Framed for Murder?
Honoring the Catonsville 9
How to Protect a Renter Nation
The Supreme Court’s Latest Anti-Worker Decision
"Kinder Morgan Will Not Finish This Pipeline"
The Destruction of Plant and Animal Life by Humans
Dispatches From the Culture Wars
Culture
film
Two Coming-of-Age Films: New York in the ’70s, Paris Today
Hollywood Progressive
Two films depicting a young person’s coming of age are showing on screens now: Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and Le Brio about a young Arab woman in Paris who achieves her dream of becoming a lawyer by overcoming the toxic racism of her law school professor.
food
The Colonel In the Kitchen: A Surprising History Of Sous Vide
The Salt
Col. Ambrose McGuckian, the author's step-grandfather, developed the "water bath cooking" technique which is very similar to what we now know as sous vide.
tv
Is Television Ready for Angry Women?
The Atlantic
Producer Marti Noxon has two shows about women’s pain and rage debuting this summer—and the timing couldn’t be better.
poetry
Egg
AGNI
An egg is an egg is an egg but in Joyce Peseroff’s subtle poem, an egg is a marker of a person’s social conscience.
books
Cursing Cortes
The New York Review of Books
The simple story of Cortés's evisceration of the the Aztecs is not so simple. In letters to Spain's King Carlos I, justifying morally Mexico’s occupation, Cortés distorted what was in fact a messy and confusing war involving several armies from already competing European nations. His lies linger.
books
Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’
The Root
This work by Zora Neale Hurston, the famed author of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), has surfaced after over eight decades. It is the autobiography, as transcribed by Hurston, of the life of one of the last persons enslaved in Africa and brought to this country.
film
Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution
New York Times
“Before, I was my father’s Janie,” says this determined woman, who with grit and welfare checks is raising her six children alone in an abject corner of Newark. “And then I was Charlie’s Janie,” she says of her abusive husband. “Now I’m Janie’s Janie.”
Labor
labor
At Outside In, An Overwhelming Vote to Unionize
nwLaborPress.org
The Outside In unit will consist of about 125 workers in about 50 separate classifications. Alongside the vote to unionize, Outside In employees who hold advanced degrees also voted 21 to 7 to be in the same AFSCME bargaining unit.
labor
'Roll Up Your Sleeves': At a Dark Time for U.S. Unions, This Woman Sees Hope
The Guardian
“If you look at the strongest unions today, they are our public sector education unions and these are unions that by and large are made up of women with women leaders,” says Lily Eskelsen García, the National Education Association president. “We aren’t not sitting by and accepting the status quo.”
labor
What’s Behind the Teachers’ Strikes
Dollars and Sense
To understand the insurgency, we need to look at economics, and at political economy specifically. But we especially need a labor-movement analysis.
labor
Craft Beer’s Moral High Ground Doesn't Apply to Its Workers
Splinter
For his work as a production manager at Falling Sky overseeing a team of brewers and working up to 65 hours a week, Timms made what came out to a little over $40,000 a year. Frustrated, he quit his brewing job in early 2018, convinced that craft brewers were getting shorted across the industry.
labor
Police Union Is Lobbying To Expand Powers To Tase People Who Don’t Pose a Threat
Working In These Times
Although tasers are frequently identified by police as a necessary alternative to avoid deadly force, a 2017 Reuters investigation found that, since the early 2000s, more than 1,000 people have died after the police stunned them.
labor
Ethiopian Unions Pitch for Minimum Wage in Garment Sector
Dawn News
Garment and textile workers are organizing to improve their pay. They are amongst the least paid in the country, often earning less than $1.00 per day.
labor
It's Official: Pueblo Teachers Approve Contract, Ending Strike
The Pueblo Chieftain
The walkout against the district was the first teachers strike in Colorado in nearly a quarter of a century. Garnering the attention of both the state and nation, the action is the first public-sector workers strike in Pueblo since 1977.
Friday nite video
video
The Biggest Myths About Socialism
Why are Americans so afraid of socialism? Because its powerful detractors have been lying to the American people about it for decades.
video
Black Eyed Peas - Street Livin'
Prison Industrial Complex. Immigration. Gun Violence. Police Brutality. These issues are critical for our families, friends, communities, and world. Stay Woke, Take Action Now.
video
Donald Jr.'s Testimony Summarized: 'I Do Not Recall'
Don Trump Jr. displayed impressive non-recall about ... just about everything ... when he testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
video
Google Employees Quit Over Military Drone Program - Project Maven
Why some Google employees have resigned over Project Maven, a U.S. government drone program.
video
Why Israelis and Palestinians Both Claim Jerusalem
The U.S. embassy to Israel has moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Here's how this sacred city factors into a conflict 70 years old.
video
The Monopolization of America
Robert Reich takes a take an in-depth look at antitrust laws in the United States and explains how corporate giants have come to dominate the American economy and politics.
video
Hidden Meanings Behind Childish Gambino's 'This Is America'
The Internet was quick to point out tons of hidden messages throughout 'This Is America'. Here are some you may have missed.
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