Friday Nite Videos | September 6, 2024

JD Vance's Donut Disaster; Trump's Really 'Not Weird'. Alabama Generates Billions by Trapping People in Prison. Big Effing Development in DC Case. What Happened When These 6 Dictators Took Over? KAOS | Limited Series.

Sacrifice the Hostages? Israeli Protesters Have Chosen

The huge Israeli protests have been about bringing down the Netanyahu government. They also had a deeper, more subversive message. Without any of the speakers explicitly saying as much, Sunday’s demonstrations were for an end to the war.

Are You Ready for Some (Private Equity) Football!

The greediest owners in pro sports are now welcoming in the greed kings of high finance

Why Fascists Hate Universities

Authoritarians and would-be authoritarians are only too aware that universities are primary sites of critique and dissent. Attacks on universities are the canary in the coalmine of fascism.

Gus Walz Opens the Door to Appreciating Human Diversity

Gus Walz’s unbridled emotion on the DNC stage opens the door to more understanding of neurodiversity

Global Rebuke: Netanyahu Scuttled Hostage Deal

In addition to a press conference with foreign media, Netanyahu dispatched his confidant Ron Dermer to US media to address the hostage negotiations, as the PM is anxious about increasing U.S. media attention on the hostage families' criticism of him.

From School Librarian to Activist

Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the Louisiana librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back. She went to court against her attackers, and then wrote a book. And, she still a librarian.

Young Male Voters Are Flocking to Trump

Many young men seem to admire Trump’s king-of-the-jungle vibe: he roars, he bellows, he boasts that no one can ever beat him (unless they cheat). He isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He did very little for young men during his term as president

East German Elections in Thuringia and Saxony

US media made it seem like German people were turning out en masse to support fascists-when in fact less than a third of the only 7 percent of the German electorate that voted last week cast ballots for the extreme right Alternative for Germany(AfD).

Sept 5,2024-Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements

Reader Comments: 2024 Elections - Public Schools, Action on Corporate Power, High Prices, Inflation; Israel-Gaza: There Is a Way Out of This Mess - Please Take It; Labor Day, Learning About Unions, Public Employees Pay Gap; Remembering Paul Mishler;
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Sermon on the Mount 2024

Susan Cossette
As Minnesota poet Susan Cossette reminds us, watch out for prophets!

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America’s War on Theater

Daniel Blank Los Angeles Review of Books
Between 1935 and 1939, the New Deal-sponsored Federal Theatre Project staged over a thousand productions nationwide, reaching an audience of 30 million. It was an early target of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC).

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Seafood Is Getting Riskier To Eat Due to Climate Change

Stacey Leasca Food & Wine
High heat can make seafood more dangerous for human consumption. Both the European Food Safety Authority the U.S. Department of Agriculture warn that increasing sea surface temperatures can expand the range and season of Vibrio infections making seafood potentially more dangerous for human consumption.

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Laughter

Joanne Durham New Verse News
“You can tell a lot by a laugh,” said a certain Republican politician, and a laugh may set you free!

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U.S. Steel Threatens To Go Rogue

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Sparks shooting up from a work table towards a worker with face protection. Until yesterday, U.S. steelworkers hadn’t experienced an attack as sweeping as that of 1892.

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Rage in the Red Sea

Steve Yandell The Sea
“All those who care about the lives of seafarers – or a global supply chain that keeps its workers safe – must call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Peace is the best way to end the attacks on ships in the Red Sea."

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Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, Part 1: 2014–2016

Alex Caputo-Pearl Convergence
UTLA’s transformation story surfaces critical lessons that respond to the most important question facing the labor movement today: How do we ensure that the recent years of labor upsurge across economic sectors becomes durable, transformative power?

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The State of the Unions?

Chris Bohner Radish Research
A close look at data suggests unions could be doing a lot more to organize and build the labor movement in this moment.

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Will the Labor Upsurge Find Its Political Voice?

Barry Eidlin Jacobin
In the United States and Canada, we’ve seen an increase in labor militancy. This upsurge is a chance to inject working-class politics into the political arena, which has so far been mostly unresponsive to workers’ demands.

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KAOS | Limited Series Trailer

The Gods of Olympus are just one big, dysfunctional family — unaware that mortals have the power to bring them down

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Escaping the Gaza War for my Paralympic Dream

The Gaza Sunbirds are a team of paracyclists from Gaza, set up in 2020 by cyclist Alaa al-Dali after he was shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper during the Great March of Return in 2018