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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
The Case for Consequences - Lock Him Up?
Many Police Are Indistinguishable From Racist Vigilante
Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views
Which Way Germany?
Sept 17, 2020-Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements
US Young Adults Ignorant of Holocaust
The Media Learned Nothing From 2016
Arab-Israeli Pacts 'A Stab in the Back' to Palestinians
The DeJoy Scandal and Democracy in the Balance
Global Left Midweek - September 16, 2020
Culture
books
The Wages of Whiteness
The New York Review of Books
A deep dig into the literature on white supremacy shows how even such salient insurgent movements for social justice and racial equality as Black Lives Matter can be transmuted by corporate manipulation into instruments of ruling class stability.
books
White Women Were Avid Slaveowners
The New York Times
This new book offers new insight into how deeply slavery defined the lives of the enslavers and their families. It gives us new data regarding the scope of control that white women and girls, as well as males, had over the enslaved.
film
How Cuties, A French Movie On Netflix, Became Part of America’s Culture War
Vox
A movie critiquing the sexualization of young girls is accused of doing the thing it criticizes. Here’s how the controversy started — and why it matters.
food
The Secret Life of Groceries
SF Chronicle
A new book researching the grocery business reveals the unsustainability of American shopping.
tv
The Labor Abuses of Ellen DeGeneres
Jacobin
Ellen DeGeneres’s reputation as the kindest celebrity in America has finally been shattered. But it’s not just her “mean streak” that’s the problem — it’s that she’s an exploitative boss, who cheated her employees at the height of the pandemic.
poetry
Abe & Jack, Milt, Moe, Dave...
Chiron Review
Marking re-dedication of the San Francisco monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade on Saturday 9/12/20, poet Peter Neil Carroll reflects on his friendship with the US veterans who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
books
How Ronald Reagan Triumphed
New York Times
The fourth volume in historian Rick Perlstein’s critical series on the rise of the modern GOP’s far right shows Reagan as key in uniting a rank coalition that still epitomizes and explains much of the Republican Party’s sway.
Labor
labor
Organized Labor and the “Cold Civil War”
The present is explosive because of the fusion of crises. In this situation, organized labor has been inconsistent; sometimes paralyzed; other moments outspoken. Left unaddressed is the "cold civil war," created by political polarization.
labor
AFSCME, NAACP Launch Historic Partnership to Mobilize Black Voters
Atlanta Daily World
AFSCME, NAACP launch historic partnership to mobilize Black voters. This partnership kicks off with a joint four-state presidential radio buy on African American radio stations in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina.
labor
The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure
Time
The upward redistribution of income has cost Americans workers $50 trillion over the past several decades. On average, extreme inequality is costing the median income full-time worker about $42,000 a year.
labor
Striking in the Coronavirus Depression
Labor Network for Sustainability
This article is part of a series on how workers are organizing in response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression.
labor
In California, a “Labor Slate” Aims to Redefine the Relationship Between Unions and Politics
In These Times
In California, one group of union activists is forming a “Labor Slate” of candidates, in what they hope will become a model for future election cycles.
labor
Transit Workers Are Still Dying—With No End in Sight
The American Prospect
Though they’ve kept working in some of the most dangerous jobs, they’re now facing the prospect of furloughs and layoffs if there’s no more federal funding for transit.
labor
Six Months Into the Pandemic, Transit Workers Are Still Dying—With No End in Sight
THE AMERICAN PROSPECT
Though they’ve kept working in some of the most dangerous jobs, they’re now facing the prospect of furloughs and layoffs if there’s no more federal funding for transit.
Friday nite video
video
Trump and Fox News Double Down on COVID Cover-Up Defense
President Trump claims his lies to the public concerning coronavirus were about being a “cheerleader” for the United States, and his friends find someone else to blame. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #Trump
video
Babylon | Los Pinguos
“Babylon” is the first single from Los Pinguos' new album, Hummingbird. It bridges the gap between roots reggae and a contemporary Latin sound.
video
Woke | Trailer • A Hulu Original
Woke follows Keef, an African-American cartoonist on the verge of mainstream success, when an unexpected incident changes everything. Keef seeks to navigate new voices and ideas without setting aflame everything he’s built.
video
Bruce Springsteen | Letter To You
The title track of Bruce's forthcoming album.
video
Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think
Masks (whether surgical, or N95, or cloth) are counterintuitive and actually work much better epidemiologically than one might expect. Here's why that's so.
video
RNC 2020 and Kenosha
The Republican National Convention, shootings in Kenosha and a strike in professional sports -- three stories that are really one story, about race in America
video
'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Sings 'Grandma's Hands'
Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020) sings Grandma's Hands on "Popcorn With Peter Travers" after talking about the making of Marvel's newest superhero film.
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