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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
Trump Unleashing Goon Squads Against Immigrants
'Bugpocalypse' Threatens Insects and Ourselves
Bloomberg's Education Policy a Menace to Public Schools
“The Right to Do Whatever I Want as President”
Global Left Midweek - Die Linke and the German Left
Thank You Portside readers
How to Turn Your Yard Into an Ecological Oasis
High Stakes Tests Aren't Better—And They Never Will Be
The Wet’suwet’en Take Another Anti-Pipeline Struggle
Michael Bloomberg and the Dangers of ‘Any Blue Will Do’
Culture
books
Afterlives of the Emergency
Dissent
Responding to widespread popular discontent, Indira Gandhi marshaled the powers of the Constitution to suspend the rule of law. Her actions anticipated the crisis of democracy in India today.
film
Parasite Is Our Film
Jacobin
Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho on his film Parasite: " I tried to express a sentiment specific to Korean culture, [but] all the responses from different audiences were pretty much the same. Essentially, we all live in the same country, called Capitalism."
food
Cutting Down on Sugary Beverages? Here's What to Drink Instead, According to a New Study
Time.com
A recent study associates sweet beverages, even 100% fruit juice and artificially sweetened beverages with a higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes.
tv
We Didn’t Need the High Fidelity TV Show
Pitchfork
A generous reading might consider the show a corrective to the original, particularly because women, people of color, and queer folks now work the stacks at Championship Vinyl. A more skeptical take is that even this is morally suspect.
poetry
Nancy Pelosi tore up Trump's Speech
San Francisco Poet Beau Beausoleil answers the mysterious question, why did Nancy Pelosi tear up the State of the Union speech?
books
Can Journalism Be Saved?
The New York Review of Books
The evolution (or devolution) of journalism from reporting of facts through investigatory exposes to today's spread of Internet chatter.
books
Twenty-First Century Socialism
The Guardian
A modern manifesto to expand the non‑capitalist space bit by bit.
Labor
labor
UAW's New Dissidents Not The First To Call For One-Member, One-Vote
The Detroit News
A group of dissidents in the United Auto Workers is the second in 30 years to attempt change in the democratic union they say has really been ruled by one party: the Reuther Administrative Caucus.
labor
Kickstarter Workers Vote to Form First Union in Tech Industry
NBC News
The historic vote comes amid growing discontent among employees at technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, who have started to organize.
labor
Driven to Organize: App-Based Drivers Launch New Global Network
Medium
Drivers from 27 different countries launched the International Alliance of App Based Transport Workers (IAATW); a rare case where workers who fall outside the scope of traditional labor law and union structures have been able to come together.
labor
Why Would A Union Oppose Medicare For All?
Current Affairs
The Culinary Union’s stance on Medicare for All raises serious questions for the immigrant labor movement. It is in Labor’s interest to back M4A.
labor
Continued Surge in Strike Activity
Economic Policy Institute
Workers are dissatisfied with wage growth .
labor
Why Is Nevada’s Most Powerful Union Turning on Bernie Sanders?
JACOBIN
Top leaders in Unite Here Local 226 in Las Vegas have been circulating attacks on Bernie Sanders and his Medicare for All proposal. They should listen to their membership and stop slandering the most pro-worker candidate in the race.
labor
Pittsburgh AFL-CIO Opposes 1st Black Woman State Rep from Western PA for Re-Election
Payday Report
Despite being a champion of workers' rights, endorsed by SEIU and UE, Pitsburgh AFL-CIO leaders who are tied to the fossil fuel industry are spending massive amounts of money to try and prevent her re-election.
Friday nite video
video
Killer Mike Introduces Bernie Sanders
Killer Mike reaches back to James Baldwin to ask, "How long must we wait?" And he answers: The Time Is Now!
video
Drive-By Truckers - "Thoughts and Prayers"
A searing musical rejoinder to the "thoughts and prayers" reaction to gun violence, from the Drive-By Truckers new album, "The Unraveling"
video
Bloomberg Battles Trump and His Stop-and-Frisk Past
Michael Bloomberg the candidate is confronted with Mike Bloomberg, the stop-and-frisk mayor
video
AOC Tells What Multiracial Democracy Is All About in 1 Minute
Want to move forward to a multiracial democracy? Let's make sure everyone in New Hampshire gets to the polls. Send your friends this link and DO FOLLOW UP UNTIL THEY GO: https://t.co/ncdGWQBuBL #BernieForNH
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) February 11, 2020
video
How Scientists Are Fighting the Coronavirus: A Three Minute Guide
Three fields of research are vital to keeping this outbreak under control: epidemiology, virology and biomedical science. Research in these areas will be key, alongside collaboration and the open sharing of data and results.
video
Hasan Minhaj Sits Down With Bernie Sanders
Hasan and Bernie talk presidential campaign, foreign policy in the Middle East, student loan forgiveness, and how Bernie plans on working with Republicans if he becomes president
video
The American Pie Is a Lot More Unequal Than People Imagine
WEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like?@TonyDokoupil turned America’s economic pie into a real one and asked people a simple question: Who gets what? pic.twitter.com/scGPKcHbie
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) January 31, 2020
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