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Material of Interest to People on the Left
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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Friday Nite Videos | June 20, 2025
She Got an Abortion. How a Texas Cop Tracked Her Down.
A Path to Pushing MAGA out of Power
Smartphones Again Set the Agenda for Justice
Why American Presidents Dance to Bibi’s Tune
Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents at Hospitals
AIPAC Demands Democrats ‘Stand With Israel’
Trump’s Cruel, Costly Budget Bill Just Got Even Worse
The Future of Sanctuary
Reader Comments & Tidbits, June 19, 2025
Culture
poetry
Jerusalem
An oldy but a goldy. Poet, philosopher, artist and mystic, William Blake offers us a vision of the struggle to build a peaceful and just society, an early skirmisher in the fight against capitalism. Check out those 'dark Satanic Mills.'
books
Moral Limits
Dissent Magazine
This book, writes reviewer Alpert, is "a powerful account of our failures to stop the war in Gaza, despite the professed worth we place on values like empathy.
food
Bring Back Horn & Hardart
Broken Palate
David Arena relaunched Horn & Hardart a little over two years ago. His goal is to bring back not just the company but its values.
tv
Netflix’s ‘The Eternaut’ Makes a Haunting Series of an Esteemed Argentine Comic
NPR
That in 1977, during a brutal military dictatorship, Oesterheld and his four daughters were all "disappeared" added immeasurably to the graphic novel's resonance. Today it's regarded as an Argentine pop culture classic.
poetry
Marxist Analysis of the Fifth Labor of Hercules
Riffing on an ancient myth, poet Alan Dugan finds a lesson applicable to our current predicament.
books
“A Thinker Deeply in Love With Humanity” – Understanding Hannah Arendt
LSE Review of Books
This book looks at previously under examined aspects of Arendt's thinking, especially regarding issues of love, gender, and race, in order to probe more deeply into the work of one of the 20th century's most celebrated political thinkers.
film
The IP Machine Laughs at Itself
Jacobin
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg mock Hollywood’s creative collapse in The Studio — while continuing to churn out sequels, reboots, and branded spin-offs.
Labor
labor
European Dockworkers Refuse To Load Weapons Aimed at Palestine
Blockades by dockworkers stand out as one of the most concrete and disruptive forms of solidarity that workers can offer when governments refuse to act.
labor
ICE Tried To Make an Example out of Labor Leader David Huerta. Now Is the Time for Unions To Speak Up on Behalf of Immigrant Workers.
Prism
Huerta is home now. But the fact that ICE would publicly detain someone with his visibility and institutional support simply for protesting should serve as the ultimate warning for anyone who believes in worker power.
labor
Americans Will Feel Impact of Immigration Enforcement on Farms, Union President Warns
NPR
As immigration enforcement ramps up, the head of the United Farm Workers (UFW) union says agriculture workers across the country are afraid to show up for work – and warned that fear could impact households across the country.
labor
Two Top Union Leaders Quit D.N.C. Posts in Dispute With Chairman
The New York Times
Randi Weingarten, president of the AFT, and Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME, resigned their positions in the Democratic National Committee, suggesting the party is failing to expand their coalition.
labor
Trump’s War on the Administrative State Is a Class War
Jacobin
Donald Trump’s attacks on environmental regulation and the administrative state are part of a right-wing class war — one that pits patriotic citizens against perceived liberal experts defending what’s left of the New Deal order.
labor
Article What’s Next for Capitalism
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Reinvention or Authoritarian Rule?
labor
AI Surveillance Won’t Stop Theft, but It Might Stop Unions
The American Prospect
The loss prevention industry is excited about using technology to combat shoplifting. But workers are getting caught up in the dragnet.
Friday nite video
video
The Law Firms That Power Corporate Greed
To fight oligarchy we need a real reckoning with America's biggest law firms
video
Sly & The Family Stone | Everyday People
In his 1968 hit song Everyday People, recorded with his band Sly and The Family Stone, Sly Stone (March 15, 1943 – June 9, 2025) confronted a world beset by chaos, war and hatred with a message of profound brotherhood and compassion
video
Why the Dems Should Create a Shadow Gov't
Elie Mystal talks to Dean Obeidallah about the need for Democrats to create a shadow govt, SCOTUS's horrible anti-transgender decision and more
video
Trump Morphs into Bush 2.0
Seth takes a closer look at Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson grilling each other in a very heated discussion about the merits of U.S. military intervention in Iran.
video
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Movie
Sundance award-winning documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons
video
"Who'll Stand With Us?" | Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys music video for "Who'll Stand With Us?" from the forthcoming album 'For The People' out on streaming July 4, 2025, out on CD/LP October 10.
video
Meme Coin Entrepreneur Plans $45 Million Military Parade | The Daily Show
Desi Lydic tackles Trump’s politicized Fort Bragg rally, which screened soldiers for loyalty and waist size. Plus, Trump's $45 million birthday parade.
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