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Material of Interest to People on the Left
Portside
Material of Interest to People on the Left
There’s an information war raging, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Every day we search hundreds of items on the Internet to bring you insightful and reliable material on the side of democracy and social justice. Once a year we appeal to you to contribute to this work. Please help.
The Dangerous Extremism That’s Killing the Democrats
Is Society Coming Apart?
Fighting the Inflation Profiteers
Stephen Sondheim: A Musical Theatre Icon
Indian Farmers Movement Forced Modi to Repeal Farm Laws
Giving Tuesday: A Portside Message: Our Vision for 2022
Stop Here. And Look.
How the Mexican Revolution Made John Reed a Red
Time to Charge Trump and His Coup Plotters
Neither Grandmaster Yields In A Chess Tug Of War
Culture
food
The Migratory Locust: It’s What’s for Dinner
Modern Farmer
The European Union has started to approve insects as food and indicatioins are that it will not be the last such verdict.
tv
Tucker Carlson, Your Boss’s Favorite “Populist”
Jacobin
Tucker Carlson likes to style himself a populist. But every time there’s a fight over something that might actually make life easier for working-class people, he never misses the opportunity to take the side of big business and the rich.
Giving Tuesday - A Portside Message: Our Vision for 2022
Portside
The threat to the survival of our democracy is clear: a would-be dictator and a cultist political party. A truly multiracial, inclusive, radical democratic movement that has a vision beyond capitalism is key. You can help.
poetry
On the Fourth Wednesday of November
newversenews.com
By silent agreement, I watch two women—one white, one black—honor a personal transaction.
books
In Derecka Purnell’s ‘Becoming Abolitionists,’ History is a Guide
Essence
Author Derecka Purnell seeks to "not only end the carceral state," writes reviewer Biakolo, "but to permanently transform the current punitive legal and justice framework of the United States."
film
How Netflix’s Adaptation of Passing Reflects the Novel’s Time — and Ours
Vox
Cool, elegant, and devastating, a film as tightly woven and plaintive as the source novel itself. It’s an artifact of its time, both 1929 and in 2021, when the questions around identity have morphed and shifted but are still relevant as ever.
food
The Culinary World of Pompeii
Legion of Honor
The Roman culinary experience, as reflected in the vast amount of evidence that survives in Pompeii, was a great deal more ordinary than we have been led to believe.
Labor
labor
After Long Island Farmworkers Unionize, Organizers Hope to See Others Follow
Prism
A group of agricultural workers on Long Island has formed New York’s first farmworkers union—a landmark move that was the result of decades of activism.
labor
Washington Mental Health Workers Win Safety Strike
Labor Notes
Workers at Cascade Behavioral Health walked out in August following an attack by a patient that injured 11 staff. The National Labor Relations Board concluded this was legal—possibly the first time it has condoned a safety strike in the health care.
labor
Inflation and Corporate Profits
Business Insider
Corporations are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices and make fatter profits — and it's making the problem worse
labor
A Diverse Coalition of Workers Plans to Use Black Friday to Turn Up the Heat on Amazon
HT Brew
The annual shopping frenzy will be underscored by an international day of protest against what activists say are unfair labor practices.
labor
It's International Food Workers Week—Support Organizing That Centers Those Who Feed Us
Common Dreams
Too often, workers' calls for justice and all of our calls for a fair food system are met with false solutions like this label that try to rebrand the exploitative status quo as ethical. But there is another way.
labor
A Look at How Unions Lift Workers
American Prospect
Unions aren’t just about strikes and politics—the stories the media covers. There’s a big story the media usually misses about unions: how, concretely, they improve workers’ lives.
labor
Here's Why Gen Z is Unionizing
CNN Business
Many of the Gen Z generation say they want to join a movement where social causes are part of their workplace values.
Friday nite video
video
Jeanine Pirro Cold Open | SNL
Jeanine Pirro (Cecily Strong) discusses the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and welcomes Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) to discuss Biden’s Build Back Better infrastructure bill.
video
Bolivian Andean Music | KAMAQ
Live music from the heights of Bolivia. Tupac Katari nation interpretation by the Bolivian group KAMAQ.
video
Passing | Trailer | Netflix
The story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
video
NASA Launches 'Planetary Defense' Probe vs Asteroid
Borrowing a page from Hollywood’s playbook, NASA on Tuesday launched its first-ever attempt to redirect an asteroid, an important test for the future of the defense of the Earth from catastrophic impacts.
video
In the Dark of the Valley | Documentary
In 1959, the Santa Susana Field Lab experienced an unconfined partial meltdown which resulted in what many now consider to be the worst nuclear disaster in United States history. It remained concealed from the public eye for twenty years.
video
Union Busting | John Oliver
John Oliver discusses the mechanics of union busting, why the companies who do it face so few consequences, and what it really means when your manager wants to talk to you about “your attendance.”
video
The Real Charlie Chaplin | Trailer
For decades he was the most famous man in the world – but who was the real Charlie Chaplin? A remarkable archive of newly unearthed material reveals a poignant portrait of Hollywood’s most iconic figure.
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