Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 27, 2022
Portside
The right raves, the people respond
The right raves, the people respond
The right raves, the people respond
Friday Nite Videos | July 29, 2022
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Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause: A Lie Embedded in American History. Choice (Texas Style). “I Call Bullshit!” Jon Stewart on the PACT Act. Manchin, Schumer Reveal Washington's Best Kept Secret. Why US Gun Laws Get Looser After Mass Shootings.
Choice (Texas Style)
Whose choice is it? Not who you might think ... in Texas.
Where Is the Supreme Court’s “Ordered Liberty” Going?
Truthout
The abortion ban map is a Southern map. The Supreme Court's 'ordered liberty' judicial vision is rooted there too. But the South is also the birthplace of the Freedom Movement and emancipatory visions.
Friday Nite Videos | May 27, 2022
Portside
A Simple Solution: Reduce the Number of Guns. Oye Como Va ft. Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana. Jacinda Ardern at Harvard: Gun Control and Democracy. How Your Phone Knows If You’re Getting an Abortion. The Hidden History of “Hand Talk.”
How Your Phone Knows If You’re Getting an Abortion
Roe vs. Wade is under threat. And if abortion is made illegal, people seeking to end their pregnancies will face an adversary that didn’t exist in 1973: mountains of data that can be used to track them.
Friday Nite Videos | May 6, 2022
Portside
For Religious Right, Abortion Was a Means to Power. Alyssa Milano | Abortion Rights. Happening | Movie. Days of the Theocracy. Covid-19: Where It Came From, and Why There Are More To Come.
The Growing Criminalization of Pregnancy
The New Republic
The end of Roe v. Wade will accelerate an existing effort to criminally punish people for their abortions, stillbirths, and miscarriages.
Students Stage Nationwide Walkouts for Reproductive Rights
Common Dreams
"People might look at us like we're young, but I genuinely feel like we can make the most change," said one Maine high school student. "Most of us are voting next year or this year."
For Religious Right, Abortion Was a Means to Power As Segregation Lost Political Potency
Ali Velshi reviews how the religious right became frustrated by the loss of segregation as an issue to mobilize their constituency and shifted instead to prioritizing abortion as a means of consolidating religious voters into a more powerful voting bloc.
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