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December 23, 2021

Tidbits - Dec. 23, 2021 - Reader Comments: Build Back Better - What Next?; Manchin Faces Blowback; Kellogg Workers Win; Omicron; Chile - Gabriel Boric Victory!; Käthe Kollwitz; In Memoriam: Michael Hirsch, Portside Cultural Moderator

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Reader Comments: Build Back Better - What Next?; Manchin Faces Blowback; Kellogg Workers Win; Omicron; Chile - Gabriel Boric Victory!; Käthe Kollwitz; In Memoriam: Michael Hirsch, Portside Cultural Moderator

December 20, 2021

Gabriel Boric Vows to ‘Fight Privileges of the Few’ as Chile’s Premier

John Bartlett in Santiago and Sam Jones The Guardian

Leftwing former student pledges to unite country and tackle poverty and inequality. The triumph of Boric, who belongs to a generation deeply opposed to the extreme economic model bequeathed to Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship

October 29, 2021

Not in Our Town: Ephrata, PA Says No to Extremists

Suzy Wurtz Organizing Upgrade

The struggle to protect children from covid by obeying mask mandates comes to a small town in Pennsylvania. How to build a coalition broad enough to beat back right-wing extremists.

October 20, 2021

Global Left Midweek - October 20, 2021

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La Via Campesina’s manifesto, political education in Africa, and mass action in Italy, South Korea and Puerto Rico

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August 12, 2021

A Remarkable Work of Family History Vividly Recreates the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany

Jennifer Szalai New York Times

New biography of Mildred Harnack, born in Milwaukee. She was a central part of the anti-Nazi resistance movement inside Nazi Germany, until her capture in 1942. Sentenced to hard labor, she was re-tried under Hitler's order, and executed.

July 24, 2021

Every Memorial Tells a Story

Lynne Walsh Morning Star

Anything we can do to bring the sacrifices and bravery of the International Brigaders to a wider public consciousness is a reminder that we too must join the fight against fascism.

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July 21, 2021

Donald Trump as Wannabe Führer

Lloyd Green The Guardian

This book, the second on Trump written by this pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, "pulls back the curtain on the handling of Covid-19, the re-election bid and its chaotic and violent aftermath."

June 12, 2021

Joseph Almudéver, the Last International Brigadesman, Died at 101

Pasquale D'Aiello Il Manifesto Global

Almudéver was a fighter with his whole being, a man unable to give up because he doesn’t know how to surrender, because it’s not right to surrender to oppression.

May 14, 2021

Friday Nite Videos | May 14, 2021

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Jordan Klepper - Arizona's Shady Recount. Line Rider Race - Who Will Survive? Colette: The French Resistance Fighter Confronting Fascism. Rashida Tlaib Delivers Powerful Speech About Palestine. The Underground Railroad | Series Trailer.

Colette: The French Resistance Fighter Confronting Fascism

May 14, 2021

90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine confronts her past by visiting the German concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora where her brother was killed. Colette has won the Academy Award in the category of best documentary short.

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