Portside

This last week has been surreal for my family. We lost one of our own in one of the most public ways possible. A man in a car ran down my cousin, Heather Heyer, because she decided to join her fellow Charlottesville residents against the neo-Nazis and white supremacists on their streets.

Following the horrific events precipitated by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members on Saturday in Charlottesville, VA, where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was murdered, President Trump shockingly came out in favor of the alt-right. The response by our community was swift. Some illustrators and designers created work anew, others re-purposed existing political art, illustrations and posters, and these began appearing in online publications and social media.

Saving the land cannot be separated from saving the people, their livelihood, health and the best of their way of life, from the reach of profiteers. The first peoples, the new pioneers of mountain farms, veterans of mining, labor in unions and not, coal-resistance activists have tales that can teach their more modernized would-be helpers. Learn to listen. It will take patience and perseverance to renew coal country, and the rest of the Earth too.

Radical rightists purposefully mix “heritage” with “history,” rhetorically pining for a once proud “white” America. But history proves that America was never white.

Noting that the fearless Dick Gregory had mocked the Outfit as "the filthiest snakes that live on this earth," J. Edgar Hoover wrote a memo to the special agent in charge in Chicago, Marlin Johnson, telling him to "neutralize" Gregory.

As the president vowed to tighten immigration enforcement during his Arizona trip, educators say an epidemic of fear is boosting school absenteeism and leaving millions of children with crippling anxiety.

Supporters say Colin Kaepernick is being blackballed for his advocacy,

Media face the ugly truth; VICE = Fox?; Google memo; Giant rightist media merger; Who’s killing Mexican journalists; Tracking attacks

The president’s decision to expand US military intervention condemns Afghanistan to escalating conflict, and its people to further misery and death.

When Mr. Trump identifies statues commemorating Confederate leaders as essential parts of “our” history and culture, he is honoring that dark period. (The dismantling of Reconstruction and rebirth of White Supremacy) Like all monuments, these statues say a lot more about the time they were erected than the historical era they evoke.