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This Week in People’s History, Sept 18–24

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Movie poster for documentary film "The Sorrow and the Pity"
The Sorrow and the Pity Rewrites History (1969), The Dawn of Women’s Suffrage (1893), Millions Protest Global Warming (2019), Thelonious Monk’s Musical Signature (1954), An All-Star Cast Says ‘No Nukes!’ (1979), The Chicago Eight on Trial (1969)

A Prophet for the Poor

Matthew Desmond The New York Review of Books
In order to build a mass movement for economic justice, Reverend William Barber argues, we need to let go of the idea that poverty is an exclusively Black or urban issue.

The Paradox of Progress for Black Americans

Algernon Austin and Dedrick Asante-Muhammad OtherWords.org
This is the best economy for Black Americans in generations, but that’s not enough to close the racial wealth divide on its own.

Pasquale Tridico on Social Justice and Political Change

Stefano Galieni Transform!Europe
We need to realise a project that puts peace and freedom at the heart of EU policy. We must act to ensure prosperity for all, to protect welfare, and to defend labour, which ever since Maastricht has never been sufficiently represented.