REWIND - A Week of Quotes and Cartoons
Portside
Pope Francis, homelessness, drones, Obamacare, Boxing Day
The Fear Economy
The New York Times
There are many steps that we can take to end that state of affairs, but the most important is to put jobs back on the agenda.
The NSA Paid to Steal Your Private Data
This Can't Be Happening!
A criminal government at work!
'Never Bend': Thousands Protest New Air Base After Okinawa Switch
Common Dreams
Anti-base protester: 'Okinawa residents cannot tolerate the base relocation within the prefecture.
The Right To Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration - a Review
Talking Union, a DSA labor blog
The Obama Administration has produced vast expansion of deportations reaching 409,000 last year, with over 2 million deported since this president assumed office. Increased enforcement has been justified as a device to encourage legislative reform of the immigration system, but it has only increased the deportations and the divisions of families.
Not Working
GoComics
Friday Nite Videos -- Dec 27, 2013
Portside
Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About Injustice. Leonard Cohen: Democracy Is Coming to the USA. What Does the PISA Report Tell Us About U.S. Education? Chiara de Blasio Tells Her Story. Merry Christmas: No More Unemployment Benefits. President Barack Obama - Drop It Like It's Hot.
Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About Injustice
Human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of Black men have been incarcerated at some point in their lives.
Leonard Cohen: Democracy Is Coming to the USA
Leonard Cohen (Live in London, 2008) performs Democracy Is Coming to the USA. "It's coming through a crack in the wall, it's coming from the sorrow in the street."
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