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I Want My Death to Make You Angry

Emily Pierskalla, RN Minnesota Nurses Association
Letter from a frontline nurse in Minnesota: "I want you to politicize my death. I want you to use it as fuel to demand change in this industry, to demand protection, living wages, and safe working conditions for nurses and ALL workers."

Debating Black Freedom

Robert Greene II Jacobin
Liberator Magazine was one of the most important African American periodicals to be published in the United States during the 1960s. The book under review is the first full-length account of the life and times of this pivotal journal.

Friday Nite Videos -- September 12, 2014

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Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers. James Foley on War. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Finding Krypton. Keith Olbermann on the Ray Rice Situation. Demand A Plan to End Gun Violence.

Abdullah Ibrahim: Cape Town Flowers

South African jazz master Abdullah Ibrahim performs his Cape Town Flowers, an ode to the multicultural influences of his native city
 

James Foley on the Dehumanization of War

James Foley's own words on war, as recorded by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Haskell Wexler while making a film about protests against the 2012 NATO Summit.