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December 6, 2022

Movements Have a Long History of Playing the Inside-Outside Game Effectively

Andrew Willis Garcés Waging Nonviolence

Strategies that challenge or wield state power may be in tension, but many movements use both simultaneously to transform society.

December 6, 2022

Joe Biden Could Singlehandedly Lower Rents for the Millions Crushed by Them

Fran Quigley Jacobin

Rents are too high. Joe Biden should issue an executive order to lower them

December 6, 2022

Revealing New Evidence in Abu Akleh’s Killing, Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces at ICC

Julia Conley Common Dreams

The news network said the journalist's killing was part of a "wider attack on Al Jazeera, and journalists in Palestine."

December 6, 2022

The Averted National Rail Strike Is a Parable of Contemporary American Capitalism

John Cassidy The New Yorker

Railroads are prioritizing payments to Wall Street stockholders over everything else, including serving the public interest.

December 6, 2022

Going Against Big Tech’s Anti-Union Grain, Microsoft Is Making Good on Its Promise of “Neutrality”

Ananya Bhattacharya Quartz

If the unionization vote passes, it’ll be a landmark win for more than one reason: It would create the largest video game industry union in the United States, and the first official U.S. union under Microsoft.

December 6, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 6, 2022

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Uncontrolled education, trans rights, cleaning up corruption — and other woke agenda items

December 6, 2022

‘The Inspection’ Explores ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Through the Eyes of a Young Black Marine

Rich Juzwiak Jezebel

Director Elegance Bratton tells Jezebel how he, like his film's protagonist, survived homophobia, homelessness, and the military.

October 3, 2014

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Movements Have a Long History of Playing the Inside-Outside Game Effectively

Joe Biden Could Singlehandedly Lower Rents for the Millions Crushed by Them

Revealing New Evidence in Abu Akleh’s Killing, Al Jazeera Sues Israeli Forces at ICC

The Averted National Rail Strike Is a Parable of Contemporary American Capitalism

Going Against Big Tech’s Anti-Union Grain, Microsoft Is Making Good on Its Promise of “Neutrality”

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 6, 2022

‘The Inspection’ Explores ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Through the Eyes of a Young Black Marine

Friday Nite Videos -- October 3, 2014

Subway Flashmob: Bolero

A History Of The Minimum Wage