Israeli Rightists Push for Takeover of Al-Aqsa Compound

Patrick Strickland Al Jazeera
Encouraged by the most extreme elements in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, ultra-rightist organizations are demanding Israel extend its control over the Temple Mount or Noble Sanctuary, the compound that is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The continuing Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and rightist efforts to change the status of the mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, has spurred violent confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians.

Friday Nite Videos -- October 30, 2015

Portside
Stephen Asks Donald to Put His Millions Where His Mouth Is. Alabama Shakes: Future People. Professors in Poverty. Documentary: Jafar Panahi's Taxi. Bernie Sanders Wants To Make College Tuition Free.

Can Sanderistas Create a True Leftist Movement?

Harold Meyerson The Washington Post
The victory for Sanders' legions in all probability won’t be putting Bernie in the White House, but creating a surging and enduring left. That, in turn, requires them to give as much thought to forming or joining autonomous post-campaign organizations, and envisioning post-campaign mobilizations, as they now do to advancing Sanders’s candidacy. Indeed, they need to start forming such organizations today, while they are together campaigning for Sanders.

Alabama Shakes: Future People

Alabama Shakes has a unique soulful rock sound. This is from their new (second) album, Sound & Color, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200.

Professors in Poverty

Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years and has a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty.

Documentary: Jafar Panahi's Taxi

Shooting almost entirely within a cab circling the streets of Tehran, the great director Jafar Panahi (Offside, This Is Not a Film) offers a multilayered mosaic of life in today's Iran.

Vampire Bats: More Cuddly Than You Think

molneyhamel PLOS One
Vampire bats, unlike werewolves and ghosts, are real critters, and at this time of the year they get lots of mentions. But their image, research shows, doesn't really do them justice. Vampire bats do drink blood, but they are also the most social of bats, cuddling and grooming each other at far higher rates than other bats. And this may be the surprising reason that they're so social.

Amending Wall

Darrel Alejandro Holnes Heart Journal Online
The New York-based poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes addresses the matter of walls--geographic boundaries, borders, fences--that attempt to delineate the peoples on different sides and the ultimate hypocrisy, futility of the effort.