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December 2, 2019

Food Waste Is a Huge Environmental Problem. Here Are 5 Ways to Reduce Yours

Jamie Ducharme TIME

Plan your grocery list, avoiding impulse buying or stocking up so much that you can’t use the food by the time it’s going to go bad.

Food waste is a global problem, but the U.S. is a major offender, wasting up to 40% of its food supply each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

December 1, 2019

How Did Plants Conquer Land? These Humble Algae Hold Clues

Carl Zimmer The New York Times

Two algal species share important genes with all modern land

December 1, 2019

These Judges Can Have Less Training Than Barbers but Still Decide Thousands of Cases Each Year

Joseph Cranney ProPublica

South Carolina’s system for magistrate judges is unlike any state in the country, creating fertile ground for incompetence and corruption. Most aren’t lawyers, but their decisions can have lasting effects on the vulnerable people who come before them

December 1, 2019

Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance

Nick Estes / Amy Goodman Democracy Now!

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about Thanksgiving and his book “Our History Is the Future.” He is a co-founder of the indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

December 1, 2019

Where the Bodies Are Buried

Where the Bodies Are Buried Texas Observer

In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.

December 1, 2019

Macron Facing the "December 5th Wall"

Daniel Cirera Portside

Mobilization and strike against pension reform are expected to be massive

December 1, 2019

HBO’s Watchmen Changed Comic Canon Without Changing Anything: The ‘True’ Origin Story of Hooded Justice

Susana Polo Polygon

“This Extraordinary Being” reveals that the show's America’s first costumed crime fighter was William Reeves, the childhood survivor of the destruction of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Black Wall Street, and a queer black man.

December 1, 2019

AFGE’s “Me Too” Moment: When Top Leaders Misbehave, Union Members Pay The Price

Steve Early Portside

A sexual harassment scandal at AFGE headquarters is making the union’s resistance to Trump more difficult.

Gimme Shelter | Playing For Change

February 26, 2016

This song expresses the urgency we all face to unite together as a planet and offers us wisdom with the words, "War, children, it's just a shot away... Love, sister, it's just a kiss away". Dedicated to all the lost, homeless and forgotten people in this world. It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.

February 26, 2016

Friday Nite Videos -- February 26, 2016

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Get Up Stand Up | Song Around The World. The Big Lebowski Silences Donald Trump. Gravitational Waves Hit the Late Show. Trump Ad by the Poorly Educated. Boots Riley Performs "Underdogs."