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Guantanamera | Playing For Change

April 28, 2017

Starting with Carlos Varela in Havana and featuring over 75 Cuban musicians around the world, from Havana and Santiago to Miami, Barcelona and Tokyo.

Bill Nye at March for Science

April 28, 2017

On Earth Day, April 22, Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” spoke in front of large crowd in Washington DC, declared "Science must shape policy." Official March For Science website.

"President Trump" Crashes The Daily Show

April 28, 2017

Donald Trump (Anthony Atamanuik) of The President Show explains how he'll pay for his U.S.-Mexico border wall, reform taxes and make Comedy Central great again.

Documentary: Oklahoma City

April 28, 2017

Variety: "The complex story of how McVeigh came to be the righteous and violent sociopath he was. He saw himself as a freedom fighter going to war against the evils of big government."

April 28, 2017

California Single-Payer Healthcare Bill Passes First Committee Test

Melanie Mason Los Angeles Times

Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), a coauthor of the bill, said a detailed financial study would be completed in May, before the bill is heard in the Appropriations Committee.

April 28, 2017

Trump Tax Plan: 'Goldman Sachs Populism'

Deirdre Fulton Common Dreams

"It will help private equity managers and people like President Trump"

April 28, 2017

This is the moment for those who work on elections and those turning out in the streets to come together. Grass roots energy is not a force to be “channeled” by a political establishment that has often failed us — it may shape a different politics.

April 28, 2017

Report Prompts Warnings That the Polar Region Is 'Unravelling'

Jeff Tollefson Nature

“The Arctic that you will have by mid-century will be very different from the Arctic that we see today”

April 28, 2017

Where Will You Go When Things Get Worse?

Susan Cohen Portside

Our ship of state, writes Berkeley poet Susan Cohen, may be facing extinction, but there's no practical escape that will suffice; alternatively, we may resist.

April 27, 2017

On April 29, We March for the Future

Bill McKibben The Nation

We'll either save or doom the planet during the Trump administration. Don't sit the Peoples Climate Mobilization out. Trump is either the end of the fight for a working planet Earth - or the moment when that fight turns truly serious. That choice is not up to him. It's up to the rest of us. See you in DC.