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Review: 'I Love Dick' Sketches an Artistic Love Triangle

James Poniewozik The New York Times
Watching “I Love Dick” is like attending an exhibition for which the artist has supplied her own curator’s notes. It’s an experience as much as a story: arresting, disorienting and provocative. It’s also very conscious of explaining to you how and why it arrests, disorients and provokes.

The Right to Strike

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, Peter Kellman Boston Review
Organized labor is being strangled by laws that block workers from exercising the rights to organize, to strike, and to act in solidarity. Unions should respond by building a rights movement, placing the struggle for those rights front and center in all movement activity, including organizing, protest, civil disobedience, political action, administrative advocacy, and litigation.

"Corporate Free" Richmond Candidates Moving Up

Steve Early Beyond Chron
Two Progressive Alliance leaders–city councilors Jovanka Beckles and Gayle McLaughlin–are preparing to run as “corporate free” candidates for higher office.

Basic Income Works

Paul Niehaus, Michael Faye Boston Review
Recipients of basic income continue to work, spend less on vice, and are able to invest in long-term plans.

Amidst Brazil's Political Crisis, an Opportunity for the Left

Alfredo Saad-Filho Open Democracy
Brazilian President Michel Temer is struggling to retain power after the release of a recording that captures him approving hush money for convicted former legislator Eduardo Cunha, his chief co-conspirator in the impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff. Even before the scandal, Temer’s popularity was very low, due to massive opposition to his neoliberal economic reforms. Amidst the chaos, Brazil’s Left has a chance to topple the conspiracy of the elite.

Friday Nite Videos | May 26, 2017

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Stephen Has an Unpopular Opinion on Trump's Budget. Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards Jam. To Donald Trump, from Vicente Fox. Movie: The Zookeeper's Wife. Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues.