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January 12, 2018

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Long Ago, Far Away | Odetta Sings Dylan. Tapper: You Know Who Loved Trump's Comments? Global Responses to Trump's 'Shithole' Remarks. Harry Belafonte | Zombie Jamboree. Camperforce | Documentary.

January 12, 2018

Rev. William Barber: Trump Is a Symptom of a Deeper Moral Malady

Amy Goodman Democracy Now!

Rev. William Barber talks about the Poor People’s Campaign, the Republican Party’s embrace of President Trump’s racist policies, threats to voting rights and the GOP’s remaking of the federal courts.

January 12, 2018

Why Jeff Sessions May Be a Blessing in Disguise for Legal Weed

Jamiles Lartey The Guardian

Don’t panic, legalization advocates say: Jeff Sessions’ anti-marijuana policy will have little practical impact and may even hasten the formal end of prohibition

January 12, 2018

#ShitHoleDon Captures the Disgust

Jon Queally Common Dreams

"We can now we say with 100% confidence that the President is a racist who does not share the values enshrined in our Constitution or Declaration of Independence."

January 12, 2018

How to See a Memory

Helen Shen Nature

Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain, and researchers are starting to work out what one looks like.

Tapper: You Know Who Loved Trump's Comments?

January 12, 2018

CNN's Jake Tapper compares reactions to President's Trump "shithole countries" remarks following the President's tweeted denial.

Long Ago, Far Away | Odetta Sings Dylan

January 12, 2018

Odetta, the musical 'Voice of the Civil Rights Movement,' brings the haunting refrain of one of Bob Dylan's most radical songs about war, inequality and oppression: Things like that don't happen / No more, nowadays.

Global Responses to Trump's 'Shithole' Remarks

January 12, 2018

Here's how the world responded to President Trump's disparaging Jan. 11 remarks about immigrants from "shithole countries," including El Salvador, Haiti and all of Africa.

January 12, 2018

Response

Mary Anna Dunn Tar River Poetry Review

Reflecting contemporary tensions that explode into violence, Virginia poet Mary Anna Dunn explores the failures of imagination to create resolution.

Camperforce | Documentary

January 12, 2018

A short by Jessica Bruder and Laura Poitros (Citizenfour) featuring the stories of some of the thousands of nomadic senior citizens recruited by Amazon to work in its far-flung giant warehouses. With secret camera footage from inside the Amazon empire, and a twist ending.