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September 7, 2019

Robert Mugabe Killed the Freedoms He Had Worked So Hard For

Fadzayi Mahere The Guardian

The former Zimbabwean president will always be an African liberation icon, but his brutality will not be forgotten.

September 7, 2019

The Star of the Annual Muslim Convention was a Jewish Man from Brooklyn

Dean Obeidallah CNN

Bernie Sanders has made a concerted effort to meet with and listen to members of the Muslim community, and he has been at the forefront of advocating for our rights. Other 2020 candidates could benefit from taking a cue from him.

September 7, 2019

Struggles against Racism and Exploitation: Lebanon’s Progressive Movements Face Old and New Challenges

Eva Dingel Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Injustice and lack of democratic accountability have deep roots in Lebanon. But there is hope as organizations working together on issues of discrimination and inequality are able to perceive problems intersectionally and support each other.

September 6, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | September 6, 2019

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Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird | "Freedom Is A Verb." Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins. The Laundromat | Netflix. Untouchable | A Hulu Original Documentary. Trump Is Obsessed With Proving Hurricane Dorian's Threat to Alabama.

September 6, 2019

Socialism Used to Be a Dirty Word. Is America Now Ready to Embrace It?

Gary Younge The Guardian

In the fourth part of this series we examine how voters’ feelings on socialism have shifted. Half of Americans under 40 say they would prefer to live in a socialist country

September 6, 2019

Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Break Wall Street's Stranglehold

Elizabeth Warren Medium.com

I am tired of big financial firms looting the economy to pad their own pockets while the rest of the economy suffers. I will stop the looting and make sure Wall Street serves the rest of the economy, rather than the other way around.

September 6, 2019

Billionaires Are a Sign of Economic Failure

Max Lawson Inequality.org

Inherited wealth and crony capitalism have created an aristocratic class that undermines social mobility and democracy

September 6, 2019

NC Court Orders State’s Legislative Districts to Be Redrawn

Gabriella Novello WhoWhatWhy

Republicans are not appealing the court ruling. The state legislature now must draw a nonpartisan map by September 18 — and “in full public view.”

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird | "Freedom Is A Verb"

September 6, 2019

It's a verb, it's a verb, freedom is a verb,
Something never finished, never done.
It's something you must make,
It's something you must take,
It's something you must constantly become

Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins

September 6, 2019

The story of media firebrand Molly Ivins, six feet of Texas trouble who took on the Good Old Boy corruption wherever she found it. Her razor sharp wit left both sides of the aisle laughing, and craving ink in her columns. She knew the Bill of Rights was in peril, and said "Polarizing people is a good way to win an election and a good way to wreck a country."