The Problem With Community Land Trusts

Olivia R. Williams Jacobin
Acquiring and administering property should not be housing movements’ only goals — advocacy for affordable housing must be coupled with bottom-up control by residents.

Review: A Plant Closing War

Steve Early Labor Notes
At War, a new movie from Cinema Libre Studio, vividly portrays shop floor resistance to corporate power in small-town France.

Benny Morris Reveals More About Cover-Up of The Nakba

Jonathan Ofir Mondoweiss
Morris decries the “idiocy” of the Malmab in hiding these materials, since “the whole story was told and publicized since 1988 in many books in Hebrew and English, from my pen and from others”.

The Book of Palestine: National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations

Ramzy Baroud Palestine Chronicle
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and US President Donald Trump.
Palestinians must write their own book, one guided by the concept of national liberation, not endless negotiations; one predicated on unity, not mortifying factionalism; one that appeals to the global community, not to American handouts.

Friday Nite Videos | February 22, 2019

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Tucker Carlson Totally Loses It in Unaired Interview, Michael Franti & Spearhead | The Flower (feat. Victoria Canal), Documentary | Knock Down The House, Brexit III, Angela Davis Returns to Birmingham

Documentary | Knock Down The House

Knock Down the House follows four women political candidates – a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri – during the 2018 mid-term elections. The film was voted the Festival Favorite Award from among 121 films at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.