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June 15, 2019

The Roots of the National Strike in Honduras: An Interview with Bayron Rodríguez Pineda

Beth Geglia NACLA

Meeting of the Platform in Defense of Health and Education in Cortes, Honduras.

As Honduran teachers and doctors resist the neoliberal restructuring of health and education services, educator/organizer Bayron Rodríguez Pineda explains the roots of the national strike and the rise of popular power 10 years after the coup d’etat.

June 15, 2019

"Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus" Surreal Comedy of Mass Political Murder

Lucy Komisar The Komisar Scoop

Wildly funny and clever, this is a play a serious theater-goer cannot miss. It's a terrific campy surreal take on murderous war from the point of view of the workers who have to clean up the mess, the bloody bodies of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

June 14, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | June 14, 2019

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Valedictorian Reveals Undocumented Status in Speech. Protest Music in the Era of Trump. Republicans for the Rule of Law. 93PUNX, Vic Mensa | Camp America. It's Even Worse When He Tells the Truth.

Valedictorian Reveals Undocumented Status in Speech

June 14, 2019

Larissa Martinez used her valedictory speech as a chance to paint a different portrait of illegal immigrants

Protest Music in the Era of Trump

June 14, 2019

From Woody Guthrie to the tumultuous 1960s, musicians have responded to the times with music. Musicians across multiple genres are once again responding to the political climate.

Republicans for the Rule of Law

June 14, 2019

These top Republican former law enforcement officials render a verdict

93PUNX, Vic Mensa | Camp America

June 14, 2019

A Trump official says that the immigrant children ripped from their parents are in places just like "summer camp." Yeah, like this.

It's Even Worse When He Tells the Truth

June 14, 2019

If there's something strange in your presidential campaign, who ya gonna call? NOT the FBI.

June 14, 2019

3-D Chess? We Just Want Nancy Pelosi to Connect the Dots.

Elie Mystal The Nation

What I’m hearing and seeing are weak arguments made to gaslight late-night viewers into thinking that everything is under control, even as more and more members of her own caucus manifestly break with her position on impeachment in public.

June 14, 2019

Elizabeth Warren’s Rise Is a Plus for Issue Politics — And a Bad Sign for Billionaires

Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone

If Warren is rising, it’s not because people are tired of Sanders. It’s because they’re pissed at soulless, nationless, money-sucking companies and overpaid, under-prosecuted executives. This is also why Sanders is still very much in contention.