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March 7, 2022

How Trade Unions Are Helping With Ukraine’s Humanitarian Crisis

RAdu Stochita Jacobin

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has already forced 1 million people to flee the country. Across Eastern Europe, organized labor is helping to welcome refugees.

March 7, 2022

Newly Unionized Wesleyan Student Workers Rally For Better Conditions

Hannah Docter-Loeb Middletown Press

Residential Life students, who recently formed the Wesleyan Union of Student Employees, held its first rally Saturday at North College, where the Office of Residential Life and some administrators’ offices are located.

March 7, 2022

Arms Industry Sees Ukraine Conflict as an Opportunity, Not a Crisis

Jonathan Ng Truthout

NATO contractors openly embrace the crisis in Ukraine as sound business. In January, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes cited “tensions in Europe” as an opportunity, saying, “I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit.”

March 7, 2022

‘Key to White Survival’: How Putin Has Morphed Into a Far-Right Savior

Sergio Olmos The Guardian

The Russian president’s ‘strong man’ image and disdain for liberals has turned him into a hero for white nationalists

March 7, 2022

The History of Sanctions

Nicholas Mulder, Nick Serpe Dissent Magazine

Nicholas Mulder’s account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.

March 7, 2022

Bet on Institution Building, Not Manchin

Katey Lauer The Forge

The culture of urgency is a trap because it keeps us from building enough power to win and it keeps us playing defense. It’s also exactly what the corporate news cycle, digital media platforms, and the race of capitalism teach us to do.

September 13, 2019

Friday Nite Videos | September 13, 2019

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Edward Snowden in Exile: ‘You Have to Be Ready to Stand for Something.’ Musicians Love Making Fun of Bob Dylan. Beto O'Rourke: 'We're going to take away your AR-15.' John Oliver: Filibuster. How Black Americans Were Robbed of Their Land.

September 13, 2019

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: His New Life and Concerns

Ewen MacAskill The Guardian

The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future

Edward Snowden in Exile: ‘You Have to Be Ready to Stand for Something’

September 13, 2019

Edward Snowden has spent the last six years living in exile in Russia and has now decided to publish his memoirs, Permanent Record. The Guardian's Ewen MacAskill, who helped break Snowden's story in 2013, has been given exclusive access to interview him

Musicians Love Making Fun of Bob Dylan

September 13, 2019

What would it sound like if Paul Simon or John Lennon parodied Bob Dylan? Of course it happened, and here's what it sounds like.