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October 2, 2022

Sidney Poitier Was an Icon. But Oprah Winfrey’s Documentary Sidney Is Too Worshipful a Tribute.

Eileen Jones Jacobin

The new Oprah Winfrey–produced Sidney Poitier documentary, Sidney, is a gushing tribute film, not a fully rounded portrait of a human being who had weaknesses to go along with his many strengths.

October 1, 2022

‘To Liberate Ourselves, We Must Reinvent Work’

Herman Rosenfeld Socialist Project

A review of "Work, Work, Work" by Michael Yates

October 1, 2022

Ben Chavis on the Environmental Justice Movement

Ben Chavis Facing South

Forty-two years ago, North Carolina discovered that a company in the Northeast had dumped tons of polychlorinated biphenyls — PCBs, very cancer-causing carcinogenic substance — along the highways of North Carolina.

October 1, 2022

Defending Workers’ Interests in a Rigged System

Statement of the UE General Executive Board UE

First and foremost, we must remember that our real power lies in our workplaces and in the streets.

October 1, 2022

Poor People Will Be Voting for Their Lives in the Midterms

Rev. Dr. William Barber II and Tope Folarin Newsweek

New poverty data reveals the effectiveness of pandemic aid programs that are now expired. For poor Americans, building on that success is a matter of life and death.

October 1, 2022

Alternatives to Police and Prisons: Activists Share How To Better Address Violence

Teen Vogue Staff, Photography by Nyia Sissac Teen Vogue

"Punitive systems only create more cycles of trauma and violence.”

October 1, 2022

Long Live Jeff Perry

Gene Bruskin The Stansbury Forum

Jeff was a glorious model of a human being. Not a man without flaws, but a man with great passion, intelligence, determination, caring, humility, generosity, and an unwavering drive toward justice.

September 30, 2022

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Sidney Poitier Was an Icon. But Oprah Winfrey’s Documentary Sidney Is Too Worshipful a Tribute.

‘To Liberate Ourselves, We Must Reinvent Work’

Ben Chavis on the Environmental Justice Movement

Defending Workers’ Interests in a Rigged System

Poor People Will Be Voting for Their Lives in the Midterms

Alternatives to Police and Prisons: Activists Share How To Better Address Violence

Long Live Jeff Perry

Friday Nite Videos | September 30, 2022

"Fuck the Election. Let's Get Right to the Violence."

'Hillbilly Elegy' Republican J.D. Vance Exposed