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November 25, 2022

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Howard Zinn and Voices of a People’s History of the United States

November 25, 2022

Highlights from a production of Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Howard Zinn, Afre Woodard, Jeff Zinn.

November 25, 2022

‘The US Can Still Become a Fascist Country’: Frances Fox Piven’s Midterms Postmortem

Ed Pilkington The Guardian

While many observers have breathed a sigh of relief over the rout of extreme election deniers endorsed by Trump, and his seemingly deflated campaign launch, the revered sociologist Frances Fox Piven has a more sombre analysis

November 25, 2022

How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement To Be Reckoned With

Nick Engelfried Waging Nonviolence

Even more important than the decisions of the UN climate talks are the next steps of a youth-led movement strengthened by two decades of transformative action

November 25, 2022

The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better

Jamelle Bouie The New York Times

What if lifetime tenure, rather than raising the barriers to corruption, makes it easier to influence the court by giving interested parties the time and space to operate in an era when wealth has an almost unbreakable grip on our politics?

November 25, 2022