The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room
Nation of Change
We can't keep ignoring its enormous "bootprint."
50 Years After Chilean Coup, Let’s Remember Pinochet Resisters’ Inspiring Legacy
Truthout
On the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup, let’s follow Pinochet resisters’ example of solidarity in repressive times.
Danny Boyle’s “28 Days Later”
Hollywood Progressive
A Zombie Film that Still Speaks to Our Current World, and with Quite a Bit of Class
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 12, 2023
Portside
Are corporations a woke conspiracy?
‘It Became an Obsession’: The Long Search for the Remains of Pinochet’s Victims
The Guardian
As Chile marks 50 years since the coup, women who have scoured the desert for remains of their husbands fear the brutality of the death squads will be forgotten
Many Senior Citizens Expect To Die With College Loan Debts
The Hechinger Report
With student loan repayments about to restart, more people with ballooning college debt are aging into retirement
The Movement and the Mayor
Hammer & Hope
What does it mean to have Brandon Johnson, a Chicago Teachers Union organizer, in office?
This Week in People’s History, Sept. 12–18
Deadly hurricane in 1928. Slave-catchers stymied (1858). Feds' forgeries flop (1918). Deadly racist church bombing (1963). Settlers take over Cherokee Strip (1893). Thin-skinned cops get served (1994). Eugene Debs speaks truth to power (1918).
After Two Climate-Decimated Harvests, Southern Peach Farmers Wonder How To Regroup
The Guardian
Warmer winters, late freezes and wildly variable rainfall have formed a perfect storm to wreck the one of the region’s favorite fruits
Apartheid by Another Name
il manifesto
The fire in a Johannesburg building killing 73 people is the result of decades of disastrous housing policies and the criminalization of poverty in South Africa.
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