Hypocrites: Innocents Now Rule!!
Inspired by student outrage at the link between politicians and the National Rifle Association, the poet find hope in the no-longer-so-innocent next generation.
Pete Seeger | Waist Deep In The Big Muddy
50 years ago this week, Pete Seeger returned to the national stage, singing Waist Deep in the Big Muddy on The Smothers Brothers Show - a challenge to the Vietnam War that CBS promptly censored. (Full story here.)
Recalling Pete Seeger’s Controversial Performance on the Smothers Brothers Show 50 Years Ago
The American Prospect
Seeger had been blacklisted as a communist and this gutsy defiance of a corporate media giant marked his return to the mainstream cultural scene.
The Soul-Crushing Legacy of Billy Graham
Rolling Stone
"I would torment myself for another 20 years trying to 'reform,' never quite able to shake the voice of Billy Graham promising me eternal damnation"
The Oligarch, the Escort and the Bureaucrat
Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny alleges a new link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign. (With closed caption translation.)
Russia Is Trying to Bury This Video—And Might Shut Down YouTube to Do It
Mother Jones
An investigation into a deputy prime minister, escorts, and a yacht sends regulators scrambling.
How New York City Won Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Portside
This campaign was years in the making, but Donald Trump's election and the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord spurred the local activism that led to this important victory.
Civil Rights Leader on Student-Led Movements of 1960s and Today
As a student-led movement for gun control sweeps the country, we look back with a leader in the student movement that desegregated the University of Georgia in 1961.
John Oliver | Italian Elections
Italy is in the throes of a turbulent race to elect a new prime minister. John Oliver discusses the colorful contenders and introduces an equally ridiculous candidate.
This Ain't America, Is It?
Montage of images from Occupy Wall Street set to the 1971 song Love, That's America, by Melvin Van Peebles, from the soundtrack of Watermelon Man.
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