I Am Not a Robot
Bennington Review
Not a robot, suggests poet Lisa Allen Ortiz. Prove it and she deftly does.
Labor Organizers Launch a New Model for the Fight Against Private Equity
Truthout
Workers are fighting back against private equity — the ruthless industry that strips and flips companies for profit.
Lessons From Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance
Waging Nonviolence
Activists who took over Barcelona’s City Hall have made lasting progressive gains, while also confronting the limits of being in power.
HomeVestors Praised ProPublica’s Reporting, Then Tried To “Bury It”
ProPublica
The “We Buy Ugly Houses” company held a virtual meeting for its franchises to outline a plan to “minimize visibility” of our investigation.
‘The Forever Prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s Drawings Expose the Depraved US Torture Policy
The Guardian
For 21 years, the Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release.
This Is What Would Happen if Biden Ignores the Debt Ceiling and Calls McCarthy’s Bluff
The New York Times
The current debt ceiling nonsense is a case of one faction of Congress being pitted against Congress itself. It's time to end this absurdity.
Where Are All the Denisovans?
In 2010 geneticists uncovered an entirely new branch of human evolution, which they called the Denisovans. Today I make the argument we have found them. Source.
Native Americans Demand Accountability | Retro Report
Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture. Lesson plan for educators, coming soon.
MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried
Film explores the tragic, but largely forgotten, 1937 incident in Chicago when police shot 40 steel workers and supporters (mainly in the back) and killed ten of them. Commentary by Studs Terkel, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.
The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna
Brothers Luis and Fabian have devoted their lives to music producing inspired by folklore music. Sixteen years ago they established the group named Wuauquikuna.
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