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100 Parkland students travelled 450 miles to the state capital while others at dozens of high schools walked out in support of #NeverAgain

The dramatic growth of YDSA chapters confirms that millennials don’t think capitalism is working for them.

It has become clear that Chicago activists have the ability to rally allies on campuses nationwide for what once would have been a parochial concern.

Internet activity of all visa applicants, visa holders and green card holders is now tracked.

Leaders from the women’s and civil-rights movements, labor unions, environmental-justice groups, the religious community and others announced plans to mobilize in Foley Square on Feb. 24 during a massive, nationwide day of action. The Working People’s Day of Action, convened by the workers’-rights organization Jobs With Justice, will include events in dozens of cities across the country, according to the New York State AFL-CIO.

Portman and her co-star Jennifer Jason Leigh say they only learned about the race of the characters in the film’s source material this week. When asked to comment on the controversy, Portman said, “Well, that does sound problematic, but I’m hearing it here first.” Leigh added, “It’s probably a valid criticism. I didn’t know that.”

Not so neutral; Kremlin gremlins; John Perry Barlow; Bye bye Bibi?; Hello, you must be going; Digitalizing indigenous stories

Why is the NRA so powerful? Hint: it's not just because it has boatloads of money.

Book Review: No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson. By Jeff Sparrow. Melbourne: Scribe (US: Cursor Marketing), 2018. 304pp, $19.95, paperback. Why, 42 years after the death of the multi-talented Robeson, is author Jeff Sparrow still “in search” of him? In part, no doubt, because in the United States, Robeson did not “disappear” so much as he was “disappeared” during the “red scare” of the 1950s. Banned from the public eye and ear in the United States, save to small groups of “red-diaper babies” and old-timers, he was also refused the right to renew his U.S.