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Reflecting on Kobe Bryant

January 31, 2020

What can we learn from a helicopter crash? We could know more than we do and we could use that knowledge to save lives.

The First Rainbow Coalition | Trailer

January 31, 2020

In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party formed alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including Latino group the Young Lords and the southern whites of the Young Patriots. Check local listings on PBS.

The Lost Neighborhood Under New York's Central Park

January 31, 2020

Before Central Park was built, a historically black community was destroyed.

Trump Forwards His Xenophobic Agenda

January 31, 2020

President Trump plans to expand his infamous travel ban with the intention of cracking down on so-called “birth tourism.”

The Times They Are a-Changin' | Bernie Sanders

January 31, 2020

Real change is all around us. Every conversation, protestor, canvasser, donation fuels this movement.

January 31, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | January 31, 2020

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The Times They Are a-Changin' | Bernie Sanders. Trump Forwards His Xenophobic Agenda. The Lost Neighborhood Under New York's Central Park. The First Rainbow Coalition | Trailer. Reflecting on Kobe Bryant.

January 30, 2020

What We Talk About When We Talk About Holocaust Paintings

Anna Ulinich Jewish Daily Forward

The exhibition “Rendering Witness: Holocaust-Era Art as Testimony” demonstrates the power of art. The artists may have been silenced in the homicide of the Nazi 's final solution, but their clandestine art work survives as an outspoken memory.

January 30, 2020

Joe Biden Thinks Coal Miners Should Learn to Code. A Real Just Transition Demands Far More.

Mindy Isser In These Times

I’m a coal miner who’s an environmentalist. But I can see the mistakes in both the coal industry and in the environmental industry. Every time you take somebody’s job, there’s a face behind that, there’s a family behind that.

January 30, 2020

Tidbits - Jan. 30, 2020 - Reader Comments: Impeachment; 'Deal of the Century; Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr; Anti-Semitism on Rise; Germany; Israel - Living by Occupation and the Sword; Charlie Chaplin and Flint Sit-Down Strike; Announcements

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Reader Comments: Impeachment; 'Deal of the Century; Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr; Anti-Semitism on Rise; Germany; Chicago, Israel - Living by Occupation and the Sword; Charlie Chaplin and Flint Sit-Down Strike; Resources; Announcements

January 30, 2020

Readers Respond: An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy

Portside Readers, including: Eisenscher; Collier Lamont; Millstone; Kinnucan; Jones; Young; Krug; Schwartzman; Zeese; Hawkins; Nack; Schwartz; and Markey Portside

Friday Portside posted An Open Letter to the Green Party About 2020 Election Strategy, by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Leslie Cagan, Ron Daniels, Kathy Kelly, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters, and Michael Albert.